straggler

Momoを読んでいます。
What followed was a chase in reverse -- a chase in which countless grey figures were pursued through the city, at a discreet distance behind the last of the stragglers, by a girl with a flower in her hand and a tortoise under her arm.
今日覚えたい単語は上に出てきた "stragglers" です。辞書の説明を読みます。
・Cambridge English Dictionary: a person or animal that is last in a group to do something or the last to get to or leave a place: We watched the last of the stragglers come in, three hours after the first runner.
・Wiktionary:
a.One who straggles, or departs from the direct or proper course, or from the company to which he belongs.
b. One who falls behind the rest.
・Example from Wordnik: We notice one straggler, apparently disoriented from lack of oxygen to the brain, making his way up the slope.
昨日10kmのランを走りましたが、８月の初旬に捻挫をして以来２ヶ月程ジョッギングを休んだのでなんとか完走しましたが、ほとんど "straggler" の状態でした。