Ray D'Arcy
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Podcast Appearances
It is.
It's a distraction.
That's what we're looking for.
That's what we're looking for.
Distraction.
While we're on Great Videos, you'll have heard about this story now and the man from North Down Athletics Club and the Boston Marathon.
Aaron Beggs is the man from the North Down Athletics Club and AJ Haridas is a 21-year-old university student from Wakefield in Massachusetts and both of them were taking part in the Boston Marathon on Monday.
And they were doing good times, sub-three-hour times, around two hours and three quarters.
So that's pretty fast.
If you don't know it, that's pretty fast.
So you're going at it.
You're going at it for just under three hours.
You're giving it your all.
And it became too much for AJ.
He'd just passed the 26-mile mark.
He'd probably 200 or 300 metres to run.
And he collapsed.
And there's footage of him looking like a baby giraffe.
He tries on a number of occasions to get up.
Four attempts, I think.