nono wrote:
your posting lacks respect and is at a detriment to the quality of the board. please stop embarrassing yourself
Now, THAT is funny!
Holy crap! 20 dead and 1 missing in Chinese 100km ultra
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A. Moran wrote:
fisky wrote:
Hypothermia can hit REALLY fast. Thirty years ago, I was running down an isolated dirt road in Nebraska into a glorious sunset. It was maybe 30 degrees when I started. As the sun set, it started to get a lot colder and a wind came up. I decided to turn around. At that point, I realized that I'd been running with a tailwind and now it was a strong headwind. My top was soaked with sweat and offered little protection. I turned sideways and crabbed into the wind with my arms across my chest, but within a couple of minutes, I couldn't run! I wanted to run, but my legs wouldn't run. They just wouldn't move. It was like trying to run in waist-deep water.
I realized this was very serious. There was no way I could keep going the five miles to get back home. I decided to run away from home with the wind at my back to the nearest crossroad and then cut across to the main highway a mile away. Once I turned around, I could manage a slow jog. That last mile took forever. I can STILL remember running for what seemed like forever and looking up and seeing the main highway lights still impossibly far away. I vowed to not look up again. Just keep moving. When I made it to the main road, there was no traffic, but there was a convenience store. The owner gave me coffee and let me use his phone to call my wife.
I only had to cover maybe a mile and a half on a flat road after the weather suddenly changed on me.
Is this one of the 200 tips a runner should know?
Yes. Always have a coffee in the middle of your run. Tip #127
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Makes you wonder about things you may not normally wonder about. Who is in charge of these kinds of races? In this case at least who was in charge of organizing this race? What safety considerations were there on the part of those organizers? I have not yet read a great deal about the incident ( and at this time it is some 6 months ago and also I have not read every post in this discussion), but this ultramarathon was either carried out before with the same route or it was not. If it was a new ultramarathon route and location, then what experience or qualifications did the director(s) have? I hear that not a lot of medical or rescue personnel were put along the course. After there were reports of runners in distress then it was hard for rescuers to get to the location(s) to reach the runners.
And by the way, what about other running organizations such as NYRR and NYCRUNS and BAA a and whatever else? Are there any kinds of legal oversight on them? Do they have to consider safety of runners and spectators and even medical or rescue personnel? Do other countries have more lax regulations regarding running clubs that organize marathons and ultra-marathons?
Reportedly the main person supposedly responsible for the organizing of the disastrous China ultramarathon died by "falling off a high rise building" and the "circumstances surrounding his death are not clear." Hmm suicide maybe?
I would say that the entire incident and incidents surrounding it just leave a lot of questions to be answered but probably won't get answered.
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Wow, that Chinese-translated story sounds so tragic and horrifying. What a sad loss of life and running talent.
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fisky wrote:
Hypothermia can hit REALLY fast. Thirty years ago, I was running down an isolated dirt road in Nebraska into a glorious sunset. It was maybe 30 degrees when I started. As the sun set, it started to get a lot colder and a wind came up. I decided to turn around. At that point, I realized that I'd been running with a tailwind and now it was a strong headwind. My top was soaked with sweat and offered little protection. I turned sideways and crabbed into the wind with my arms across my chest, but within a couple of minutes, I couldn't run! I wanted to run, but my legs wouldn't run. They just wouldn't move. It was like trying to run in waist-deep water.
I realized this was very serious. There was no way I could keep going the five miles to get back home. I decided to run away from home with the wind at my back to the nearest crossroad and then cut across to the main highway a mile away. Once I turned around, I could manage a slow jog. That last mile took forever. I can STILL remember running for what seemed like forever and looking up and seeing the main highway lights still impossibly far away. I vowed to not look up again. Just keep moving. When I made it to the main road, there was no traffic, but there was a convenience store. The owner gave me coffee and let me use his phone to call my wife.
I only had to cover maybe a mile and a half on a flat road after the weather suddenly changed on me.
Helpful to hear the story, fisky, and glad you made it and are still around to offer helpful advice on some of my anonymous posts and I’m sure on those of others on here as well.
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Organisers of a 2021 ultramarathon in north-west China during which 21 runners died in extreme weather conditions have been sentenced to years in prison for their roles, state media reported.
Five individuals involved in planning the ill-fated event were given jail terms ranging from three to five and a half years by a court in Baiyin, a city in Gansu, the province where the deaths occurred, the state news agency Xinhua reported late on Friday.
In May 2021, the 100km (62-mile) cross-country mountain race turned deadly as freezing rain, high winds and hail hit the competitors.
The five defendants were convicted for “organising a large-scale event that led to a significant safety incident”, said Xinhua.
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Thanks for the update on this.
I still don't understand how so many people had to die there. I can see one or two but 21?
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Sprintgeezer wrote:
With Covid "over," that's a new way to reduce their population.
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Josh Cocks wrote:
With Covid "over," that's a new way to reduce their population.
It’s not over. The whole thing is a hoax in our best opinion.
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