It wouldn’t be in the spirit of the competition which is important to the sorts of runners who do these races. As one example, a few years back at the original

It wouldn’t be in the spirit of the competition which is important to the sorts of runners who do these races. As one example, a few years back at the original race, it was down to two runners but one had to catch a plane back home to his country and they both agreed that it wouldn’t be a fair way for the other runner to win, so the two of them quit after something like 3 days of running and there was no winner that year.