Murphy's Law of Running

Someone will ask you whether you run marathons upon hearing you are a distance runner

Frito wrote:

What distance?

Mile

Tom Hanks wrote:

At some point, someone will yell "Run, Forrest" to you.

The second response of a thread topic will be the first of many not to follow the theme.

You run through a soccer goal that someone placed on a sidewalk, instead of going around it on the lumpy dirt, only to trip and fall flat, necessitating a trip to a medical facility.

You train like a madman for months to achieve a BQ time at the XYZ marathon, then come down with a raging fever the night before the race, and do not have to strength to even get out of bed for the next 18 hours.

SO FVCKING TRUE

plus one wrote:

SO FVCKING TRUE

but not Murphy's Law. Please stay on topic.

Murphy's Law wrote:

Two cars traveling opposite directions will always cross paths right next to you.

What are some of your examples?

When running on a trail, at the moment when you are going to past someone in front of you, someone comes the opposite direction forcing you to either sprint ahead to try and make it before they meet, or stop and wait for them to pass.

Yeah, some of these posters have no clue.

malmo wrote:

plus one wrote:

SO FVCKING TRUE

but not Murphy's Law. Please stay on topic.

When your running on trails and you haven't passed anyone for miles, the moment you stop to take a piss on the side of the trail, someone will turn the corner and see you.

Chairman Wow wrote:

A headwind in a track race that blows in a 400 meter ellipse pattern.

The rain storm that starts when you begin your run and ends when you finish.

The answer to both in jeopardy style:

What is living in New England

JB

None of these are examples of Murphy's Law. These are statements or observations. Murphys' Law is a whimsical irony with a negative outcome that is in contrast with a positive expectation.Stick with the theme.

Tom Hanks wrote:

At some point, someone will yell "Run, Forrest" to you.

722 wrote:

Someone will ask you whether you run marathons upon hearing you are a distance runner

Matlock wrote:

you're running and suddenly you find yourself coming towards a biker, and you start doing "dodging" movements.

asdfsad wrote:

Despite what you read on running message boards, an Ironman is much more difficult than a marathon.

asdfsd wrote:

No matter how much money you pay your idiot coach, you'll never break XX. The information is available - don't pay someone to give it to you.

sad songs wrote:

You just keep getting injured. Over, and over.

Your feeling great going into mile 20 of the marathon about to set a new pr, mile 20 then happens

You call yourself a distance runner, but you've never run a long-distance event in your life.

MenosDos wrote:

5. The heat sheet says you will be the fastest seed in your heat, but due to scratches, you are last in a fast ass heat

watch out for those ass heats

You wait for it to stop raining and it does, but then within the first half mile you step in an unexpected puddle.

You cancel your gym membership because you never use it because you just run, but no sooner than you do so you get injured and need to cross-train on the eliptical.

You're in the best shape of your life for the big local race and hope to finally beat your local nemesis, but then for the first time in years, he's a no-show.

malmo....

Murphys Law: What can go wrong, will go wrong.

So "Keep getting injured. Over, and over." Does fit with murphys law.

malmo wrote:

None of these are examples of Murphy's Law. These are statements or observations. Murphys' Law is a whimsical irony with a negative outcome that is in contrast with a positive expectation.

Man you're so cool what with your extensive knowledge of Murphy's Law

Okay, Malmo, this should qualify: You're running against traffic, like you're supposed to in order to dodge cars that are coming directly at you, only to have some driver who is turning right from a side street plow into you because he ignored the stop sign and didn't bother to look to the right.

You are on a ten mile out and back. You have been holding a poop in for the past 4 miles. The last 1/2 mile you are having to pinch you butt cheeks together using that awkward running motion. You reach the bathroom and crap your pants!