This entry should really go into the marathon section, but I really don't know. So I was at the gym, and guess what is on...the olympics, and of course with my strange luck, the womens marathon competition is on. Crazy to see people going through what I experienced. The even crazier part is the fact that these ladies are hard core, runners, well duh..they are in the olympics!!! The thing that surprised me the most is that it's a real race for them. They are all going for the gold. So for a majority of the race this lady was in second place, and trying to catch up to this 90 pound Japanese lady that was just kicking some serious ass!This lady (pictured below) is seriously one of the craziest people i've ever seen in the olympics, I mean i've watched the olympics before but dude this lady was really pushing it. Perhaps it's cause i've done something remotely in the same ballpark as her. Granted i'm a newbie compared to her. So she was pushing her pace dramatically fast to catch that 90 pound chick, and it seems like she was doing great, so all of the sudden she's about 3.5 miles from the finish and closing in on the #1 spot, and then she just stops!!! Starts crying, and walks off the course!!!!I had my headphones on while I was watching the TV (via reading closed caption) and of course doing my crosstraining, and when she did that I yelled out "Holy shit, oh no!!" Damned that made me want to cry, I felt soo bad for this person, that totally sucks. Her name is Paula Radcliffe and she's from Great Britain. My heart literally dropped. From what I could gather, and now that i'm reading online about her she was favored to take gold!
Another cool pic i found of that competition.
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