Great story. In addition to being an All-American and Heps xc champ, she also made the Olympic Marathon Trials (28th in 2016) for Hansons.
https://boston.cbslocal.com/2019/09/24/woman-helps-rescue-man-dog-water-chestnut-hill-reservoir/
Great story. In addition to being an All-American and Heps xc champ, she also made the Olympic Marathon Trials (28th in 2016) for Hansons.
https://boston.cbslocal.com/2019/09/24/woman-helps-rescue-man-dog-water-chestnut-hill-reservoir/
My gooodness!
Do you think that befor she realized something was wrong, she greeted him in a friendly fashion, such as "what is wrong with you???!?"
Fake news, dogs can swim and all the guy had to do was standup. Don't let the facts get in the way of a good tv "news" story if you got footage.
"A man and a dog were rescued from the Chestnut Hill Reservoir Tuesday by a jogger who noticed they were struggling."
Brutal. One of my great fears in life is that I'll die while out on a run and the news will report me as a jogger.
If a trials qualifier can't escape this appellation, what hope do the rest of us have?
rojo wrote:
Great story. In addition to being an All-American and Heps xc champ, she also made the Olympic Marathon Trials (28th in 2016) for Hansons.
https://boston.cbslocal.com/2019/09/24/woman-helps-rescue-man-dog-water-chestnut-hill-reservoir/
Good for her for paying attention to the situation.
Is she still running for Hansons?
NtC wrote:
"A man and a dog were rescued from the Chestnut Hill Reservoir Tuesday by a jogger who noticed they were struggling."
Brutal. One of my great fears in life is that I'll die while out on a run and the news will report me as a jogger.
If a trials qualifier can't escape this appellation, what hope do the rest of us have?
This is why I have unironically embraced the moniker. It's liberating to run as fast as you like - yet free from the expectations to do more than jog.
Runners World has the headline "Elite Marathoner Saves Drowning Man in Boston".
It happens to us all from time to time, finding an excuse to take a break in the middle of a run.
Did she at least stop her watch?
The man was either a stage or a complete idiot. No dog needs to be rescued from still water, especially a retriever.
so fake wrote:
The man was either a stage or a complete idiot. No dog needs to be rescued from still water, especially a retriever.
This ^
No chance. Absolute zero chance that the dog was in any kind of trouble in the water.
Maybe was a ploy to get her number? Asking for jamin
This part of the article made me laugh (added in bold for emphasis): "Kellner, who has no formal lifeguard training, kicked off her size 9.5 Adidas Supernovas and jumped in."
Stop the trolling for a second and realize that these are real people, and an animal, here instead of virtual images on your computer screen. What she did was brave and highly commendable. It is tough enough to swim while supporting a child in a pool, let alone for a small woman to support to swim back to shore while supporting a full-grown man and his dog in a 20 foot deep reservoir with a current running away from the shore.
delete the first "to support"
BernieSandals wrote:
Fake news, dogs can swim and all the guy had to do was standup. Don't let the facts get in the way of a good tv "news" story if you got footage.
There are so many arrogant (definitely) humanoids (maybe) posting on LetsHate, like BernieSandals, who think they know it all. Know-it-alls are some of the most idiotic of people.
Hey, bonehead, unless the victim was, oh, the tallest earthling ever, he wouldn't have been able to touch the freakin' bottom once he got out from the shoreline a ways, as PRESUMABLY he did. Go the to 1:19 mark of the WBZ news report -- oh, I mean fake news report -- to hear that the reservoir's depth reaches 20 feet. It ain't a kiddie wading pool.
Guess what, genius? People, especially PANICKED and EXHAUSTED people, don't need much water to drown in.
Yep, dogs can swim, but maybe, just maybe, the saved-from-drowning dude -- probably not the sharpest tack -- didn't quite realize that. Maybe, just maybe, Katie Kellner's gut reaction intent was to save both man and beast, and that she also did not realize at first that the dog could swim. She reacted instantly. What did you want her to do, wait, ponder a bit over the full spectrum of possible responses, and, consequently, to act too late and witness a man drowning?
Maybe, just maybe, Bernie Sandals wants to post us Chestnut Hill Reservoir depth details to set us straight.
And, er, BernieSandals, were you suggesting that all the guy had to do to prevent drowning was "standup"? Like Jerry Seinfeld standup? Ah, that's a new one...I can see the headlines..."Man saves himself from drowning through comedy"! Oh...you meant "stand up"!
Such a brilliant posting on LetsHate...
"standup": That's why I read these boards.
Great.
That's pretty cool.
Katie coached me (via e-mail) while I trained for a marathon for about eight months in 2016-2017.
I can totally hear one of the morans on the Olympic Trials broadcast bringing this up:
“You see in the middle of the pack is Katie Kellner. A few months ago she actually saved a man and his dog from drowning while she was out on a training run.”
“That’s right, Dwight. Not only did Katie Keller save a man and his dog, she also is a Cornell graduate. Shows that not only are these athletes well rounded runners, but well rounded people as well as runners, too.”
“Clearly the mental focus of these elite athletes comes in handy when they least expect it. I’m sure her athletic background came in handy when she swam to save the man and his dog”
“Maybe we’ll see her in the swimming Olympics too”
“Har har har har har”