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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ok, yeah that's insane. No wonder the poor guy dropped from exhaustion

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Probably kidney failure

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Happy Cakeday! 🍰🎂

Kidney failure? Was he chugging wine and mead the whole way, or is that just a result of extreme dehydration?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Muscles break down kidneys get overwhelmed and go into failure. Sometimes (rarely) ultra marathoners will need dialysis and they are running a much shorter distance.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Ahh! Gotcha. Fair enough. I suppose that's actually useful for me to know, thanks!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Rhabdo?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I dunno basically basing this off a bit of running knowledge and something I sorta remembered, probably from an episode of house or some other medical show. I also did a bit of quick googling to validate its a real thing.