As people may still be finalizing their athletic goals for the year 2012, many of you will buy a marathon entry, whether it is Chicago, Los Angeles, Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Paris, London or many others, you will be at the starting line of this mythical event.

Recent debates seem to have underlined the potentiality for severe injuries and even deadly outcomes for people participating in such events. TIME just published an article clarifying the argument, marathon are in fact not that deadly.