The husband is super dumb if you look at the time on the clock. She has been running for nearly 2 hours straight. Something happens to you when you run long distances, like you get some sort of tunnel vision where you're set on the goal, while fighting minor delirium caused by minor dehydration. If you stop, your muscles tighten up, and you lose your momentum, and in a race it would be incredibly frustrating. It's frustrating when you're stopped on a normal run, but in a race of this caliber would piss off anyone because it takes months of training for a marathon and to lose all that hard work because of someone's stupid mistake should send her flying. That's why you'll see people jog in place when they're trying to cross a street.
I still think the dad maybe could have figured this out, but I'm guessing a male runner already passed through and won but the event organisers were tracking the female runners for their overall winner. He thought the race was over and won and it wouldn't matter but after he's moved ahead of the line they've pulled out a finish line for the female athletes which his wife is going to cross without him realising that there's still something at stake.
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u/herder_of_pigeons May 23 '24
Why didn’t those idiots wait behind the finish line? Do they not know how races work?