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duncs
The news has rightly bigged up the Swansea runner story, stopping to help a Chorlton runner losing time & places.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-39686765
Was curious if he was close to a pb and missed out through his actions, so checked powerof10... turns out he's a 2.30ish runner.
http://www.thepowerof10.info/athletes/profile.aspx?athleteid=522615
Was aiming for 2h24 this year:
https://thewelshrunner.com/2017/01/10/marathon-madness-begins/
Splits on Sunday show he'd slowed up after 25km:
http://results-2017.virginmoneylondonmarathon.com/2017/?content=detail&fpid=search&pid=search&idp=9999990F5ECC85000024C61C&lang=EN_CAP&event=MAS&search%5Bname%5D=Rees&search%5Bfirstname%5D=M&search%5Bsex%5D=%25&search%5Bnation%5D=%25&search_sort=name&search_event=MAS
His action in helping at the finish certainly made a potentially disappointing day at vlm into a very good one for him...
Anyway, if it was you and a milestone pb (sub 3, sub 4, whatever relative to you at present) was almost in the bag for you with 300m to go, would you have stopped to help?