The runner told the BBC that her leg began to feel sore near the halfway point of the race and, after seeing a friend next to the course, accepted a ride in his car to the next checkpoint to tell marshals she was withdrawing. "She has cooperated fully with the race organizers’ investigations, giving them a full account of what happened.” She said she was feeling sick and tired on the race and wanted to drop out," he said. “We can confirm that a runner has now been disqualified from the event having taken vehicle transport during part of the route,” race director Wayne Drinkwater said.Īdrian Stott, a running friend who has been in contact with Zakrzewski after the incident, told the BBC that the marathoner had arrived in Britain the night before the race after traveling for 48 hours from Australia. She had initially finished third in the 50-mile route from Manchester to Liverpool on April 7.
The 47-year-old Scottish runner, a doctor, was apparently tracked by GPX data by race organizers, who said that they found she has progressed through a mile of the race in one minute, 40 seconds: cue "Chariots of Fire" theme. Whatever it was, some error of judgement crept into the tired psyche of ultra-marathon runner Joasia Zakrzewski that led her to “run” 2.5 miles of a recent race by traveling them in an automobile.
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