What's scorching your groove today?

[Lamplighter]

Our town is built around a lake, and on summer mornings there are a lot of joggers doing the "lake run".
This morning it was the lady's turn. These semi-organized events start at the town mall.

As I was driving in towards town, I met the first bevy of the runners.
...those tall, lanky, lean people with fast twitch muscles that can run forever one just one deep breath.
As I drove along I noticed the women were getting shorter, heavier, and redder in the face.
The further I drove, the more pronounced the changes.
I know I sometimes have a sick sense of humor, and the gradient started tickling me.
But there it was.

Then I came upon what turned out to be the last runner.
She was very heavy set, red of face, bent over breathing heavily
through her mouth, and obviously in distress.
I stopped to ask if she was OK, and she was not.
She agreed to a ride back to the mall to call her family.

So now it's doesn't seem quite so funny, and it bothers me that these
health-seeking runners would run off and leave someone it that sort of situation.

[Griff]

In their defense, she probably fell off the back of the pack well before she was in trouble, but she shouldn't have been exposed like that. You'd like to put the onus on the individual but sometimes folks really don't know what the are or are not capable of. Honest doctors could help the situation but some are afraid to alienate patients.

Folks really need to stick with controlled situation exercise until they're fit enough to feel their limitations and take reasonable chances. This is a worry for me at the fencing club as we're all just amateurs we don't have any physiologists among us. We could get someone with a health issue they hide or are unaware of and end up with a tragedy.

I find your gradient comment amusing. btw