The Running Thread - 2016

[keahgirl8]

QOTD: Have you ever seen someone get injured during a race or event, or a type of incident?

I have seen people fall during the PHM. It can get so muddy on the side of the road and when people are either trying to pass on the right or get to the porta-potties. Please slow down and watch where you're going if you're getting in the grass. I also saw a girl with both knees iced after that race. I didn't see what happened to her, but I definitely saw the aftermath!

 

[roxymama]

ATTQOTD:
Twice I've seen two bad tripping tumbles as a spectator, never while running. Once was as a spectator for the WDW marathon, right outside where the Comteporary is and the runners turn left to go towards the Magic Kingdom entrance. Saw a woman take a hard splat face first over where the road median started. She definitely had some road rash on her shin area, but got up and did like a big shrug to our little crowd and we all cheered loudly for her. I hope she was ok...she kept running.
Second was at a triathlon, saw a lady fall onto her knees over a speed bump right after transition. There were flags and cones and a lady shouting over and over "watch your step, speed bump." Really bloody knees. She poured water on them from her bottle and kept going. Saw her after with her medal and still bloody knees. ouch.

My hubby at his last tri said he heard a man yelling "help help help" behind him and he stopped swimming and started treading water but that there were like two kayak lifeguards over to the man immediately so he kept swimming but he said it scared him.

 

[rteetz]

QOTD: Have you ever seen someone get injured during a race or event, or a type of incident?

I have not seen someone get injured during a race.

 

[FFigawi]

QOTD: Have you ever seen someone get injured during a race or event, or a type of incident?

I've seen people trip and fall and scrape themselves up pretty good, but the worst incident I've seen was a guy collapsing at Comrades. His body just gave out and he dropped in a heap only a few hundred yards from the finish line. You are allowed to help people to some extent, but you can't carry them across the line, so he ended up not finishing. This video is not of him, but he ended up just like this guy.

 

[camaker]

QOTD: Have you ever seen someone get injured during a race or event, or a type of incident?

In my half in Charlotte last year I came up on someone who had apparently passed out and was unresponsive about halfway through the race. The race's medical support was already with him and I never heard what happened. Also, during this year's DLH, a guy close by me tripped over a grate in the DLP and went down pretty hard. He popped right back up and continued on, though.

 

[roxymama]

I've seen people trip and fall and scrape themselves up pretty good, but the worst incident I've seen was a guy collapsing at Comrades. His body just gave out and he dropped in a heap only a few hundred yards from the finish line. You are allowed to help people to some extent, but you can't carry them across the line, so he ended up not finishing. This video is not of him, but he ended up just like this guy.

That's really scary! I'm glad races have medical support for moments like that.

My husband once got a leg cramp in his calf right before the last turn towards a finish line. He wasn't concerned about his time and he said it was really painful so he stopped to massage it out. And he said everyone in the crowd was freaking out yelling "you are almost there, the finish line it right there." He was like "I know, my leg hurts, I can't" and he did finish shortly after, but only after giving the whole crowd a ton of panic about his time. It's nice they were rooting for him and cheering for him.

 

[RunDisneyDad]

ATTQOTD: I haven't seen someone fall during an event, but at the finish of the 2014 WDW Marathon I saw someone receiving medical attention near the Gospel Choir at mile 26. It was a pretty sobering thing to see, especially at that point of the race.

 

[Dis5150]

ATTQOTD: Nope, the worst I have seen is a lady throwing up at Princess, right before you leave Epcot at the finish. I hope she was able to finish.

 

[disneydaydreamer33]

ATTQOTD: In a way this has happened. My best running friend and I were running this year's PHM. That weekend she got dehydrated from our day at HP and though she got up and dressed in her super cute Maleficent outfit, she could barely walk through the parking lot. While we were waiting to go to our corrals, she started throwing up again and I had to get medical to wheel her to a tent. She spent the first hour of the race throwing up in the tent, and I ran it on my own. It was very disappointing for both of us!

 

[Disney at Heart]

QOTD: Have you ever seen someone get injured during a race or event, or a type of incident?

My first Disney race was TOT 2013. Someone collapsed/fell in the "Disco Tunnel." I didn't see him fall, but bicycle personnel were all around to help him and to guide runners to the other side of the tunnel. I kept running, but was a little traumatized because I was a new runner, and I had never thought about falling.

 

[ZellyB]

I saw a woman fall during the WDW marathon in 2014. She was running across this drainage grate thing as you are leaving MK. I think she just caught her toe and down she went. She seemed okay and got back up shortly after the fall.

