Wildest Training Run Encounter

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This wasn't really an encounter. But its still a good story.

It was the night of the bonfire for our high school and we had practice about an hour before. Before the fire they have a cookout at the school and then parade over to a park for the fire and such.

On our run we see the parade and run by. we eventually work our way to the school and see left over hot dog buns in a crate from the cookout. we all take a bunch and hide behind some buildings. when they walk by we all throw them at the football team and then run away really quick. the next day they thought they were apples and one kid nearly got suspended.

I ran into a nude beach and decided why not take a swim myself. The running clothes stayed dry, I cooled off, went on running again.

Running through a nearby village in the late hours of an evening I was disconcerted to be heckled by a group of youths. Jokingly, I slapped one of the more vociferous girls on the arse as I went by. Unfortunately, she didn't take too kindly, and set off in hot pursuit, exacting her revenge by taking a fistful of my $%^*^$£"!

Ellis wrote:

...taking a fistful of my $%^*^$£"!

does that mean what I think it means?

It sure does!!!

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It wasn't a run, but it'll do:

Nov 9- while cycling, heard a loud noise to my left. Before I could look, heard some clattering and a fawn appeared in my peripheral vision. Before my hands could reach the brakes, the fawn leaned left and dashed past, 2" in front of my tire. I was too surprised to stop. I would've crashed hard on my left side had we connected.

Back to running stories......

In H.S. we spent a vacation in the Berkshires - Lennox Mass I think. Anyway I was out for a run and this car full of girls drove by, stopped, and one of the girls flashed me.... I waved and kept running... About 5 min later the same car came by again and another girl flashed me.... I can't remember if I clapped or waved but they seemed to like that so they drove a little farther - jumped out of the car - like they were doing and chinese firedrill and all four flashed me...... They kinda seemed to follow me and when I finished my run at the Inn we were staying at they all came up and talked to me... It was pretty cool - and I got a couple of BJs out of it in over the next few days.....

1. Went on a run in Kaiserslautern, Germany in this big park two days in a row. On two first saw an old lady with saggy boobs sunbathing topless and on the second ran past a young couple having sex next to the trail.

2. In 2005 when I was in Iraq I went for a run at night at Al Asad Air base because I figured the air base would be safer than the little foward operating base I was usually at. About a mile into my run 6 incoming rockets streaked across the sky and landed 400-800m off to my right. I hid behind a trailer for about 30 seconds and then hauled ass back to my part of the base.

3. Not exactly a crazy experience, but still a fun story. While I was in Iraq in 2005 I spent the majority of my time working out of the Haditha Dam. The top of the dam within our perimeter was about 2km long. About once every week or two I'd have time for a run, but we had to be armed at all times within our base because local Iraqi civilians worked in the dam. So when I'd run I'd wear my green shorts and shirt, mizuno running shoes, ballistic sunglasses, and carry a M-16 in one hand and a mag or two of ammo in the other hand.

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I remember seeing a story a while ago on here or tnfnorth perhaps about a pitbull on a run around Vancouver, up to a dam. It was hilarious and if anyone could recite it or bring it back up, do it. I remember the guy swinging a raging pitbull around and around, about to chuck him over the wall of the dam before he attaced some kids. Crazy shit, let's hear it again!

Don't know the pitbull story, but got another mountain lion one...

Working in northern Montana this summer, out on a 16 mile trail run around dusk. I was yelling before corners, mainly for the sake of bears...you really don't want to surprise one. Anyway, I came around a corner and there was a mountain lion staring at me about 10 meters away. I stopped, it turned and jogged down the trail ahead. I walked for a while, yelling and shit, and then kept running, head-checking a lot, hoping I wasn't about to get pounced on.

About a half hour later, when I'm turning around, it starts pouring rain and the temp. drops about 15 degrees. I'm still shirtless and start hauling ass, trying to keep warm. Still yelling before blind corners, but sure enough, within about a mile of the first siting, I come around a corner, this time with a mountain lion running down the trail in front of me (about 20-30 meters). I assume it had heard me yelling, and was just running to get ahead and out of sight. With regular hikers this would have worked, but I was running about 5:30 pace, and kept running for about 10 seconds, completely in shock as I was closing on this mountain lion and it seemed to have no idea that I was right behind it. Finally, I yelled again, it looked over its shoulder at me disinterestedly, picked up the pace, and dropped me.

I was running this summer on a back road and I came uon a doe and a fawn. I get closer and the doe takes off...the fawn stands there lost. Then it starts to take off, it totally wipes out on the road, gets up and looks around. The doe is long gone now...I just kept running. Well, the fawn starts running with me. Then it starts darting in front of me from one side of the road to the other. It was like two feet in front of me each time...it was crazy. It's like it was messing with me, just kept darting in front of me...this went on for like a quarter of a mile. Then all of a sudden it must have figured out I wasn't a deer and man it started freakin' out. It took off and ran straight into a chainlink fence. It went from fun to "oh shit" real quick. It wouldn't come near me anymore so I just finished up my run.

We were finishing up a run once and we were BS'ing one another like usual, but this one guy would always take it personally. When he as upset he would sprint 20 meters ahead of us and run "alone." Anyway this happened as we were running past a dead deer in the ditch that was hit by a car the week before. One of my teammates runs down, rips off a leg and goes in full sprint laughing like crazy chasing this kid holding the deer leg up over his head. It was hilarious. (the kid who got chased was a good guy, we all liked him, but he couldn't handle the heckling)

Besides having a standoff with a black bear on the same trail and running into a bobcat on another ocassion, my wildest training run came last year when on vacation in Christchurch, New Zealand. It was about 6 in the morning and I was running through the rose garden of a botanical garden. Coming around the corner of a trail into a grass opening, there was an orgy going on. Not something you're used to seeing, so had to take a second look just to believe my eyes. Then I high tailed it out of there.

wow, I spent way to much time reading these posts this morning. Great stories though.

I've got two.

1) During a long run around the city I hear a car horn, I look over an this guy is waving at me. I had no idea who he was so I just kept going (note: I'm a guy so other guys dont usually wave at me). About 5 k later this same car passes me hoking and waving, so I shrug it off. Two more times during that same run (and this was about a 20k run all over the city) this same car honked and waved. I still have no idea who it was.

2) I decided to take a new route to some back dirt roads, I'm listening to my ipod and in the zone when these two big german sheppards start barking and running across their lawn towards me (I'm on the side of the road). They were not tied and I had just enough time to realize I was going to be attacked by dogs. They stopped right at the edge of their property and kept barking. I had stopped in my tracks but then just kept walking and for the next 1 K I kept looking back. They must have had some kind of electric collar/fence thing. Scared the crap out of me, never ran there again.

I remember reading a story on here somewhere about this guy running down a trail and a there was lady with three large dogs walking towards him. As he passed the three dogs started chasing him and he looked back and the lady was being dragged on the ground by the dogs. Pretty funny.

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