Sarah True collapses as leader 1k before finish line at Ironman Frankfurt

LateRunnerPhil wrote:

She was taken off the course by medics to give her infusions, but then she started fighting them and wanted to continue the race. She clearly wasn't herself anymore at this moment, and put her health in much greater risk than necessary. I hope she will recover.

If some idiots attacked me with needles and injections, I'd sure as heck fight them off too.

I hope she recovers well and that the attackers are locked up.

Two collapses in a row!?! She may be doing permanent damage, as per Alberto in the '80s. Gwen avoided the step up to IM, and as badly as her marathon quest has gone, at least she hasn't gone through this level of trauma. Wishing my best for a full recovery for Sarah and for another option to present itself. IM is just too long, too hot and too expensive to pursue without being 100% in all aspects.

Your health is your true wealth. Guard it at all costs.

YMMV wrote:

Two collapses in a row!?! She may be doing permanent damage, as per Alberto in the '80s. Gwen avoided the step up to IM, and as badly as her marathon quest has gone, at least she hasn't gone through this level of trauma. Wishing my best for a full recovery for Sarah and for another option to present itself. IM is just too long, too hot and too expensive to pursue without being 100% in all aspects.

Your health is your true wealth. Guard it at all costs.

Said by the man who refuses to eat vegetables.

SteelTownRunner wrote:

She is certainly good enough, but the way entry at Kona is structured athletes need to place first or second I believe in various races and there isn't any wiggle room in a 9 hour effort. That's quite a bit tighter than the standards for excellence we use in evaluating marathon performances (top 5, 10, etc). She was 10 minutes in the lead when this happened.

If you can't control your nutrition in an Ironman or an ultra you are not good enough. Sorry this is an important part of the game.

It's like the guy they pulled off the track at Western States before he won a couple of years ago.

Tofuisgoodforyou wrote:

YMMV wrote:

Two collapses in a row!?! She may be doing permanent damage, as per Alberto in the '80s. Gwen avoided the step up to IM, and as badly as her marathon quest has gone, at least she hasn't gone through this level of trauma. Wishing my best for a full recovery for Sarah and for another option to present itself. IM is just too long, too hot and too expensive to pursue without being 100% in all aspects.

Your health is your true wealth. Guard it at all costs.

Said by the man who refuses to eat vegetables.

Hope she recovers.

As for the heat, it’s in no way normal for Germany, and I once lived in Germany.

The reality, which some here may find hard to confront: the climate crisis threatens safe running along with many other things.

The age grouper that came up from behind her grabbed her elbow and stopped her. He shouldn’t have done this. I’m sure he had no idea she had under half mile to go and was the race leader, but its still not right.. She might not have made it but deserved to have the chance on her own after having gone so far. That guy might have cost her the win, the money, and Kona slot.

Lots of crazy stuff happens in IM. She had such a huge lead she could have sat down in shade for a few minutes, cooled off, walked it in and still won.

Whitesocksjoey wrote:

The age grouper that came up from behind her grabbed her elbow and stopped her. He shouldn’t have done this. I’m sure he had no idea she had under half mile to go and was the race leader, but its still not right.. She might not have made it but deserved to have the chance on her own after having gone so far. That guy might have cost her the win, the money, and Kona slot.

Lots of crazy stuff happens in IM. She had such a huge lead she could have sat down in shade for a few minutes, cooled off, walked it in and still won.

Nope, he did exactly everything right. This video shows her last 15 minutes of the race:

After 1 min, you can see her unable to continue, just standing and very dizzy. Then she did run/walk for 15 more mins, subconsciously. Had no one interfered and helped her, she could have died there. She was at the absolute limits of what's humanly possible and on the brink of death. In an interview with German newspaper she said that she can't remember the last 20 minutes of the race.