Also, not during the race, but on the bus ride back to the resort after the marathon in 2013 (a hot run) a man on our bus started having a seizure. The bus driver pulled over and they called 911. By the time the ambulance got there, he was awake and coherent, but they took him off in the ambulance anyway. That was scary!

 

[gjramsey]

ATTQOTD: In a couple of races, I have run past an occurrence where on-course medical teams were helping someone on the ground.

I have also seen one guy pull up during the 1st mile of a half/full race with what looked like a pulled hammy.

 

[OldSlowGoofyGuy]

QOTD:
Event 1: Peachtree Road Race, less than 400 yard from the finish. Spectator yells 'Hi Jane!' Jane turns her head around, looking backwards, but continues to run forward. I see her heading toward a permanent springy sign thing. I yelled, but it was too late. She hit the sign and went down hard. I am hoping since we were that close to the finish that she was able to get up and continue.

Event 2: Corporate Challenge, a long time ago. I was determined to beat my boss, who was in much better shape than I was. I went out crazy fast and tried to hang with him. As I am running, I noticed my hands are hitting the pavement. My last thought was "that's weird'. I passed out and DNF. They took me to the medical tent. I can't remember if they let me walk or if I had to ride an ambulance. My wife-to-be was mad that I wasn't there to see her finish. Co-workers told her I was in the medical tent, but she thought they were kidding.

 

[dis_or_dat]

ATTQOTD: Yikes, some of these stories are pretty scary. I've seen people placed in wheelchairs at the RnR SF half finish line. One man had ice packs over his groin, so I wonder if he had strained himself or overheated. Another was a young girl hysterically crying who had been running super fast. And they were still bringing more wheelchairs after I crossed.

 

[PrincessV]

So many great races and training runs reported - CONGRATS!!!

ATTQOTD: I've seen a bunch of trip and fall types in rD races. Two really scary times stand out...

TOT 2013: after the finish, I saw a couple stopped along the side of the finish chute, the man holding the top of a metal barricade. All of a sudden, he went down, face first into the top of the barricade. I'll never forget the sound of his head hitting the metal. There was this weird silence for a second, then a barrage of shouts for "MEDIC!!!" and a few people who still had legs sprinting off to find help. Scary.

One of the Jan. or PHM halfs: before we'd even gotten to mile 1, a runner sprinted through the very dense crowd, weaving in and out and pushing people as he went. Right in front of me, he shoved his way past a woman, knocking her to the ground face-first. And the course was so congested, people couldn't stop, so she also got trampled before a few of us could surround her and get her to her feet and over to the side. Poor thing's face was bloody and she hurt her arm badly.

 

[cavepig]

Right before we were to start the Disneyland half in 2015 the guy in front of me swayed and passed out, people caught him and he got to the side. Heard he did end up running I guess after he came around.

In high school cross country a guy on our team in a couple races his body gave out right before the finish and he crawled across the finish in one of them, the other I don't think he did finish.

 

[kirstie101]

Running update: Didn't do any runs during the week. Did some yoga and a few walks. Saturday I headed out to see how the IT band felt and I made it just over 3 miles running, walked an add'l mile home. Going in for another ART session today.

ATTQOTD: At RnR SF this year, as we were starting the Golden Gate bridge, a woman fell and hit her head so hard on the asphalt that you could hear it. I think she was in shock cause she bounced right back up and kept running. People offered help but she insisted she was fine. When I got to the other side of the bridge (about 2 miles) she was in the back of an ambulance. I admit it shook me up a bit. I've never heard a head hit the ground like that.

 

[OldSlowGoofyGuy]

QOTD:
Event 1: Peachtree Road Race, less than 400 yard from the finish. Spectator yells 'Hi Jane!' Jane turns her head around, looking backwards, but continues to run forward. I see her heading toward a permanent springy sign thing. I yelled, but it was too late. She hit the sign and went down hard. I am hoping since we were that close to the finish that she was able to get up and continue.

BTW, the names have been changed to protect the innocent.

 

[Flossbolna]

I really need to stop reading about all the accidents that people saw. I am not sure why, but is creeping me out even more than the stories of what happened to the posters themselves... I never saw anyone fall and am happy about that!

 

[The Expert]

As I am running, I noticed my hands are hitting the pavement. My last thought was "that's weird'.

I feel like a terrible person but I seriously LOLd at this! So glad you're okay now.