the beagle wrote:
drag along date wrote:
A runner, yes. That happened in a 8k trail race about 20 years ago, one that I worked. The person trapped was a female who just gave up trying to get through less than 1/2 of the way through about 100 yards of sticky, sandy mud. Just nasty stuff. It had poured rain the entire week and super muddy section apparently got deeper than expected. It was one foot deep. Runners who made it through were either disgusted or happy as could be that they had conquered the nasty part.
Anyway, the fairly good female runner just stood less than half way through looking totally exhausted, bent down with her hand on her knees. And seems ready to cry. ... Along came a 20 something year old marine who looked very fit. He stopped and spoke with her. The next thing you know is he has her on his back as he continues through. But she fell off his shoulders ... no arm strength ... and into the mud. He was not deterred. He grabbed her arm and started dragging her across the mud. She did care. She just wanted to get out of that section.
That event was hilarious. There was still a one mile loop to cover that went along a different track. She quite the race. Took water a lot of the water we had for runners, gulped several bottles, and used several more to "hose" herself off. She then wandered off to her car, which was nearby, and she fell asleep.
Now that I recall that race I think part of her problem was too much drinking and staying up too long the night before. (Like Walmsley did at Western States several years ago ... too drunk to run). Drinking and exhaustion and dehydration can cause someone too severely bonk on a run. Tale told.
If she got stuck, she's not a runner.
How is she not a runner?