Pace Revolution

This weekend it happened again.

In 16 minutes 3 people lost their lives at the Detroit marathon.

Thirty-six-year-old Daniel Langdon collapsed at about 9:02 am on Sunday between the 11 and 12-mile markers and 65-year-old Rick Brown collapsed at 9:17 am, near where Langdon went down. One minute later, 26-year-old Jon Fenlon collapsed just after finishing the 13.1-mile half-marathon.1

When I was watching the news this morning I heard the announcer say sudden death “was rare” during marathon events. I suppose that depends on how you define “rare.”

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A recent story in The New York Times revealed the “newly discovered” importance of C-reactive protein (CRP).

Apparently, a drug company-sponsored study showed that people who had high CRP levels had fewer heart attacks and strokes when taking statins (cholesterol-lowering drugs).

Suddenly, the whole medical community is buzzing about the importance of CRP.

Of course, I’ve been talking about the importance of CRP as an indicator of heart attacks and strokes for years now. But now that mainstream medicine can attach a drug to it, suddenly it is BIG news.

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