High school runner carries rival bleeding runner 1/2 mile to medical aid

ALH359 wrote:

You're an idiot plain and simple. If he kid continued to run he would keep on bleeding even worse and would probably have died. Think common sense before you say something stupid.

His choice wasn't to continue running or be carried. His choice was to either sit and wait for help from someone with a vehicle or be carried. Certainly being carried will cause greater blood loss than sitting calmly and waiting for someone to bring a car around.

Thanks for the info on spikes

Was wondering what they were

The article said it was his achilles. If that's the case, he very well could have been unable to walk.

Most CC races are run on golf courses where spectators hang around start/finish line. Half mile out on hilly, wooded golf course could easily mean the injured was out of sight of help. Injured was probably 12 or 13 yr old 7th or 8th grade kid...not known for rational thinking. based on comments here, it's like some of yu are incapable of it either. Well done Josh.

OK I read the whole story...injured was ~14 yr old Freshman...still not give to rational thought when injured (20 stiches suggests pretty significant bleading- one article mentioned exposed bone)

What a ridiculous and embarrassing story... Jeez!

An extremely nice good samaritan going WAY above and beyond would stop to render aid for TWO SECONDS tops, and seeing that it is a spike injury (no matter how profuse the bleeding is), resume the race and encourage the injured guy to hop back to the start - no biggie, nice gesture.

And the injured person, no matter how hysterically he was sobbing like a 4 yr old and how intense the pain was from a gash in his leg, would suck it up, say thanks but no thanks, and have enough self respect to hobble back to the start post-haste and preserve whatever miniscule shred of dignity he had left!

Josh is no hero, but he sounds like he meant well... and on the off chance he did it to impress the ladies, then this all becomes a brilliant maneuver - hat's off to him!

...the rest of the story is that the two of them were secretly bum-chums!

LOL!!!

What troubles me about this story is that the kid has received so much attention and praise for an act that, while it makes a catchy headline, requires absolutely no skill, determination, or excellence (characteristics highly valued in distance running). The kid who actually won the race (whose name we have never heard or read), displayed the traits we most value in the running community (discounted, of course, for being a JV race).

Voice of Reason wrote:

What troubles me about this story is that the kid has received so much attention and praise for an act that, while it makes a catchy headline, requires absolutely no skill, determination, or excellence (characteristics highly valued in distance running). The kid who actually won the race (whose name we have never heard or read), displayed the traits we most value in the running community (discounted, of course, for being a JV race).

Why so critical?

Other than those who participated in the race, nobody cares about the results. Winning a small JV race is not particularly newsworthy.

On the other hand, what this kid did is commendable. Accordingly, it is newsworthy. He acted selflessly and helped out a fellow runner in agonizing pain, while other raced by.

I respect what the kid did. II I was in the race, I probably would have passed the poor kid without looking back.

Additionally, most people probably would have dropped out of the race after carrying an injured kid 800 meters. However, he finished the race. I'd say this kid does not lack "determination."

I was in the race and actually saw this, I searched youtube and found this video, I'm pretty sure it was taken around the 2nd mile marker. You see him helping the injured runner about 6 minutes into the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsyYvFgdb5c&feature=related

Sigh..you got me

This is why JV kids shouldn't wear spikes...

I hope you get elbowed in the face your next race and then ran into a tree. When you are on the ground, it would be great for the next guy to stop, ask how you are doing and then punch you repeatedly in the face until you pass out.

you know, i stopped once in a dual meet in high school to see how a guy was that i was passing. he looked awful, we conversed briefly but he said he was okay.

i was a sophomore and running like shite. he was one of the best runners in our conference (i didn't know that at the time) and close to the top freshman in the state. i beat him that day. at conference he beat me by ~ 3 minutes

would i have stopped if i hadn't been running like shite? i don't know. my coach was surprised and a little pissed, even though we got our asses kicked anyway, and i had to kick hard to maintain the slot as our last varsity runner.

Wouldn't it have been faster to finish the race and tell the officials about the injured runner? Probably took him 10-15 minutes tops. How the hell do you carry the guy a half mile anyway? I hope they both got DQ'd.

aloha warrior wrote:

Wouldn't it have been faster to finish the race and tell the officials about the injured runner? Probably took him 10-15 minutes tops. How the hell do you carry the guy a half mile anyway? I hope they both got DQ'd.

they definately both got DQed. any non-incidental contact is illegal in xc

Judges decision almost always

The majority of the posers posters on here need to add a dollar to the douche bag jar.