April 2011

[ladyrunner]

I have just clicked through the results of Rotterdam Marathon and found that there were 7377 finishers only. I think that the 22,000 participants includes runners in the Adult 5k (1600+ runners) and 10k (6400+ runner) which took place 15 minutes after we started from the same start line. On the Saturday afternoon they had huge crowds at the finish line with numerous kids races.

Anyway I managed to watch a video of the guy that came 3rd from last in the marathon. He is called Shinya Otsuka, No. 7916, finished in a time of 5:41:27 (official time). Looking through the video at 20k and 30k he is with crowds of runners, then at 35k there is a wait then he appears power walking with a few other stragglers with a car following behind. At the finish there is him and another man and it looks like the race is all over with the video camera taking shots of people volunteering.

http://www.marathonrotterdam.nl/lopers/uitslag/mysports?e=RD11M&n=Shinya%20Otsuka&r=7916&ct_s1=11:04:28&ct_s2=11:31:37&nt_s2=00:27:10&ct_s3=11:59:43&nt_s3=00:55:15&ct_s4=12:28:39&nt_s4=01:24:11&ct_s5=13:03:04&nt_s5=01:58:37&ct_s6=13:12:18&nt_s6=02:07:50&ct_s7=13:45:18&nt_s7=02:40:51&ct_s8=14:30:33&nt_s8=03:26:05&ct_s9=15:48:21&nt_s9=04:43:53&ct_s10=&ct_f=16:41:31&nt_f=05:37:04&l=nl