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Los Angeles Marathon

Video: Support @Flap – Gregory Flap Cole in the Los Angeles Marathon

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Here I am finishing the 2011 Los Angeles Marathon in the rain

Please support me in my seventh Los Angeles Marathon.

Check out this video from ASICS, a Los Angeles Marathon sponsor:

Never run a marathon alone, thanks to the Asics ‘support your marathoner’ program

So, how can you support me at the Los Angeles Marathon?

  • Go here to the ASICS Support Your Marathoner Website.
  • Search for me under Friends Find runners: Gregory Cole, Los Angeles Marathon Bib Number 12852.
  • Upload your text, Photo, or Video onto their website.
  • Your submission will be displayed on the large video screens throughout the race on ASICS’ large video displays.

And, thank you!

If you don’t want, to go to the ASICS site, please send me a text or a photo text on Marathon Day, Sunday, March 18 DIRECTLY. You know where to find my mobile number.

The race will begin around 7:30 AM Pacific Daylight Time.

Race Day tracking will be here starting on the 13th and you can sign up here.

Thanks again…..
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Video: Why Run the Los Angeles Marathon?

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Because it is there? Nope….

The 2012 Los Angeles Marathon will be another celebration of a healthy lifestyle for me.

And, I thank God every day for the ability to participate in this event.

The LA Marathon course is pretty cool as well – Dodger Stadium to the Sea in Santa Monica.

March 18th is fast approaching and I am really getting excited.

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Los Angeles Marathon

Los Angeles Marathon 2012: Support Your Marathoner

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Never run a marathon alone, thanks to the Asics ‘support your marathoner’ program

This is a neat endeavor by ASICS who are the new sponsors of the Los Angeles Marathon. Watch the video above and you will get an idea about the program which was started last Fall at the New York City Marathon.

So, how can you support me at the Los Angeles Marathon?

  • Go here to the ASICS Support Your Marathoner Website.
  • Search for me under Friends Find runners: Gregory Cole, Los Angeles Marathon Bib Number 12852.
  • Upload your text, Photo, or Video onto their website.
  • Your submission will be displayed on the large video screens throughout the race on ASICS’ large video displays.

And, thank you!

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Los Angeles Marathon

Los Angeles Roadrunners Run/Walk 5 at Dodger Stadium – February 4, 2012

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Los Angeles Dodger Stadium and the congregating Los Angeles Roadrunners

The training for the Los Angeles Marathon on March 18th this week was HILL training – meaning running the hills around Dodger Stadium. The course was a little over 5K and Run/Walk 5 ran the course three times, reversing the order each time.

Here is head pace leader Walt’s blog piece on the run.

Now, for my photos:

Director of Training of the LA Roadrunners, Rod Dixon (see his first place finish in the New York City Marathon below)

Tara, my running partner and I separated and I ran with the main group for 2- 5K cycles and met up with her for a two mile walk around Dodger Stadium.

Tara and me

Here is my wife, Alice and me prior to the run ( I ran with her for the first two cycles):

After running, sometimes you feel you have the world (or at least downtown Los Angeles) in your own palms:

Here are Joel and Minerva who met at run/Walk 5 last LA Marathon season and now run together. Who says there is NO love in running?

After running, the group headed over to Walt’s office where we enjoyed bagels, eggs, sausages and good company.

Walt and Alice

Did I mention the bagels?

No cream cheese for me though, Minerva

Nancy, one of the Ronnie’s Diner gang and R/W 5 Pace Leader

Mary who is REALLY smiling because she was working with a former U.S. Senator last week. Mary is also a Ronnie’s gang member and R/W 5 Pace Leader

Here are some more photos and the rest, I promise, I will post on Flickr, Picasa and Facebook.

Kristi

Tara and Maria Elena

Back to the beach (Venice Beach and Santa Monica) next Saturday and a 20 mile long run. March 18th is fast approaching.
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Does Running A Marathon Pose a Heart Risk?

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This is me finishing the Los Angeles Marathon in 2011

No, according to a new study.

Despite well-publicized stories of people dropping dead during or after running a marathon, the race isn’t all that risky, researchers found.

Among nearly 11 million marathoners and half-marathoners, only 59 went into cardiac arrest during a race, for an incidence rate of just 0.54 per 100,000 participants, Aaron Baggish, MD, of Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, and colleagues reported in the New England Journal of Medicine.

“Event rates among marathon and half-marathon runners are relatively low, as compared with other athletic populations, including collegiate athletes, triathlon participants, and previously healthy middle-aged joggers,” they wrote.

Men, however, were more likely to have an event than women, they noted.

In 2010, about two million people around the U.S. ran long-distance races, a figure that more than doubled from 10 years prior. But that growth has been accompanied by a rise in race-related heart problems and in news headlines about the risk of sudden death.

So the researchers created the Race Associated Cardiac Arrest Event Registry (RACER) to assess the incidence and outcomes of cardiac arrest associated with long-distance races in the U.S. between Jan. 1, 2000 and May 31, 2010.

The database included a total of 10.9 million runners; only 59 had suffered a cardiac arrest, for an overall incidence rate of 0.54 per 100,000 participants, the researchers reported. Their median age was 42.

A total of 71% of those cases were fatal.

As expected, rates of cardiac arrest were significantly higher during marathons than half-marathons (1.01 versus 0.27 per 100,000, respectively, P<0.001), as was the incidence of sudden death (0.63 versus 0.25 per 100,000, P=0.003).

I will be run/walk/running my 8th Los Angeles Marathon on March 18th.

By the way, I have already been cleared to run the race by my physician.

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