Hi. This is
Benjamin McKenzie here. Dad’s always going on about these cool stories that
come from running so I wanted to share one of my own.
Recently we
had a multi-school athletics carnival day. I competed in a heap of events but the
big story of the day was the Under 15’s 800 metres.
There was 12 runners lined up next to each
other on the starting line. The gun went and one of the runners, Jake Shepherd
from Plenty Valley, was tripped up.
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| This is Jake's picture from Facebook |
Matt Perry
from Donvale saw Jake on the ground and stopped and helped him up.
Matt then
sprinted off to catch the other runners. Amazingly, he not only caught them but
he got a lead of ten metres! By the end he was too tired from having to sprint
after everyone and eventually finished third.
Jake posted
about it on Facebook saying:
“got
tripped at the start of a race at athletics today. so a guy (different from the
one who tripped me) comes and helps me up. he ended up third, so probably
sacrificed a first place and a spot in the next round to help me. people are
awesome.”
It got a heap of likes.
I probably wouldn't
have done that because it meant you probably didn't have a chance of winning if
you did that.
I think it
was awesome of Matt to be willing to give up his position and chance of winning
the race to help Jake to get up again.
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