Worst Insult You've Heard in a Race

Running a dual meet as a Junior, I had run 15:49 earlier that year then I got sick which turned out to be Cancer, this guy that I beat by 30 seconds earlier that year says, "Hurts doesn't it?" as we are running up a hill. I reply coolly, "Your girlfriend said it did when I was f***ing her!"

He gets irate and starts to try and punch me as we run but I get a little ahead of him and he can't do it. I am really hurting now as every minute hurts as bad as the last 100m. He gets back up to me and stops trying to hit me because we were near the coaches.

Sad to say that he beat me that day. It made me sad because he was so bush-league to trash talk another runner like that. Also, I could tell that my year was over. I didn't know what was wrong with me, but I knew it was bad and every step felt like running in water.

Jesus, I hope that guy felt bad when he found out the reason he beat you is because you had cancer!

Thanks, but No, the cancer went undiagnosed for six months. I was about 50 seconds off what I had run at the beginning of that Fall for the rest of the season. I ran indoors with a little better luck (and energy) before my body gave out in the beginning of outdoor season and I just couldn't train and ran several 4:54-56's in dual meets.

They looked a lot deeper into it after that and found that I was sick. Didn't get to run in Conference or Regional or State Meets that year (or the next) and that guy graduated that year. Never saw him after that. Still remember his name though. He was the only guy that ever trash-talked me during a race in my whole life. I always thought we were better than the guys playing with balls and didn't need to do that.

I guess some us weren't.

At an indoor meet in the 4x200m relay, the winner team's anchor running used to baton to "snipe" out the 2nd place team's anchor by turning around and aiming the baton at him like he was shooting him. Douchebag move.

in high school they let all, i mean all, the scrubs run in the 2 miler and one kid was awful slow and the other team laughed at him and yelled that he ran like a retard ... turns out he was ... and then later we heard the coach screaming at the kid who finished last that he got beat by a (*&()ing retard ...

When I was a college freshman many,many years ago, I was racing a 3 mile (back then we only ran 5000 during Olympic years).I had been battling it out all race with a guy and on the last straight as we were kicking it in he turns to me and says "BYE BYE F---ER". Needless to say, I completely lost it and he whipped me. I will say, however, that over the next three years he never ever came close to beating me again. He gave me lots of motivation to kick his a--.

I'll never forget the worst insult in a race I ever heard it was "Are you an American ?".

I've been running races for about 7 years and no one has ever said anything negative (that I heard). Adult runners might be different than kids.

Generally adults competitive runners are good sports and you feel a connection with whomever you're trying to destroy on the course.

Often you're like fighters after a fight and have a sense of kinship after the race.

Maybe you should take up cycling and win the tour de france 7 times.

Glad to hear you are still with us to rip on ;)

After winning the 15-team Oak Harbor Invitational 3200 after Kinney (now Footlocker) CC champion Scott Fry DQ'd because he jumped the gun, I was showered with chants of "you suck, you suck, you suck...". My coach turned to the crowd and said "Come on!" Some big fat guy then said, "well he SUUUUUCCCCCKKKKSSSSS!!!!!!"

I lauged at the time and stood atop the podium to get my medal, but I thought it was pretty lame later for them to yell at a high school kid like that.

A guy was standing at the side of the track with his stop watch in his hand. As we ran past him he yelled out "JANUARY....FEBRUARY....MARCH....

So then what happened? I hear cancer has a mean kick.

The best insults aren't words. A kid on my team in college once passed a rival and just screamed at him like a rabid animal. Then he dropped him like a bag of rocks.

It was awesome.

Flagpole Willy wrote:

I was showered with chants of "you suck, you suck, you suck...". My coach turned to the crowd and said "Come on!" Some big fat guy then said, "well he SUUUUUCCCCCKKKKSSSSS!!!!!!"

Apparently you suck.

Someone I know tells a story... he was racing Ovett over 800m. With 200m to go, having melted through 600m, Ovett turns to him and says matter of factly and hardly breathing "im going to go now" and off he went...

not an insult, but still, funny as hell!

At a small 5K race my training partner was racing a girl to the finish. As my partner overtook and passed the other girl, her husband yells out (very loudly), "Read about it, bitch!" I nearly peed in my shorts.

I don't understand why that is funny????

digits wrote:

At a small 5K race my training partner was racing a girl to the finish. As my partner overtook and passed the other girl, her husband yells out (very loudly), "Read about it, bitch!" I nearly peed in my shorts.

I got into a fast international race once that I had no business being in. I was lagging badly at the back of the pack when at about the half way mark in this 10K, someone from the sidewalk says: "Esta practicandu por el ano que viene" (He's training for next year")

It was after a race.

This runner chick with short shorts had finished the race and was having some water...well, unbeknownst to her, her monthly visitor had arrived and had soaked her crotch and was running down her leg.

This dude walks by, points to her crotch and says "plug it up".

Nasty