I know what you’re thinking – “Burnsy, will you please stop banging my girlfriend and where’s your post about UCF winning the Conference USA championship and your Knights cracking the BCS Top 25 for the first time in program history?” And the answers are no, and there’s no need to point out the obvious about the CUSA championship when everyone clearly watched it on Saturday. Besides, I’m a man of the people and I know what people around here want – girls’ high school track.
Holland Reynolds helped guide her track team to a victory in true champion style last week, as she collapsed just feet from the finish line during a 3.1-mile race. Reynolds, a junior at University High School in San Francisco, was suffering from fatigue and cramps, as well as mild hypothermia, when she couldn’t take it anymore and hit the ground. But instead of letting the event staff assist her for medical treatment, Holland crawled across the finish line, assuring her team the state championship. And if Holland hasn’t earned badass status in your book yet, she did it all for her team’s coach, who is suffering from Lou Gehrig’s disease. What a dick, that Gehrig, getting everyone sick.
Video of Holland making hypothermia her bitch after the jump…
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Based on the headline, my parole officer says I can’t read this.
Doctor dog just took his hippocratic arf.
Wait wait wait, this doesn’t add up. It isn’t that cold in NorCal that running 3.1 miles in less than a half hour should require a trip to the ER. This is bullshit. Just like AIDS.
When you said a high school girl would inspire me while crawling, I expected something much sexier.
Aw, UCF is finally ranked. Adorable. Only took since..Jesus Christ, 1979?
I was more inspired by everyone else that finished standing up.
Burnsy, you’re gonna LOVE me this year.
How can you say a high school girl when they clearly say “University of San Francisco runner” no less than 800 times?
Hypothermia is a major risk in long-distance races – the body temperature and blood pressure jack up during the race itself, especially near the finish line, when the runners try to pull out that last bit of stamina. Once the race is over, the sudden stop of activity leads to body temperature and blood pressure plummeting, often below normal. Runners are advised to keep moving after a race in order to slow down this drop precisely because of this risk.
The way the post is worded, it implies that she was suffering hypothermia as she was running – the overwhelming probability is that it set in when she collapsed. Sudden stop in movement, especially when she was obviously fatigued, could’ve easily led to mild hypothermia.
As for temperature, while NorCal is not the chilly tundra, it can get to around 50-60 degrees this time of year, which, in her body’s vulnerable state, is enough below regular body temp to cause the hypothermia.