Originally Posted by Ms Tippy Toes
The race usually gets repeated on S4C 3 or 4 times throughout the week.
Very sad. My condolences to Mark Lear's family.
Amazing innit? Sounded like a really fit bloke as well. Just can't predict, can you? Condolensces to the family.
Its very very sad for the family and friends, although he died doing what he enjoyed.
Took the worlds right out of my mouth.
Yeap, not something that very nice to hear.
Yeah I thought that was good. Sad as it is these things do happen in any sport and outside of sport and sometimes there is nothing anyone can do. I thought the race organisation was brilliant. For such a big race everything went smoothly.
Bwlch Glas to the summit was really bad this year, runners were getting fractious because a walker had stepped across them for the nth time and walkers were getting fractious because a runner had banged into them for the nth time. If the race could organise access to the train track for just 1 hr it would make a massive difference.
In the race I had an OK time, good climb up but gut issues on the descent meant I had to do 2 'Paulas' and dropped 2.5 mins on last years descent and finished 40 seconds slower. I was not in a good mood after the race but news like the above certainly puts things in perspective.
Hi all,
Wish I was writing my first post on this forum in different circumstances.
Mark was my uncle and as you can imagine it came as a massive shock to the whole family.
He was indeed very fit and was always out running or cycling and has been ever since I can remember.
It is some comfort that he died doing what he loved in a beautiful part of the world however he won’t be very happy with himself that it was on the way up and not on the way down!
We found out to day following the PM that he died of a heart attack as a result of heart disease.
It is my understanding that it was very quick indeed. There was a female runner, we only know as Gillian, who was right behind him. She told the doctor he just seemed to lose his footing then sat down. She stopped and could see he was in difficulty. He was barely breathing. She put her arms around him and within seconds he went unconscious. Seconds later another runner, an off duty paramedic stopped and tried his to maintain his blood flow with CPR.
The doctor arrived a short time later and efforts continued until he was air lifted of by C flt 22SQN and taken to ysbyty gwynedd but was DOA.
It is likely he suffered very little and would have just thought he had a stitch and was trying to power through it.
The event organisers did a great job on the event and have been very good to my family after the incident.
I, and the rest of the family, cannot thank everyone involved enough for their efforts especially Gillian who made sure that he was not alone.
If by any chance Gillian reads this please could she make contact as I know my family would want to speak to her personally.
Thank you all for your posts on here. It’s nice to see kind thoughts from strangers.
Martin
Sheepy,
May I offer my sincere condolences to you and the family. I can assure you that the off duty paramedic, he's my cousin, would have done all he could to save Mark's life, he was with him within seconds, probably just behind Gillian, don't know who she is sorry. I spoke to him later on in the day as he came down with the train assisting another runner who had taken a nasty tumble near to where Mark collapsed and I can tell you he was quite upset. He sees things like that quite often when he is on duty but must have come as a shock when it happened on Saturday. Should you need his telephone number at all just ask and I will send you an e-mail.
Thanks
Snowdonia Jogger
I dont know if it would work, but to find gillian you could maybe look at the results and try and find her on there.
Then contact the organiser and explain why you want to contact her. There may be something about confidentiality with giving contact details out but surely there would be an acception made.
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