Most comical positive split you've ever seen?

Pulled out Peters wrote:

Jim Peters at the Empire Games. Came into the stadium 17 minutes ahead of the second runner and then covered 200 metres in 11 minutes. He's still not actually done the race.

I looked him up and it said he was first under 2:20 and had ran 2:17 that year. It also said he quit after that DNF and had arrived in the stadium 10 minutes ahead of the record. Does that mean he was on 2:07 pace?

It also said he collapsed 220 yards from the finish. So he was 2.3m from the finish when he DNF'd? On the video he was staggering forward still and crossed a line and they grabbed him.

He also said he nearly died. There should be judges who yank fallers off the course. Falling twice in one minute should be an automatic medical DNF.

Bad Wigins wrote:

Pulled out Peters wrote:

Jim Peters at the Empire Games. Came into the stadium 17 minutes ahead of the second runner and then covered 200 metres in 11 minutes. He's still not actually done the race.

I looked him up and it said he was first under 2:20 and had ran 2:17 that year. It also said he quit after that DNF and had arrived in the stadium 10 minutes ahead of the record. Does that mean he was on 2:07 pace?

Perhaps it means he was 10 minutes ahead of The Commonwealth Games marathon record.

Pulled out Peters wrote:

Jim Peters at the Empire Games. Came into the stadium 17 minutes ahead of the second runner and then covered 200 metres in 11 minutes. He's still not actually done the race.

He has done the race he didn't complete or finish it

Do Americans use any other word other than done?

yesstiles wrote:

Bad Wigins wrote:

I looked him up and it said he was first under 2:20 and had ran 2:17 that year. It also said he quit after that DNF and had arrived in the stadium 10 minutes ahead of the record. Does that mean he was on 2:07 pace?

Perhaps it means he was 10 minutes ahead of The Commonwealth Games marathon record.

That is an interesting speculation but I would rather hear the FACTS. The person I was responding to may know something. Let's be patient and see what they say.

All positive splits are hilarious. You can't say one is more comical than another. That's like asking which of your children you love more. Sometimes I'm sitting in a meeting at work and just start laughing and everyone's like "What is it?" and I'm like "Positive splits..." while slowly shaking my head. Then everyone totally starts cracking up.

This one in Rome is pretty bad.

^ NOT. He was the pacemaker, and ran the prescribed pace. If they had followed he would have dropped, instead he gallantly tried to Byers them.

My teammate in HS was a 4:25/9:25 guy. We were at blue ridge relays and during the 4xmile, he went out in 2:04, and finished with a 5:17 mile (slightly fuzzy memory but I believe this is accurate) for 2:04/3:13. Still no idea what he was thinking.