>An "experienced runner" who completed Sunday's London Marathon in under three hours died as he travelled home from the race.
>Steve Shanks, 45, from Bingham, Nottingham, had completed "many" marathons and finished the event in the capital in 2:53:26.
>In a statement posted on social media, his wife Jess said his passing was "out of the blue" and that he had been "returning home having spent the day participating" in London.
There are few things more suspiscious to me than pricks who post news stories on here with no opinion of their own alongside. I think the OP should be shot through the face for subversion, but unfortunately the moderators have gone soft. They used to call him Purpz, but now they're saying "Mr Softy", it's true.
>Not the possibility that the fella just ran 26 miles.
In his mid-40s, no less.
I'm about that age, and while I still like to go out for a strenuous ten-mile mountainbike ride once or twice a week, I wouldn't kid myself into thinking that I could run a marathon.
It's one thing to want to stay in shape in middle age, and you should. But you also need to know your limits. There are 50 year olds who still run marathons or half marathons, and it can be done. Just saying, the risk of something going wrong and your body just not being able to take it is much higher at 45 than at 25.
