I have been running since May 2009 but never 10000 meter track. I plan to do so in 2014. But this video frightens me off...
Has anyone (pro or non-pro) seen anything like this?
What should I do to avoid this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-fZW0pJPR0
As far as I know from the video the runner is Swedish and competing in national team.
WTF?? It's only a 10K...not like a glycogen depleting marathon...his electrolytes must be so F*&*&D up or dehydrated that his muscles aren't working. How is this possible?
He didn't do enough form drills and forgot how to run.
Here is a video of the DNF runner, Fredrik Uhrbom, saying he had a hamstring injury that caused that DNF. It looked like a lot more than a hamstring injury to me.
Jenny Barringer collapsing in 2009 ncaa cross-country (begins at 1:08)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7PGMHhdC0A
University High School runner crawling across the finish line at CA cross-country state meet (team wins the championship).
At least helpers got to the Swedish guy fairly quickly, and immediately put hands on him, thus DQing him and making his finishing pointless. (Granted, he had already left the track and should have been DQed on that basis alone.)
The "let 'em finish" mentality that some officials and medical personnel have is a shadow on The Sport. Part of an official's or trainer's function is to protect runners from themselves.
And the very *last* thing you should do, in that situation, is to ask the non compos runner, "Can you finish?" In that situation, the runner is the person *least* able to make a rational judgment on that score.
Best way to avoid this is to try to be in the 99.99999% of 10k runners that this will never happen to.
As he said, "the night curtain went down" in that second interview, and must have gone down in the first race too, given all the uppercuts he was throwing when the official was trying to help him.
SMJO wrote:
He didn't do enough form drills and forgot how to run.
I almost choked on my food reading that. I usually don't LOL, but I did (or did the best I could with food in my mouth). It seriously does look like he forgot how to run when he first goes down.
Reminds me of QWOP.
I hope it was just a hamstring injury and not something else more severe like the one poster alluded to.
joho wrote:
Here is a video of the DNF runner, Fredrik Uhrbom, saying he had a hamstring injury that caused that DNF. It looked like a lot more than a hamstring injury to me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pArrCDEC5lI
Different event, I guess.
I never get how this kind of thing happens. Do these people like forget to eat for a week or something?
Happens in the 5000 too! Lest we forget Tim Galebach...
Look up Ed Eyestone in the brutal Atlanta heat during the 1996 Olympic Trials 10,000m.
he's just trying to QWOP