The 38-year-old old Ni participated in the "Shanghai International Marathon", encountered the most critical situation in the marathon "cardiac arrest", after waking up, he lost all the memory from the 7th to 9th. No other problems were found.
Lao Ni's career is a drainage design, like him, the urban middle class, is filling China's marathon course. 2015, the country's marathon races from the previous year's 51 jumped to 134. By 2016, the rate of growth continued to exceed 100 percent to 328 races, with 2.79 million entries.
Square dancing allows many middle-aged and older women to find a collective belonging, while marathons fit the values and pursuits of more youthful city dwellers: health, vitality, and transcending oneself. These runners buy professional running shoes, quick-drying clothes, sun hats, sports sunglasses and music players, and afford intercity and even overseas travel.
The modern marathon is so healthy and fashionable that one almost forgets that, legend has it, the marathon originated in a tragedy more than 2,500 years ago: a warrior, exhausted from continuous running, collapsed and died suddenly after delivering a message of victory.