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Is the Marathon likely to kill you?: Fraught with danger or fraught with fear?
Author(s) -
Cheah Benjamin
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
significance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.123
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1740-9713
pISSN - 1740-9705
DOI - 10.1111/j.1740-9713.2012.00555.x
Subject(s) - amateur , statistician , spark (programming language) , history , evening , psychology , medicine , computer science , archaeology , pathology , programming language , physics , astronomy
Inspired by the Olympics, more and more people are taking up long‐distance running. But reports of people suddenly dying of cardiac arrest during marathons spark fears. How dangerous is a marathon for an amateur? Benjamin Cheah , statistician and occasional half‐marathon runner, seeks reassurance.