What is the best trash talking mid-race you've ever seen?

Zatopek was running with Jim Peters to whom he had introduced himself before the race. Somewhere around the 20k mark he said, "Jim, the pace - it is too fast?"

To which the proud Peters replied, "Emil, the pace -- it is too slow" and picked it up. But he was bluffing of course and Zatopek completed the triple.

Thanks for filling in the details, Joe! That was a long time ago

Coghlan pumping his fists in the '83 WC's 5000 knowing he was going to blow the Russian away in the last 200 was pretty sweet.

Saw Lassiter give a couple of pumps to the crowd at Penn before dropping K Sullivan in the mid 90s. This was pretty low as Lassiter got the stick way ahead of Sully and Sully ran a great leg just to catch him.

So I have two... One road 10k, a group of four (two sets of friends) of us were leading, out in front by a pile. As we passed a water stop about halfway through, one of the runners grabbed a cup and tossed the water in my friend's face. As only this friend could say, he responds, "I'll thank you not to do that again." We all congratulated him on his awesome comeback.

In an open track meet, some hs guy was racing with the big boys. He said something to one runner as he passed him going into the curve. He then continued the tangent straight to a port-a-potty and we never saw him again.

ALexi santana,

Alexi Santana wrote:

I once saw two guys maybe from Uconn and Gtown get into a swearing/shoving/punching match in the first mile of a cross country race, have other members of the field chastize them for their stupidity, and within 400 meters they had apologized to one another and continued to race.

When did this act of stupidity happen? I can gurantee that it did not happen in the past 4 years, at least not in a cross race. Get your info right. However, if your talking about track than thats a different story.

During one of my h.s. 1600 races-- about '92-- there was this guy who was probably 10-15 seconds better than anyone else (he was running sub-4:20 and we were barely breaking 4:30 on a good day.......anyway, he takes it out like usual, the rest of us tuck behind him, and this idiot freshman (I applaud the effort, but he couldn't hope to break 4:45) tries to pass him on the homestretch of the first lap. The stud looks at the frosh and says "If you try to stay with me you'll throw up."

At the beginning of a few road races we would do the Animal House scene. Piont at our hated rivals and scream at them 'DEAD!'. It usually worked.

This occurred a while ago (1974) but still ranks as one of the best lines I've heard in a race. Big HS invitational meet in WI, with a huge 2 mile field. As typical, some guy gets a wild hair and blazes the first quarter with a huge lead on the pack. Of course, he begins to fade quickly and the field catches him, going around him like he is nailed to the track. The eventual winner (and state XC champ) looks at him with disgust as he goes by and says, "if you're gonna die, do it in the 2nd lane". Got quite a few chuckles from the field.

I didn't see this first hand, but I've heard the story so many times I can see it in my mind. During a college indoor meet in 90 or 91, the DMR came down to 2 rival schools from the same city (Moravian and Lehigh). Lehigh's anchor got the baton with a decent lead, but the Moravian anchor was gaining on him with every step. With 2 or 3 laps left, a Lehigh coach/fan yells to their anchor, "You better get moving, he's gaining on you!" The Moravian anchor hears this and replies, with his high pitched voice and antagonistic tone, "That's right, here I come!" Tru to his word, he's moves into first and finishes there.

Damon R

hey, alexi santana is my name! only one of us should con princeton at any one time. i'll go first.

worst trash talking.......Boaz at NCAA's last week he was leading the 3000 when he started pumping his fist and holding up the number one sign about halfway through. About 1 lap later cragg blew by him and never looked back.

Alternatly Cragg possibly missed setting a collegiate record last year at penn by holding up the number one sign on the home stretch.

I wasnt there but i heard lassiter almost got busted by matt holthaus in a relay at penn a couple of years ago. Something like he slowed down to wait for him and then almost got outkicked? I wasnt there so i dont want to say exactly what i heard happened.

running: in the middle of a race one of my old teammates enjoyed saying 'race me bitch' i'm pretty sure thats a nebraska thing...

xc skiing: john keane (ND) put his pole between my skis when i was passing him at the end of a race and made me fall...after the race i think i hit him with my pole and there was swearing involved...its hard to fight on skis though, i should've stabbed him ;-)

Little runts talking trash. Puny weasels scratching and pulling each other's hair on the course. Every time I come here you puny little queers give me a laugh. Let me give you a recent example of what happens when one of you little runts cross Mr. Chest.

Yesterday, it was nice out and Mr. Chest went for a drive in his Lexus. Up ahead running in the road like he owned it was a fag little runner in his gay little split shorts. He had plenty of shoulder on the road but, like all of you little sissies, he thought he owned the road. Big mistake. An even bigger mistake was when he gave Mr. Chest the finger for running him off the road.

I slammed on my breaks, slammed it in reverse and pulled in front of the runt. I jumped out and told him I was going to teach him some manners. His eyes nearly popped out if his head when I ripped of my shirt and grabbed him. This one was more puny that most of the ones I stomp and he bounced off the pavement like a rubber ball. I put a knee on his throat and beat the slapped him around until he begged me to let him up. I obliged. Then I threw a left hook and followed it up with an uppercut. He slumped against my car and fell to the ground, blood gushing from his nose. I then kicked him in the ribs for good measure. As he laid there moaning, bleeding and holding his ribs, I told him to thank Mr. Chest for the lessons in having some manners he just received. Mr. Chest is always glad to teach you little runts some class. Ha ha hahaha.

One time when I was still in high school I shared the lead in a low key 10-K road race with a guy who might have been in college. We were about 2 1/2 miles in when he suddenly turns to me and says, "I'm going to get the better of you today because I'm fairly certain you have a very small penis." As he said this he pulled forward and then quickly released the waistband of his shorts, offering a token glimpse of a very average-sized male member. Without saying a word, I dropped the waistband of my shorts to mid-thigh and let my prodigious member waggle and slap around about my kneecaps for a few moments. The other guy said nothing - just gave a grim, tight-lipped nod. He dropped back soon after and I won the race by just under 3 minutes.

English National Cross Country at Leeds (about 1982). Mick McCleod and Dave Clarke have broken away. They come to part of the course that is directly into the wind. Clarke "do you want to alternate into the wind" McCleod "Fuck off" Clarke "OK" Clarke surges drops McCleod to win his first National title.

Mr Chest I believe that assult and battery. You could be facing jail time if you get caught. I definately wouldn't be bragging about it on a message board. Maybe in jail you will see some guys that push real iron, and you guys might even get intimate.

One day you will bark up the wrong tree. You need to get a life. If you hate puny runners and running so much you would even bother with this site......you would keep the though of running far from your mind as possible. If you reply to this it just proves how much of a sinceless bully you are, angry because you probably got banned for using some roids. I know for sure you had to do some type of field event....Shot, hammer....or the Jav..most football players i know were way to slow and to big for the 100m dash 13-14secs.... grunted their guts out in the above events.

yo- I don't remember that at all, and I think I would if it happened. I could be wrong... But I don't think I'd risk breaking a pole mid-race. If it did get stuck in there, it was probably an accident. Anyway, I'm pretty sure you must be thinking of someone else, because I would at least remember someone "hitting me with a pole" after a race.

yo- I don't remember that at all, and I think I would if it happened. I could be wrong... But I don't think I'd risk breaking a pole mid-race. If it did get stuck in there, it was probably an accident. Anyway, I'm pretty sure you must be thinking of someone else, because I would at least remember someone "hitting me with a pole" after a race.