shiwani | Shared With: Everyone - Dec 08 2006 | heart, running, news
Really interesting article about running marathons as maybe being too much of a seemingly good thing...
Quoted: After years in which almost no deaths were attributed to heart attacks in this country’s major marathons, at least six runners have died in 2006.
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