Yesterday, November 3rd, the USATF held trials in New York City's Central Park to determine who would represent the US Olympic Team for the marathon in 2008. Unfortunately, a 28 year old runner, Ryan Shay (click here for latest news) collapsed 5 miles into the event and died.
This is obviously a huge tragedy on a day that should have been filled with joy and excitement. An autopsy is being conducted today (Sunday November 4th) to determine the cause of death--most likely an undiagnosed heart problem.
Shay was a 2002 Notre Dame grad, and his wife was a collegiate distance runner for Stanford.
My thoughts and prayers go out to his wife and the family, and I hope you all would send some good thoughts and prayers their way also.
More later...
Sunday, November 4, 2007
Olympic Marathon trials
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So young and so apparently healthy to have collapsed. Very sad. Given my mountain biking, I am always gone for a few hours on 20-30 mile jaunts up in the mountains, and even though I'm in what I consider pretty good shape, I do think about what would happen if something happened to me up there. Best thoughts to his family. It's an upsetting and confusing loss.
This is such a sad thing---and for it to have happened in front of so many people is so awful. I definitely feel so bad for his family no matter what the cause of his death. (I haven't checked on the latest news yet)
And like Rubink said, I know all of us exercise on our own a lot of the time, how equally scary would it be to have that have happened when he was alone. It's just too bad that they couldn't help him--even with paramedics right there.
--snow
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