Posted on 07/06/2015 2:52:21 PM PDT by Cecily
his is the soul-destroying moment an American runner celebrated his victory a little too early at the end of a race and ended up getting beaten to the finish line by a British runner.
Ben Payne made the gaffe during the 10-kilometre AJC Peachtree Road Race in Atlanta, Georgia, making his Fourth of July a day that he won't forget.
Payne's ill-timed decision was caught on NBC broadcast WXIA and shows the moment he nears the finish line of the race and slows down, only for British Olympian Scott Overall to pass him.
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2nd place is the first loser...
Play the game. All the way.
Yep ... start slowing about 10ft PAST the finish line.
“It ain’t over ‘til it’s over!”
Lost by a hare.
Just think how well the US would have done had that runner been a 10k runner instead of a marathon runner.
The marathon runner must have thought this was just a quarter way timing mat!
/sarc>
While the man may be a “marathon runner” elsewhere in his life, this race was a 10K, about 6 miles.
True.
He was RWAB-running while acting black.
I ran twelve marathons when I was younger. They were life changing to me. The most profound sense of accomplishment I have ever had when I crossed the finish line of each one. The training and subsequent daily road racing for 10Ks and just exercise made me fit beyond my years. My resting pulse rate dropped to 38-39 beats a minute for four decades. My doctor told me this slow heart rate was in effect allowing my heart to work half as hard as it normally would.
To this day just shy of age 69, I still walk an hour a day and am much fitter than the majority of my classmates and friends at this age (of those that are still alive). People regularly tell me I look 15-20 years younger than my chronilogical age. I work on a 30 acre farm raising beef cattle. I still play golf in the low to mid-80s.
So arbitrarily saying that running marathons can't be good for you, is wrong and a gross generalization. It shows your ignorance of physiology and fitness. Try getting your facts straight next time before shooting from the hip.
A basic understanding of physiology would indicate that the human frame wasn't built to run 26 or 27 miles at a time. Running 3 or 4 miles a day is much more sustainable, and so more healthy in the long run. In my opinion.
If that offends you, too bad.
I met Frank Shorter, the gold medalist in the Munich Olympics for the marathon, once at a race in New Mexico and was struck by how small he was. He is a waif of a guy, no bigger than some middle-schoolers. And yet he is still fit to this day, just not fat like the the majority of the US population.
Nobody said anything about being offended. Being offended is a liberal trait, something you may identify with, pal. And if that offends you, too bad.
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