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Some of the leading runners in the Bangalore marathon lost their way and ended up having to borrow money to take a train to the finish line after the vehicle guiding them missed a turn. Indrajeet Patel and two other runners were making good time and ahead of the thousands of participants in the marathon in India’s technology capital when things went terribly wrong. Around 15 kilometers into the 21 kilometer half-marathon course they realized the crowd had disappeared. The pace car they had been following had missed a U-turn and they had all gone 4 kilometers in the wrong direction. “There weren’t enough race marshals to guide us through the course,” he said. “We couldn’t find any event organizers nearby.” In a separate incident, a woman who was running the full 42-kilometer marathon ran five kilometers in the wrong direction before she was brought back to the course by the organizers.