Forums >Off the Beaten Path>What's the (or one of) the funniest things that's happened to you when running/ racing?
You'll ruin your knees!
Now you know why cotton isn't a bad thing to have around when running.... There's been a couple runs I came back having given up at least part of a shirt.....
""...the truth that someday, you will go for your last run. But not today—today you got to run." - Matt Crownover (after Western States)
Now that was a bath...
Ahhh...that explains the blood running down your legs while you run...
Man, I hope Claire will post her recent TMI running experience... k
I get half way through a blissful 6K run this morning when a sudden and mortifying thought hits me as I realise that I am 'sweatier' than usual downstairs. 'Did I remember to put a new tampon in when I removed the old one?' It's hard to look down there and run (try it some time) so I stop and pretend to alter my laces. Hmmmmmm. Definitely a problem there. I can't decide whether to run fast and get home quickly or to waddle slowly and try and keep my legs together. I opted for a mix of the two which totally screwed my pace and made me look exceptionally stupid. Being summer I didn't even have an extra layer that I could remove and tie around my waist! This was my biggest running nightmare. Well that - or defecating during a long run. I remember reading a blog of an amateur runner who had an 'accident' towards the end of a marathon and had to keep running. My husband got evicted from the shower so I could clean up and he asked the stupid question - 'Why didn't you put one in for the run?' I don't know John. I like to paint and run at the same time! Modified to say 'I should have posted this on the 'general running' forum. I am sure the men would have appeciated it'
rectumdamnnearkilledem
Getting the wind knocked out of you is the only way to
remind your lungs how much they like the taste of air.
~ Sarah Kay
My dogs are fast, not me
OMG, that post still cracks me up!
Robin
A couple funnies, both scatological. If potty humor offends, you better skip the following: First story: Running the 1997 Chicago marathon, my first. I had not been warned that marathoners have a tendency to just go to the bathroom whereever they feel the urge. So I was shocked and highly amused at mile 5 to see three women walk about 30 feet off the road and all simultaneously drop their shorts and squat to take care of business. I'm not sure what was funnier: the fact that I was being mooned by three women, the fact that they couldn't bother to find a port-a-potty (or a bush or a car to hide behind), the fact that they all did it together (what? is that a group activity now?) ... or just the fact that this was only 5 miles into the race. Who the heck can't hold it for 5 miles? I've seen it enough now so it's not quite as funny ... but that first time had me giggling for miles. .
Your toughness is made up of equal parts persistence and experience. You don't so much outrun your opponents as outlast and outsmart them, and the toughest opponent of all is the one inside your head." - Joe Henderson
One of the funniest things that's happened to me is I raced a turkey. A real turkey. I was running one winter morning and there were snowbanks on either side of the road about 2-3 feet high. Well I come around a small bend and there are a bunch of wild turkeys in the road--this is on a pretty busy stretch of suburban road too. Anhow they all sort of scatter--turkeys cand fly when they want to--except this one. He/she starts running away from me. Slowly, at about my pace. So I'm about 6 meters behind this thing and it's running along in the same direction as me. This went on for a few hundred yards. A guy in a passing car thought it was so funny he rolled down his window to laught at me. "What?" I said, "I'm taking my turkey for a run." The turkey eventually turned off into a driveway and let me right on by. He knew he couldn't hold me off much longer.
You'd be surprised. Smart biological management is critical. Don't laugh. Potty threads serve an important purpose. For example - I now take a roll of toilet paper with me to every single race.
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Where do new runners come from? .................... I was just wondering - because it's clear from this thread that most of us are way too gross to ever reproduce. This thread should probably be classified. This kind of information in the hands of non-runners might be dangerous. To my sex life. On the plus side, I never really understood the phrase "too much information." But I think I get it now.
Kay, I do realize this thread is 3 years old, but it still cracks me up =D
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