Sam Norton, a young runner from Massachusetts, collapsed and died at the 23rd mile of the Santa Rosa Marathon in California. He was running for a nonprofit supporting substance use disorder treatment and prevention
Sam Norton began making friends he would have for the rest of his life while he was a freshman at St. John’s High School in Shrewsbury in 2011, forming a tightknit circle of boys from his class and girls from their unofficial sibling school, Notre Dame Academy in Worcester.
Sam Norton, 26, took an interest in running about two years ago but was ultimately diagnosed with Rhabdomyolysis, a rare condition in which damaged muscle rapidly breaks down and releases a damaging protein into the blood.