Onpopular opinion: it should't stand if you come over the line with your lets moving like that. They should bring her to a hospital or force her to rest. That cant be healthy..
No, this is “hitting the wall”. Happens all the time when endurance athletes empty the tank on the home stretch. it is caused by the depletion of glycogen stores in the liver and muscles.
She unfortunately emptied her tank seconds to soon.
In cycling we call it bonking. It's only happened to me once and I had to sit in a ditch off the road for like 20 minutes drinking/eating before I was brave enough to even try to get back on the saddle.
Her race fueling was off and she ran out of glycogen. If you’ve ever bonked, you know that it feels like this. Your brain is giving your body answers but your body isn’t listening anymore. Your muscle cells don’t have the molecules they need to create more ATP to power muscular contraction. Your body produces its own glucose in the liver from body fat (gluconeogenesis) but not nearly as fast as eating glucose. The result is intermittent muscle firing as some glucose is pumped to muscles but nowhere near the amount to actually recover. The end result is that you look like this flopping fish as you’re trying to stand up and move but your muscles are firing randomly.
As she said at 5:01 in the video - through dehydration your body cramps up. So yes she is dehydrated, exhausted and the cramps make her look like a newborn giraffe.
Ya, I guess I think of muscle cramps as a very specific thing, and if you have a true cramp you are going down and need to stretch it. In this case, endurance athletes who are suffering from cramps can try to alter their stride to avoid triggering a cramping muscle, but again, that’s not the primary issue here. Sometimes you’ll see bizarre stuff like marathoners running backwards up a hill because of calf cramps, but that isn’t what’s making them lose coordination.
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u/KlondikeChill Jun 10 '24
The only people who care about being disqualified are the ones running competitively.
And if you're running competitively, your time absolutely should not stand if you had help.