What would you do?
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beads1985 posted 1 year ago.
That is a great story.
Your friend Stephanie should be commended for her efforts.
Life is not all about competing.:D
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kylie posted 1 year ago.
It would be a tough one... I'm not trained in any kind of nursing/cpr/etc, so I would probably offer to help if I could, or go get someone who could.
She sounds like an amazing woman.
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skunkworxz posted 1 year ago.
Great story. It's good to see that folks will still stop and help. The fact that she continued on after the fact is amazing.
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RV posted 1 year ago.
Tri's are a big part of our lives, but there are many things that take priority. Your friend should be commended for being willing to jump in and offer aid.
Earlier this year, in a marathon I came up on someone that had collapased from the heat, but race officials were already with her, so I kept on going. The race officials closed the race course shortly after I finished as at least 30-40 people suffered from the heat.
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dr_rios_ec posted 1 year ago.
What an outstanding woman...
Finishing a race, no matter what, does not even closely compares, to giving a hand to someone in need or pain or both.
That has been one of my motivation to keep going with my carreer choice as a doctor.
Your friend is a great human being, with more people like here this would turn into a better world...
Thanks for sharing that story
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triNick posted 1 year ago.
I remember talking to her before the race, she had worked so hard to get to that point. This was her A race of the year, all or nothing. Yes, she is an amazing person, very courageous.
I think beads1985 nailed it! Life is not all about competing.
Most of us aren't out there to make a living, we are out there because we enjoy competing.
I guess what I meant was, if something happened during a race, wouldn't have to be bloody/gory like what she encountered, what would you do?
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toni posted 1 year ago.
I would definitely stop and help. I try to carry a disposable CPR mask with me to races, just in case. Someone elses life is much more important than getting a PR. Plus you'd have to live with your soul after that, knowing you just went past them without offering help. Even if you are not medically trained, someone who is can delegate things for you to do that would help out immensely.
In the end, we're all human and "Life is not all about competing". I would hope that someone would do the same for me.
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PJT posted 1 year ago.
Good on your friend. She will hopefully have many more HIMs in the future where she can speed to a PR--but you sometimes only get 1 chance to do the right thing when it really counts and she did it.
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Paintrain posted 1 year ago.
Your friend is a AWESOME woman. To finish the race after everything that she had been through is amazing to me.
What am I on? I'm on my bike busting my ass 6 hours a day... What are you on? - Lance Armstrong
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Tikal Dog posted 1 year ago.
If everyone was like this we would have a different world.
I think that it is a moral duty to help, even more if you take into consideration she´s a nurse.
But hey.... this days we have to apreciate the simple things that should be for granted as a part of a human being. Not everyone is so human anymore.
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The local newspaper published a story on one of our friends. I just felt like sharing this story with others.
During triathlon, it was depth of tragedy, not length of race, that hurt
Stephanie Erickson, a 38-year-old registered nurse at Unity Hospital, was about 50 miles into the 56-mile bicycling segment of her first half-Ironman triathlon in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, when she came upon what she remembered as "this horrible scene."
A motorcycle had crashed. A man was stretched out on the pavement. Blood was everywhere.
Newspaper article
What would you do?
I know Stephanie; I was there at the race (Pigman Half, Palo, IA). We cheered her on at T2 but we didn't know right away what had happened. We didn't know all the details until she had gone out for her run. During the post race awards, we couldn't imagine what she was going through; we wondered what we would do. We kept an eye on the finish line but there was no sign of her. She was still out there on the course. We felt bad when we had to leave the race site some 8 1/2 hours after the race had started. But felt ecstatic when we got news that she had finished the race. Talk about a courage with a mix of emotions, sadness and happiness at the same time, wow.
She inspired me to help someone this past Sept. in Cancun. I was doing the Ironman 70.3 Cancun race. I was about 6 miles into the run, when from a distance I could see some one on the side of the road under a tree in some shade. It was a very HOT day, so hot that it was affecting my race here at the end. At least 30 - 40 people passed by the guy before I even got by him. I had an extra bag of water with me and a bunch of ice in my jersey. My race was going down hill with the heat, so I stopped and offered him my water and ice. Right away I knew he was in bad shape. After I gave him my ice and water I wanted to leave, but something told me I should stay. Short story is, I stayed with him until we got him in to an ambulance. The whole ordeal lasted for at least 15 min if not more.
At the end of the day, I was bummed out, I was on pace up to make my goal time going into the run portion of the race but then the heat killed me, it wasn't the outcome I wanted. On the other hand I felt good that I was able to get someone the help they needed. This is not one of those things that we train for, it’s just something inside of us, I think...
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