video of exhausted runner

Japanese Ekiden Race, I think it is the Hakone Ekiden from earlier this week.

wow, I don't think I will ever NOT finish a workout or race ever again.

Looked like he was pretty close to the finish. Were his teammates crying because the guy was in position to win?

Had he used my product, he would not have been nearly as floppy.

This is Hiroyuki Ono, one of the two star runners for Juntendo University. This video is from the first day of the Hakone Ekiden, Jan. 2 `08, the Japanese men`s university championships and the most popular race in Japan. Juntendo were the defending champions. Ono was 460m from the finish of the 23.4 km final leg of the day and had just run up a 16 km long hill with 874m of elevation gain and then down more than 100m over 1.5 km. Hakone is a 2-day race, so the remaining members of the team were eliminated from the race. Organizers let them run in the end but did not count them in the competition.

serious question...How do you run yourself to that point in a probably half marathon distance? Did he just go out way to hard? I don't think I could push myself to that point where my legs were involuntarily shaking...

maybe he was sick? for all we know he could have had food poisoning the night before. I've seen footage of people doing the death crawl in Ironman, but not for a race that short.

in any case, that's pretty core.

I was torn between a sick feeling watching this and wanting to cheer for the guy even though it was on the computer screen. A train wreck to watch but thats won tough s.o.b. I mean thats awesome its guts like that that make me love this sport.

He might have been sick, but I was under the impression that the runners race multiple legs of an Ekiden style relay race. So this was the last leg, ~24k long, but maybe he raced a bunch of miles the previous days? If that's the case, then I can see why staying awake for 2 days straight and running for different lengths of time at different times of day could really take a toll.

clarksonxc wrote:

He might have been sick, but I was under the impression that the runners race multiple legs of an Ekiden style relay race. So this was the last leg, ~24k long, but maybe he raced a bunch of miles the previous days? If that's the case, then I can see why staying awake for 2 days straight and running for different lengths of time at different times of day could really take a toll.

Hakone is 2 days, but each runner only runs once. This was the end of the first day. Word in the papers here the next day was that Ono suffered severe dehydration on the 874 m climb. Juntendo were the defending champs but were in 17th place when Ono started the anchor leg. Beyond this, he had the pressure of being Juntendo's replacement for Masato Imai, the runner who set the stage record on this mountain climb leg three years in a row before graduating. Ono had moved up to 12th and was running 3rd fastest of 20 runners on the stage at the time that he got into trouble. I think everything put together just made him go a little too far.

zatopek wrote:

serious question...How do you run yourself to that point in a probably half marathon distance? Did he just go out way to hard? I don't think I could push myself to that point where my legs were involuntarily shaking...

It`s a little over a half marathon, but the thing that makes this stage so hard is that it is up a mountain. 874m elevation gain to about the 19 km point, then a steep, twisting downhill with about 100m elevation loss over the course of 2 km, then about 2 km of undulation to the finish. Ono was on the last bump. I ran this stage three days before this year's ekiden and can attest that it is much, much, much harder than a half marathon.

That is so cool that a runner could push himself that hard. Any more videos like that out there?

I have seen a few others but don't remember where they are at. A kid from royal high school bonked in the 3200 pretty hard. Same thing happened to a kid from fort collins high school. I remember another kid (not sure what year) at junior olympics 3k or 5k bonked with like 50 to go.

If anyone else has seen these and know where they are at please post a link. Thanks!

Mr. Recovergear wrote:

Had he used my product, he would not have been nearly as floppy.

Post of the week--

snatching defeat from the jaws of victory

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcBc-zJ3QxY

And there's the imfamous Tim Galebach video. That one was due to heat.

shoelessjoe wrote:

That is so cool that a runner could push himself that hard. Any more videos like that out there?

Look towards the back at the 24 second mark of the video. This runner was a favorite but was injured much of the year and pushed the pace too hard.

Here is another view where he comes on the screen at the 51 second mark.

And there's the imfamous Tim Galebach video. That one was due to heat.

how do you respond as a bystander or a paramedic to someone who is appearing that way?

water, sugar, oxygen???