Oh wow, that is terrible.Do we know how fast he was running at that point. I wonder if the sub 3 2 weeks ago had any connection to trying to go again soon after and if there was any residual damage to the cardio vascular system that needed more healing. He won't be the first nor last to dive into a second event ignoring stuff not working perfectly from the first one (if that was even the case).

No splits available on the London Marathon website for him.

Very warm, but they provided lots of water. Wonder why that might be an issue...

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The article says it was 75 degrees F (24C), which is not very hot at all

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I had friends running the race and they mentioned it being 77 degrees F so similar and indeed, not very hot at all.

It was unusually warm In UK last week.

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Deceptively slow.

It's hot for the UK, and we've just had pretty much 5-6 consistent months for it being at least 10*celsius less.

Are you inferring hyponatremia?

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Unusually warm for the location and for a marathon, and they have lots of water for the runners. So, yeah.

Of course, nobody knows right now.

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There could be a lot of things going on here. I imagine that sub 3 hour effort was an all out one, so he would have still had all those heart attack markers still roaming around in his blood, and certainly not fully recovered from that effort.

And 77 degrees is hot for a lot of people, it is for me. It is not for those that thrive in 90 degree weather, but I thrive when it is 50, so that would have been really hot for me. And if he was going for it again, well he was just stacking on top of the pseudo heart attack he had just had two weeks earlier.

And lastly there is the celebrity element of this whole thing and the possible ego involved. I just wish in all these types of deaths that there would be an automatic drug test. I know the families don't care, or really want to know. But like with all the young cyclists deaths making a comeback, I think it would be in the pubic's interest to have this out there as a deterrent to others not to play around with this stuff..So we are just left to wonder if it was just the obvious circumstances that killed him, and not something else that could have been involved.

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This was the warmest weekend, so yup, people are not yet acclimatized.


Of course, there is a huge amount of variation between "not warm at all" for some people vs. others. Even if 74 sounds fine, it will be a shock to anyone if you are doing a marathon in in while all of your training was 10+ degrees cooler.

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Go to Neahle's #3 post, he has a few of the recent cycling deaths, and of course there is the one the OP is about. There are more too, I hear all the time, but they just don't make much news unless they are known or it happens in a spectacular way..



https://forum.slowtwitch.com/...ring=nealhe#p6604616

Very sad.

His justgiving fund now just over £60k and seems he was running for charity for his late father.

https://www.justgiving.com/...pbell-LondonMarathon

This is really sad. Masterchef Professionals is one of the few programs I watch, and Matt Campbell was a standout contestant in the last series. Extremely innovative, in one round he blew away professional food critics with a miso soufflé and kefir ice cream that looked like a minimalist sculpture in white. In another, he likely brought most viewers close to tears with the nature inspired homage to his father that he cooked, including ingredients such as edible moss. That he was kicked out before the final seemed a terrible misjudgement in the series. Regarding Monty's insinuation, I'm not buying it in this case; indeed I find it inappropriate. Campbell was not a celebrity chef, but a professional chef who competed in a demanding cooking competition. In the series he was visibly not driven by ego, but entered with a goal of proving that healthy and ethical cooking could be merged with haute cuisine.

What is ethical cooking?

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Nailed it.