How I Got Hypothermia At The Los Angeles Marathon
The story of how my dream of going 3:30 ended with me covered in human bubble wrap in an ER while trying to explain to my mom how to message people on Facebook.
Ethiopian runner Markos Geneti shattered the Los Angeles Marathon course record by two minutes on Sunday. Joeseph D’Amico ate only McDonalds for 30 days before the race and set a personal record of 2:36:14. Heck, a 400-pound Sumo wrestler set the record for being the heaviest person to complete the LA Marathon—ever. It’s like no one cared it was the stormiest day in the city’s history with 2.54 inches of rain pummeling downtown L.A.—an inch more than the previous record set in 1943—and wind gusts of up to 40 miles per hour. Except the reported thousands of runners evaluated for hypothermia and the 26 runners taken to the hospital.
I was one of those 26 people who got hypothermia on a 50-degree day in Los Angeles. Click here to read the story of how my dream of going 3:30 ended with me covered in human bubble wrap in an ER while trying to explain to my mom how to message people on Facebook.