Buffalo Boy's Blog

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071009/ap_on_re_us/massive_marathons

Look, I understand the concern for peoples well being but this article takes it a little too far. The Chicago Marathon was recently marred by the excessive heat sending hundreds sick to hospitals and resulting in one death.

So what. Seriously? Thousands of runners and only one death?

I don't mean to sound cruel or unphased by someone dying, but we are in a country of fat, over weight people and they want to discourage people from participating in physical fitness?

People should be commended for running in a marathon, not told it may be hazardous to your health. The weather in Chicago this time of year should be much cooler. Who knew it was going to be mid July in the early part of October?

Give this marathons are dangerous thing a rest already. The news will latch onto anything to get a headline and they did with this. Its probably on that whining bitch Nancy Grace's show right now. The media makes it sound like marathons will kill you if you are not careful, which may be true if not trained properly. Of all the marathons that go on in the US every year, when was the last person who died as the result of one?