Bogleech.com's 2018 Horror Write-off:
Runner's High
Submitted by Hugo A Gomez
Even now they are still runing
The Los Andes Half marathon was all they talked about back
then,it was mostly a charity thing,but it was also sponsored by a lot of of
different companies,energy drinks and others sports stuff,they even managed to
get some profecional athletes for it,plus,the security was extremly tight for such
an open event like that,it seemed like they were prepared for anything
They were not
the Half marathon started whit all the fanfare,all the
runners were in high spirits, ,a lot of different people were running,those that
merely wanted to try for fun,those that had alredy done it before,and those
that were in for the gold,they were all there,but one thing in common in all of
them was their smiles,almost manic at
times,that energy was almost palpable,and maybe thats when it trully started
the real problema made itself apparent when the marathon
ended
I remember the first runner,she looked so happy,she was
gonna be the first to cross the line and lo and behold she did,but then she
dint stop,she dint stop for the interview ,she dint stop to receive her Price ,she
dint even stop to hug her daughter ,she just keep on runing along the set pat
And the the second came out,and then the third and then
everyone else crossed the finish line
No one stopped
At the start we tought it was some kind of stunt,but by the
time the third lap round was finished we
knew something was wrong ,so we tried to stop them
Have you ever seen an stampede?, hundreds of herd animals
just running over everything and anything,it kind of went like that
They tried all they could,they put barricades ,they blocked
the set path,they even used those high presure wáter hoses that only come up in
riots,nothing worked
They just keep on running
The next day they were still running,at lap #36 i think
And the next week they were still running ,the roadblock
were useless,they just jumped them those that could not just crashed against
them until the roadblock was no more
And the next month they were still runing, the loved ones
begged them to stop,but they dint listen,i dont think they could
And the next year they were still runing, they were like
zombies almost,but they still bleed ,running shoes filled whit blood,tendoms
out in the open,and the smell of sweat and blood and grime and urine and all
else was so potent normal people could not stand to be close,not that they
wanted anyways,at this point they were closing to the lap# 1740
Now No one counts the laps anymore
Even now they are still runing,bodies so wreaked by the sun and the rain and the snow
that they should not be able to move ,yet they were,no one knows why,and after
all these years no one trully cares anyways,they are now an atracction,they bring more
money to this town that any marathon could even compare,the smell was gone now,this was who we were
now
Even now they are smiling,they never trully stopped smiling ,even those that no longer had the ways to smiled were smiling,such high spirits could not belong to something living,such Happiness that could only
appear when you are a few metters away from the finish line
You just have to run a bit more and you will get there.