Old Timey wrote:
Rumor has it that after the race she told a race official she had missed a turn and inadvertently cut the course. Nothing was ever done about it, but she did what she needed to do (alert race official).
Perhaps the RD finally got around to it.
Yeah, I've got an inside source and can verify this is 100% true. I guess she'd shit her pants pretty bad right between two aid stations.
She tried to make it into the bushes but was half a second too slow and it ended up blasting out, all into her shorts, up her arm, on her watch, etc. It was fortunate she had an extra long t-shirt that race - it was her only saving grace - and she managed to clean up and find her way out of the woods and back on the course. While it's not completely impossible that, during the confusion, she ended up back in a slightly different spot from where she left the course but, you can see, it was an honest mistake.