Courageous Finish or Bad Marshalling

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Kieren Dec 2012 11:48am, 1 Dec 2012 3,557 posts	0 Kieren What are you thoughts? Some are inspired and think this is it - finishing is everything, other might thing WTF were the other runners, team mates and marshalls doing? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xIzuyjCcZk&lc I think he needed help and should have been pulled out.
Christmas-smile Dec 2012 5:44pm, 1 Dec 2012 1,207 posts	0 Christmas-smile I just find that upsetting. Yes it was courageous but I can't see pride in that. He was clearly not in a state to make a sensible decision, and who knows what longer term damage he could have caused himself. I'm with you that he should have been pulled out...
Christmas-smile Dec 2012 5:48pm, 1 Dec 2012 1,208 posts	0 Christmas-smile Also, to be a bit brutal, he was essentially causing a hazard in the course, which could have caused further injury to himself or injury to others
wiener dog Dec 2012 5:49pm, 1 Dec 2012 981 posts	0 wiener dog Why the hell did NOBODY stop to help him? I would have done even if I was gonna pb - this proves just how scewed up some peoples priorities are
Christmas-smile Dec 2012 5:50pm, 1 Dec 2012 1,209 posts	0 Christmas-smile It's pretty brutal watching for that reason as much as any
Ade1973 Dec 2012 5:51pm, 1 Dec 2012 718 posts	0 Ade1973 Should have pulled the plug and got him off the course. Seems to be in a right mess. Why the urgency to get him onto a stretcher, when they've just stood and watched him for 3 minutes?
Duchess Dec 2012 5:55pm, 1 Dec 2012 2,116 posts	0 Duchess What in heavens name is the point of having marshals or first aides if they don't intervene with a runner in that state; that's horrendous. As for the other runners, they should be ashamed of themselves. It's not the slopes of Everest, you're not going to die by stopping to help someone else.
southcoastclaret Dec 2012 6:01pm, 1 Dec 2012 135 posts	0 southcoastclaret Okay I'll bite! Was he really in any danger, other than being run over? He clearly wasn't having a heart attack or anything. As to the other runners - it's a race, in a cross country you are trying to get points for your team. I'd stop if someone was in medical need, but not if they've just overcooked it and gone off too fast. Quite how you can reach that point in a 5k I'm not really sure.
sheri3004 Dec 2012 6:02pm, 1 Dec 2012 14,898 posts	0 sheri3004 Ouch, that's awful I would imagine he was saying he didn't want help - it did look like one guy (out of all the many who ran past, round and pretty much over him) did try to offer help - but yeah, he was hardly in a fit state to make that decision.
sheri3004 Dec 2012 6:03pm, 1 Dec 2012 14,899 posts	0 sheri3004 Looked like there was more wrong with him than having gone off too fast! The guy could barely move!