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ALL THE WAY BACK Runner completes race of a lifetime in East Valley BY ERIC SMITH TRIBUNE
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oseph Marquez was stretching last weekend prior to the BMO Harris Bank Phoenix Half Marathon in Mesa. His mind was unsettled. “It wasn’t bad nervousness; it was, just, I wanted to do well. I wanted to finish,” he said. Last year, the same race nearly finished him. Marquez collapsed at the end of the 2015 event, the victim of a massive heart attack. At one point in the hospital, he was clinically dead for 19 minutes. Mile Seven Marquez, 58, who lives in Ahwatukee, started running about five years ago as a way to improve his health, and as the miles went by last year, he was doing fine. Then came mile seven. Thats’ when things got hazy. Marquez doesn’t remember much after that. What he
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does recall comes not from personal recollection but from others recounting what happened after he collapsed after crossing the finish line in just shy of two hours. “There was no pain in the whole thing,” Marquez said. “There was no pain before I collapsed, and there was no pain even when I was in the hospital. There was nothing. I didn’t feel any pain at all.” Immediately after his body crumpled to the ground, doctors at the finish line medical tent began life-saving measures. Dr. Rick Averitte, who was working at the medical tent that day, was the first person to begin attending to Marquez. “When they rolled him in (Marquez) was completely unresponsive. He’d lost all of his color. He was kind of a gray or blue color,” Averitte See Cover Story on page 8
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