Marathon leaders get lost, end up in traffic, take train home

This sounds more like an obstacle course than a marathon.

A few of the leaders of the Bangalore marathon got lost and had to borrow money to hop a train to the finish line after the vehicle guiding them missed a turn, while also dealing with the city's chronic traffic problem that included fed-up drivers heckling runners.

Indrajeet Patel and two other runners were making good time and ahead of the thousands of others in India's technology capital when they lost their way, The Wall Street Journal reported.

Roughly 15 kilometers into the 21-kilometer half-marathon course they realized the crowd had disappeared. The car they had been following missed a U-turn and they had all gone four kilometers in the wrong direction.

"There weren't enough race marshals to guide us through the course," Patel said. "We couldn't find any event organizers nearby."

The start of the marathon.Photo: AFP/Getty Images

Soji Mathew, another runner who got lost, said people on the street gave the runners directions and money.

"We borrowed 30 rupees from a few morning joggers to take a metro train to reach the station closest to the finishing line," Mathew said.

Dharmendra Kumar, head of the marathon organizers Protons Sports and Fitness Pvt., said the mistake occurred because a medical vehicle that was part of the team leading the race missed the turn.

Some runners complained the only way they could stay on the course was by following television news crews.

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