She was either out of carbs/sugars, or she was just completely dehydrated and lacking minerals/salt, normally the brain would tell her to stop by knocking her out in time to prevent death but she was mentally so strong that she ignored all the warnings the brain could give her and managed to keep going, which clearly isn't healthy if not life-threatening.

MaynardMaster wrote:

Hope she recovers.

As for the heat, it’s in no way normal for Germany, and I once lived in Germany.

The reality, which some here may find hard to confront: the climate crisis threatens safe running along with many other things.

This is part of the climate disruption.

Plus, all the caffeine that she drinks made this inevitable.

Everything you write here is pure conjecture. You have no info that she was anywhere close to death. Low carbs or electrolytes aren’t really the risk - it’s heat. Like you say she had been like this for 15 minutes and was a few hundred meters from the finish. Most likely, she crosses finish line, cools down and gets fluids, and is back doing social media in a few hours exactly like she was after getting pulled.

The fact is age grouper grabbed her and stopped her. She definitely doesn’t look good but that dude had no right.

Whitesocksniffer, your conjecture is just offensive. She was experiencing a medical emergency. She fell over the second the other runner stopped to help. She was gone dude. She had 1K to go, not 30 yards. I believe it very likely she would have fallen over and hit her head had aid not been rendered at that moment. If she had the wherewithal to continue, she would have sloughed off the help, or said something. Watch the video again and you'll see she was so limp that it took several people to lift her by all limbs to even get her to aid.

Jesus Effing Christ, if I'm ever in her condition, on a course or not, I pray that someone, anyone, will at least offer to help me. I'm actually quite bothered by the number of other runners who casually ran by her as she faltered in that 10-15 minutes.

You are way off dude.

YMMV wrote:

Two collapses in a row!?! She may be doing permanent damage, as per Alberto in the '80s. Gwen avoided the step up to IM, and as badly as her marathon quest has gone, at least she hasn't gone through this level of trauma. Wishing my best for a full recovery for Sarah and for another option to present itself. IM is just too long, too hot and too expensive to pursue without being 100% in all aspects.

Your health is your true wealth. Guard it at all costs.

I like to view Sarah true as how Gwen would have done if she pursued the Ironman path.

It maybe the coach... Sutto has produced IM winners , gold medalist, and OTQ marathon triathletes

LateRunnerPhil wrote:

After 1 min, you can see her unable to continue, just standing and very dizzy. Then she did run/walk for 15 more mins, subconsciously. Had no one interfered and helped her, she could have died there. She was at the absolute limits of what's humanly possible and on the brink of death. In an interview with German newspaper she said that she can't remember the last 20 minutes of the race.

She was either out of carbs/sugars, or she was just completely dehydrated and lacking minerals/salt, normally the brain would tell her to stop by knocking her out in time to prevent death but she was mentally so strong that she ignored all the warnings the brain could give her and managed to keep going, which clearly isn't healthy if not life-threatening.

Wtf, she just bonked hard...you're such a drama queen.

Idiot, that's NOT what a hard bonk looks like. That's what delirium and heat stroke look like. Remind me to let you continue when you're in that condition some day. Astounding the lack of sense and wisdom with a few posters here.

henry w wrote:

LateRunnerPhil wrote:

After 1 min, you can see her unable to continue, just standing and very dizzy. Then she did run/walk for 15 more mins, subconsciously. Had no one interfered and helped her, she could have died there. She was at the absolute limits of what's humanly possible and on the brink of death. In an interview with German newspaper she said that she can't remember the last 20 minutes of the race.

She was either out of carbs/sugars, or she was just completely dehydrated and lacking minerals/salt, normally the brain would tell her to stop by knocking her out in time to prevent death but she was mentally so strong that she ignored all the warnings the brain could give her and managed to keep going, which clearly isn't healthy if not life-threatening.

Wtf, she just bonked hard...you're such a drama queen.

Everyone wants to get back out there after medics revive them! Too late...

That 1 km could have taken her the rest of her life, walking sideways like that.