Runner in ‘Jesus Saves’ Bib Collapses, Is Saved by Group With Man Named Jesus

Runner's World ^ | October 31, 2019 | Elizabeth Millard

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

The last moment Tyler Moon remembers clearly in the Twin Cities 10-Miler on October 6 was seeing his parents and fiancée around the first mile. After that, he just has flashes of feeling off and struggling to breathe properly, followed by waking up in the ER with cuts on his face and a heavy, painful chest.

Despite never having any heart issues in the past, the 25-year-old had experienced ventricular tachycardia, an irregular heartbeat that caused reduced blood flow throughout his body. Just after the 8-mile mark, the lower chambers of his heart were getting no blood at all, so they simply shut down the operation, sending Moon careening to the ground, face first.

The race—his first of that distance—was meant to be a victory lap of sorts, capping off three years of hard work to lose weight, he told Runner’s World. He’d done a few 5Ks since college, and the steady, consistent running progress helped him lose 100 pounds.

“It was brutal at first,” the Eden Prairie, Minnesota, resident says. “But once I began to drop the weight, it wasn’t as hard on my knees and I got hooked. I began looking for ways to challenge myself.”

When his fiancée’s brother ran the Twin Cities Marathon in 2018, Moon felt inspired, though he knew he wasn’t quite ready to go the full 26.2. So he began to look for something a little bit shorter, and decided on the 10-miler this October.

As a Christian, he also saw it as an opportunity to share his faith: He had “Jesus Saves” on his bib instead of his name.

“I hoped someone would see that message and feel encouraged by it,” he recalls. “That they might feel lifted up in some way, and that they weren’t alone.”

[Bob434]

lol and the fish market only sold 2 fish that whole day-