Has a lapped runner ever come back to win a race?

What? This thread made the front page?

Can someone please tell the OP that it has happen by running a marathon on a track????

It happens quite often when running marathons on the track.

Maybe if someone ran a marathon on crack.

WhitePony wrote:

Maybe if someone ran a marathon on crack.

Only a quack would run a marathon on a track on crack.

I just had the most brilliant idea! what if there was a kind of race that was 42.195 kilometres long, to commemorate pheidippides' run from the battle of marathon to deliver a message to athens. Of course this race could always be run on streets and other pathways but that would be inneficient. A much better way to do it is to designate a circular running space on which the runners of the race could go around this, donut road, until they have ran the equivalent of the target distance without actually going anywhere. Now in this situation it would be possible for someone to pass another runner two or more times, but then, due to the length of the event, there will be an opportunity for the "double passed" person to overtake the passer and win.

ummmmmm, ever heard of Jordan Hasay?

sethraptor wrote:

I just had the most brilliant idea! what if there was a kind of race that was 42.195 kilometres long, to commemorate pheidippides' run from the battle of marathon to deliver a message to athens. Of course this race could always be run on streets and other pathways but that would be inneficient. A much better way to do it is to designate a circular running space on which the runners of the race could go around this, donut road, until they have ran the equivalent of the target distance without actually going anywhere. Now in this situation it would be possible for someone to pass another runner two or more times, but then, due to the length of the event, there will be an opportunity for the "double passed" person to overtake the passer and win.

Dude, what I think you're talking about the marathon on a track!

Marathon on a track will be an Olympic event in Rio, but instead of medals given out to the top 3, each participant gets a 26.2 sticker.

I have a friend who ran a marathon on a track and he said it's possible.

And a finisher's photo, free sample of Heed, shoelaces, tech shirt, 10% off coupon to the local Rio running shoe store, a beer voucher and a bottle-opnener/keychain/magnet/necklace.

Most of the participants in an Olympic Marathon don't even drive never mind own a car to put the sticker on.

A Marathon on the track is pretty good incentive though.

What would be cool is to run a 42.2 km race on a track in Lapland.

Winner!

When I worked the 1999 ACC Outdoor Champs at Clemson, Nolan Swanson of Wake Forest had just lapped the entire ACC 10k field and then dropped out of the race. The 2nd runner, who had 7 laps to go passed by the lap board which said 6 laps to go twice, once he was told he had 7 (being a lap down to the leader) and then came by again to see the 6 laps to go sign which was for him!! So yes, it has happened!

Read more:

http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=5075822&page=2#ixzz2Mp98aF00

Aside from the well-documented races that a few posters have brought forward with good documentation, links, and recounts, it is likely this would happen in a marathon on a track. That's the right answer, btw.

Track marathon. Pretty sure.

This is ludicrous, such a race would never occur. Instead, consider the possibility of a marathon on a track. Tracks are oval.

sethraptor wrote:

I just had the most brilliant idea! what if there was a kind of race that was 42.195 kilometres long, to commemorate pheidippides' run from the battle of marathon to deliver a message to athens. Of course this race could always be run on streets and other pathways but that would be inneficient. A much better way to do it is to designate a circular running space on which the runners of the race could go around this, donut road, until they have ran the equivalent of the target distance without actually going anywhere. Now in this situation it would be possible for someone to pass another runner two or more times, but then, due to the length of the event, there will be an opportunity for the "double passed" person to overtake the passer and win.

If you were doing this marathon on a track that everyone is speaking of, and the track was on a giant turntable rotating the opposite way of the runner but slightly faster, could you theoretically run a marathon on a track but slowly go backwards the whole time?

Lap Scorer wrote:

When I worked the 1999 ACC Outdoor Champs at Clemson, Nolan Swanson of Wake Forest had just lapped the entire ACC 10k field and then dropped out of the race. The 2nd runner, who had 7 laps to go passed by the lap board which said 6 laps to go twice, once he was told he had 7 (being a lap down to the leader) and then came by again to see the 6 laps to go sign which was for him!! So yes, it has happened!

Read more:

http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=5075822&page=2#ixzz2Mp98aF00

No one gives a s***. Can't you see we are talking about a marathon on a track?