Possible Clues:

• Has this been, by the sound of it, on the go or vegetating?
• Participant in a race
• A foot racer or a creeping step
• Athlete - mat - bean
• One might have been sounding scarlet with this
• Smuggler; a bean
• Type of bean for an athlete?
• That gets up for a second
• One may do this to escape an old policeman
• Possibly one that comes with a rider