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London Marathon usually has one or two peeps keel over. To be expected with the large numbers and physical exertion.
"The overall mortality rate from the 20 years is one in 67,414, or roughly one death for every two million miles run." Source: http://www.pponline.co.uk/encyc/london-marathon-what-we-know-about-the-incidence-of-injury-illness-and-death-in-the-london-marathon-881
I read somewhere (trans: I can't find the reference) that the majority of post-mortems of London Marathon fatalities show congenital heart defects that simply had never been diagnosed (mainly because there was no reason to go looking for them).
If you're young (14-35) and want to get checked out then try: http://www.c-r-y.org.uk/ for a screening (I had one about 4 or 5 years ago - and got the all clear - as Mrs GB was worried about the amount of long distance riding I was doing).
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If I had a heart defect I'm pretty sure I would've died already.
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Based on 23 years’ experience, the approximate overall risks of running the Marathon are:
contact with St John: 1 in 6; contact with a hospital accident and emergency department: 1 in 800; hospital admission: 1 in 10,000; death: 1 in 67,414 – a risk which is comparable to many daily activities.
hippy
London Marathon usually has one or two peeps keel over. To be expected with the large numbers and physical exertion.