Embarrasing running moments

Awards ceremony at the Hood to Coast this year on the Sunday morning. After 3 days of intestinal inactivity I suddenly feel the urge to offload a few powerbars, some bananas and a lot of candy. Off I hobble to the last remaining Honeybuckets on the beach and select one towards the center of the line.

After a few minutes I can hear female voices in the pots on either side..."do you think there's anyone in there?"... "I dunno, knock and see"..."naa don't knock just bang on the wall" THUMP THUMP THUMP...(more female voices arrive and it starts getting very noisy out there)

I'm in the middle of a good 10 minuter and the door starts rattling...."ANYONE IN THERE???" "err yes, almost done" "giggle giggle giggle tee hee" pitter pat of tiny feet.

Once I had finished my business I opened the door to be greeted by the whole Baba Yaga team and half a dozen camera flashes...they were trying to pose for a photo in the Honeybuckets and I was getting in the way and ruining the shot. The girl who was supposed to go into the one I just left didn't look too keen, and I don't blame her!

Jeez, there's three to choose from...

There was the time I ran into a tree during a cross-country race - that was pretty messed up.

Then there was the time I was warming up for the long jump. Someone cut me off during strides. I cussed him out in a pretty loud voice. Turns out it was Father Gedrose, the principal of the Catholic school that the meet was at.

Or there was initiation at Oregon State, where I was in the Porta-potty by the track. The upperclassmen tipped it over.

All three made me want to crawl into a hole. Great subject.

Sophomore year of high school, early spring meet under the lights with arch rival team, 50's and pouring rain. Starter tells us to peel sweats and get in the blocks for the 400. I pull down my sweat bottoms and wind pants, then peel off my sweat shirt. Got into the blocks and realized that all I was wearing was my singlet as I had accidentally removed my shorts with my sweats. Naked from the waist down, I was glad that the weather had reduced the crowd in attendance as I scrambled for my shorts. I finished next to last.

Last week when I was running, I jumped over this chain that was blocking off a parking lot. Unfotunately, I didn't quite clear it, and my right toe hooked the chain flipping it up in front of me, and catching me in the gut. Though I didn't fall, I felt like I had just gotten punched in the stomach and had this big red line across my waist.

Also, one time running in a park by a flooded and very very dirty river just outside Detroit I slipped off the riverbank and fell in. Wasn't a good thing.

PS- Not exactly running related, but never ever use the hip adducter machine in running shorts.

so My training buddy and I are talking about workouts one day, and we start arguing about this one I claim to have done in the past few months... It wasn't much, just a whole bunch of quarters at 75/s pace with a short rest, but for whatever the reason he doesn't believe me.

So I make a $30 bet with him I can do 30 quarters w/200 jog (jog must be in 50s or less) at 80s/faster each quarter...

I'm thinking yeah I've done this before and its going to ve a piece of cake...

My friend makes the bet for the day AFTER our graduation party, where I am still feeling the effects of lets just say a long night, and to top things off we do it in the middle of the day during 30+ degree heat!

I show up at the track wearing a wife-beater that reads- "30 quarters?" on the front and "been there, done that"

on the back.... My friend gets a kick out of this, anyways its time to get down to business so after a short warmup the track work begins...

So I get through the first 10 and think I'm gonna die, but want this money real bad (not to mention to prove him wrong)... to make matters worse, he is eyeing me like a hawk and paying close attention to his stopwatch, making sure each quarter is 80s, no slower....

this may sound easy, but after a night of partying and in hot weather, it gets tough...

after 25 I'm ready to give in, but see I have only 5 more...

I feel a sharp pain in my right leg and realize it is not worth it to wadger money on a stupid bet vs. getting injured on the 27th repeat, so I pack it in here....

having finished the last one in a nice 65, he shows some mercy, I only owe him $20 and a slurpee!

I sure felt goddam embarresed after talking up this workout and failing to complete it!

What the hell is a honeybucket?

30 degrees? Hot? You must be talking centigrade.

Its a Portapotty

My race today was flat out embarrassing.....17:11 after a 16:25 a month ago.....

Two main ones, first one pretty typical. My college team was doing a workout one winter of 2-3 min hards/ 2 min jog. I had come home from class early before practice and got bored and decided to make some bran muffins from a recipe off a box of bran flakes cereal. I didn't plan on eating any that close to practice but I did sample some of the mix from time to time.(many samples) one the warmup I did make a pit stop at a gas station but apparantly take care of everything. The windchill that day was -60 degrees. It was freaking cold.

About a third of the way through the workout I had to go again so I hit the woods but discovered that my hands were too numb to untie the drawstring to my sweats which were over top two pairs of tights. I kept trying but the workout was going on and I decided to tough it out rather than tell my coach I couldn't finish because I had to shit. On the very LAST repeat (of course) I started dropping off bad. It was either stop or keep going(literally) and when it rains it pours. This definitely would have been a two flusher. Then I decided I might as well piss while I was at it.

I ran the cool down with a huge visible cloud of steam surrounding me the whole way. Alone.

The other one was at a track camp in high school. Sprint/hurdles coach was having us do drills over low hurdles where you hop over a series of them with feet together. This was in front of about 120 kids and I lost my balance and crashed head first into the second or third hurdle. Of course Seagrave made me feel better by making some crack about "uncoordinated distance runners."

I was running the 1500 at the USATF Junior Olympics meet in Sacramento and was running like shit, when I finished I clipped my spikes and bounced on the track across the finish. The 3000 people watching had witnessed something only achievable by myself.

Dude, surely there's SOME way you could have undone that drawstring!

I was the heavy favorite to win the 10K outdoors at the conference meet. Sh!t myself at three different points during the race. I still won, but barely. The girl who got second came up to me after we finished and tried to give me a hug. I had to tell her that she should probably stay away.

I caught this on YouTube:

Some girl loses her balance on the treadmill, but salvages the fall by grabbing onto the bars. She’s hanging on, but her legs are dragging on the belt. The belt peels her leggings right off, revealing thong underwear. At this point, she lets the bars go in a frantic attempt to pull up her pants, and proceeds to be thrown off the back end of the TM anyways.

Scarred for life wrote:

I caught this on YouTube:

Some girl loses her balance on the treadmill, but salvages the fall by grabbing onto the bars. She’s hanging on, but her legs are dragging on the belt. The belt peels her leggings right off, revealing thong underwear. At this point, she lets the bars go in a frantic attempt to pull up her pants, and proceeds to be thrown off the back end of the TM anyways.

Is it still on youtube?

Drew Peacock wrote:

Scarred for life wrote:

I caught this on YouTube:

Some girl loses her balance on the treadmill, but salvages the fall by grabbing onto the bars. She’s hanging on, but her legs are dragging on the belt. The belt peels her leggings right off, revealing thong underwear. At this point, she lets the bars go in a frantic attempt to pull up her pants, and proceeds to be thrown off the back end of the TM anyways.

Is it still on youtube?

The one I remembered is at 2:20 but there are several others as well

Scarred for life wrote:

Drew Peacock wrote:

[quote]Scarred for life wrote:

I caught this on YouTube:

Some girl loses her balance on the treadmill, but salvages the fall by grabbing onto the bars. She’s hanging on, but her legs are dragging on the belt. The belt peels her leggings right off, revealing thong underwear. At this point, she lets the bars go in a frantic attempt to pull up her pants, and proceeds to be thrown off the back end of the TM anyways.

Is it still on youtube?

This one is better. Check out at 1:57