How about some love for the last place Olympic Trials finishers!

I was at the trials. The woman in last place was preggo. Looked like about 5-6 months. She was getting super loud crowd support.

I’m pretty sure the pregnant runner didn’t finish. I saw her walking in when a lot of females were still on the course.

She did get massive support even while walking in a DNF. Deservedly so.

Hats off to all who showed up at the start line and tried.

On this forum are a lot of people who have never run a marathon and talk sh!t all day long. Putting yourself out there on race day is hard.

The pregnant runner some people saw was likely Maegan Krifchin, formerly of ATC and currently of BAA. She's 7 months pregnant and made it to about mile 18 before calling it.

Yep:

runnersworld.com

For Olympic Trials Couple, Race Will Be One to Talk About for Generations

Matt McDonald is hoping to make the Olympic team. His fiancée, Maegan Krifchin, is running the women’s race—7 months pregnant.

Link:www.runnersworld.com/runners-stories/a...

There was a reporter in Orlando who is doing an article on the last placers at every Olympic Trials. Really looking forward to it.

He's 30 and married to a 35 year old? The other way is normal but that's incredibly odd

I hope that article comes out soon, should be interesting. I was interviewed.

The guy finishing in 2:50 was at least 32 minutes behind his PR. I guess it's an example of just how brutal the marathon distance can be.

2:50 at the trials says you fought hard and it didn’t pan out. I really respect people that finish their races even when they go poorly. I think DNFing unless there is a medical emergency is bad practice. My first and only marathon to date I was on pace to run 2:38 through mile 20, and I barely broke 3:00. There was a specific moment with about 5 miles to go where I realized i’d need to run 5:30s to rally back to my goal, when it was extremely hard for me to run 9:00 pace, I knew it wasn’t going to happen but that’s no excuse to walk off the course. Live by the sword die by the sword brotha

Congrats to all who qualified for and ran in the trials. They all accomplished something 99% of us can only dream of!

or something like stress fracture, muscle pull where you are limping heavily. unless you only have a couple of km to go, it's not smart to carry on.

I’d categorize that under medical emergency but yes

John Stephen Akwharie, Tanzania 1968 Mexico City: The Last African Runner

Well after the victors had finished, been awarded their medals and the stadium cleared out, one African runner approched the finish line, injured and hobbling in pain. When asked what kept him moving forward he replied:

My country did not send me 5000 miles to start the race. They sent me 5000 miles to finish it.

medical emergency - cardiac arrest, get the AED machine here RIGHT NOW 🚑🚑🚑

In that case you may as well celebrate the list of runners that petitioned the start time because of the projected warm temperatures. I wonder how they placed or did they drop out.

shut up

What's the age gap on Wejo and his wife?

Has to be pretty a wide gap if he's over 50, and she gave birth fairly recently.

I mean that's cool, but would you honestly have finished if doing so cost you tens of thousands of dollars?