SURVEY: Have you ever DNFed, been DQed, or been DFL?

I love how people say they've never dnf'ed as if it's some great accomplishment. Most times it's because of injury. If you've never dnf'ed, you probably have never pushed your body to the limit.

I ran under a false name and was DQd from a race after I won.

DNF - Nope. But then again, I've never run a marathon.

DQ'd - Once or twice for baton drops. One time for taunting (also in a relay). And once for throwing a hurdle off the track after tripping over it.

DFL - Once in a college 8k XC race. I had already graduated, but I stayed for grad school and joined the university club team that participated in the home XC meets. I showed up at a race one day after work to watch my teammates race, but they were a man short for scoring purposes and talked me into racing 5 minutes before the start of the race. They had some extra shorts and a singlet and I had big pair of clunky trainers in the car. I had just eaten a Big Mac Meal w/ a Coke. No time to warm up. As soon as I got my shoes on they were lining up. I went out too hard and by mile 3 I was practically crawling with hellacious side cramps. It was brutal. My pace ended up averaging out to like 6:45 a mile and I was last out of like 100 runners.

DNF - nah, never. Thought about it plenty of times, and I've got some results that might just as well have been DNFs. Probably just a matter of luck that I've actually never done it.

DQ - nil

DFL - got plenty of these. All against younger (and apparently faster) competition.

DNF: Quite a few. I was a major head-case for a while at end of HS beginning of college. Also was a somewhat reckless steeplechaser with poor vision--had more than my share of crashes including at D3 nationals my sophmore year where I was involved in a major crashup and my teammate rolled his ankle on my face, so I DNF'd and he DFL'd because of the same incident. More recently I entered a marathon while injured (was in good shape, and hoped to get through without too much trouble from the injury).

DFL: Quite a few. See above. DFL in both indoor and outdoor 1500m at D3 Nationals my freshman year.

DQ: I was DQ'd in HS because a lane violation. Can't think of any since, but that doesn't mean it hasn't happened.

I've had quite a few failures, but I've also had successes (conf. championship, All American (D3), Win/Place in mid-size marathons, set a 5000m PR at age 33 after a long time away from the track), so I've got no major complaints.

Never DNFed, but should have, my coach made me run on an injury and I limped through the race, minutes behind the pack. Oddly, I didn't DFL. I was always kind of surprised at how there's always a few people with super slow times.

DNF - No

DQ - No

DFL - No

my junior year in high school my coach put me in the mile against two 4:0x milers and then a hand full of 4:teen milers.

my pr was 4:39

i got second to last in 4:40

there was a 15 second gap between the field and me.

really embarrassing

DFL at Penn Relays 10,000M. Got the sympathy clap from the crowd, along with the "way to lie about your seed time!" chants and the such from the peanut gallery... also, the crew started tearing down the finish by the time I got in (32:00).

DNF - No

DQ - No

DFL - No

DFC - Yes, often

(Don't F---ing Care)

DQ - no

DFL - maybe once or twice in track races that I was in over my head!

DNF - twice, once could not breath, the other I could not stop being a wuss (it never happened again after that!).

Is this a cheap shot at the old Farm Teamers? Those guys hardly ever finished any races. They would start out blazing and when they faded they would DNF to save face. Personally that means you got beat out by all the slow pokes in my book but they didn't think so.

I fell during the 4xmile at Penn and dislocated my shoulder...first leg...pretty embarassing..

but i did get to meet carl lewis in the medical room...

DQ: never, not very common in distance

DNF: never, but I probably should have in my last race, I did more harm than good running through injury and didn't even have a good race to show for it.

DFL: only once, in a 2 mile indoors, although one guy dropped out, so that made me slightly happier, my name wasn't last on the results anyway.

I hear the Penn Relays sympathy clap. Probably the worst racing experience of my life was hearing that intended towards me.

DNF: Twice. Freshman year of college at a XC race at elevation in Colorado (I think it was at Adams), I had bronchitis at the time and by half way I couldn't breath. The other time was my senior year in college at track meet at the UW. I was running achor on the 4x400 team and coming off the last curve I pulled a hamstring.

DQ: Once. Junior year of high school at the State meet. I was running lead off in the 4x400 and stepped on the line too many times.

DFL: Never. Although I was really close at the XC Club Nationals a few years ago in Portland. I was just getting back into running after taking about 6 years off after college and wasn't in near as good of shape as I thought I was. Man, that was a horrible race.

DNF: nope

DQ'd: yes, I was the lead off for a 4x4 relay, junior year of track. Had never ran in a relay before and forgot the command "runners to your mark, get set... go". Well, in my mind I heard "runners to your mark... go!" I false started like no one's business and ruined the 4x4 for the rest of the team. I got a load of crap for it. It was pretty funny actually.

DFL: gladly, no.

My only DFL was the state meet 2 mile my senior year. I had bronchitis and ran like 10:15 or so (qualifying time was 9:41).

Something tells me I also had a mild case of vaginitis too, which is odd. I don't remember smelling sourdough.

Oddly enough, my 5k PR of 15:03 was run at a meet where I DFL'ed.

Talk about not knowing how to feel after a race.