Former Wired Editor Dies in Race

A few years back, Wired magazine deputy editor Bill Goggins attended the annual TED conference in Monterey, California. He spent the first day in sessions with a cast of tech and entertainment industry luminaries -- Jeff Bezos, Jeffrey Katzenberg and Matt Groening were on hand that year -- and then stayed up into the early hours of the next morning talking, laughing and drinking with colleagues and new friends. He slept maybe three hours and was up in time for the official TED 5K foot race, which started at about 6:30 a.m. Goggins blew everyone away, winning the 3.1-mile race at a pace well under 6 minutes a mile.

It was vintage Goggins: ravenous intellectual and cultural engagement, an indefatigable love of socializing and seemingly effortless athleticism. So it came as a terrible shock on Sunday when news came that Goggins had died running the San Francisco Marathon. He was 43. He collapsed after he passed the 24-mile mark of the 26.2-mile race. Bystanders came to his aid with CPR, and he was treated by paramedics and taken to San Francisco General Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 9:26 a.m. The cause of death is unknown; details are expected from the medical examiner.