{"id":16322,"date":"2025-12-03T06:32:39","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T22:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=16322"},"modified":"2025-12-03T06:32:39","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T22:32:39","slug":"runners-face-more-heat-higher-costs-can-more-also-be-done-to-prevent-race-injuries-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=16322","title":{"rendered":"Runners face more heat, higher costs. Can more also be done to prevent race injuries, deaths?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Popular races that have seen more participants include the Great Eastern Women\u2019s Run, from 9,000 runners in 2023 to more than 12,000 this year, and the 2XU Compression Run, from 18,500 runners to more than 20,000 over the same period.<\/p>\n<p>Then there is the nation\u2019s flagship marathon event, the Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon, scheduled for this weekend with 60,000 runners expected, up from more than 55,000 last year and 44,000 in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>More runners joining races does not only mean more injuries. In some cases, there have been fatalities \u2014 at least nine publicly documented cases in Singapore\u2019s stand-alone road runs since 2007.<\/p>\n<p>The last two deaths after a race were within six months of each other: this April and last December, the latter occurring at the previous edition of the Singapore Marathon.<\/p>\n<p>There have since been changes concerning race safety, finds out the programme, Talking Point, in a two-part special on the risks involved and what it takes to prepare for these races, for both runners and organisers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/cna-insider\/runners-race-prevent-heat-injuries-deaths-half-marathon-training-5497601\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Popular races that have seen more participants include the Great Eastern Women\u2019s Run, from 9,000 runners in 2023 to more than 12,000 this year, and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16323,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dam.mediacorp.sg\/image\/upload\/s--tZ6Pl8yz--\/c_fill,g_auto,h_676,w_1200\/fl_relative,g_south_east,l_mediacorp:cna:watermark:2021-08:cna,w_0.1\/f_auto,q_auto\/v1\/mediacorp\/cna\/image\/2025\/12\/03\/tp_race_part2_5d.jpg?itok=7no7vyFx","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4113,9906,3507,568,1412,6394,10712,570,11510],"class_list":["post-16322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-news-sg-global","tag-costs","tag-deaths","tag-face","tag-heat","tag-higher","tag-injuries","tag-prevent","tag-race","tag-runners","wpcat-2-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}