Profiling Collapsing Half Marathon Runners—Emerging Risk Factors: Results from Gothenburg Half Marathon Under several serious diseases, arrhythmia and heat stroke are two important causes of death in long-distance races.Clinically, a collapse could be the first sign of these serious states and mimic the more frequent and benign-related collapse at a stamina load.Several risk factors have been given in the literature. It was a qualitative study N to find a perceived risk profile during runners collapsed during the Gothenburg Half Marathon (2010-2017) and transported to the nearest hospital with an ambulance. Collaborating runners do not seem to be able to retire despite exhaustion from the run.They feel the pain, but are unable to make sense to make sense to adapt their pace and deal with other influences.Consequently, they do not overcome the problem and do not rate the situation. These individual mental properties can indicate a unique profile for collapsing runners.
Targeted information before the race aimed at mental readiness and specific information from a long-distance race could be a necessary step to avoid life-threatening complications. The whole article can be found under https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4663/8/1/2