Craziest thing to ever happen to you while running?

A buddy and I were doing intervals(I can't remember, but I assume 800's) on a track near a psychiatric hospital. At 300, we saw a woman running into the parking lot, by 350 we saw a police vehicle chasing her down. She continued to run towards the track (which circled the football field) as we continued our second lap. By the time we reached 700, the security guards were chasing her as she climbed the stands of the stadium and jumped! We heard the thud with 50 m to go. She had some broken bones. Security had to call an ambulance. She was crying in pain, security was comforting her.

We did cooldown lap and proceeded with another 800. The ambulance and town police and other security came but we just kept on running.

To this day, we both acknowledge that we are awful human beings. We never went to ask if we could help, to assist in anyway. I do wonder if I would have stopped to help if it were a regular run, placing the workout in a more protected status. The sound of the body hitting the ground is something I also will remember.

This was at least 12 years ago and obviously, not a proud moment.

I saw two guys having sex in a public park...

This one time at band camp.....

ew

Ewww

Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!!

there's nothing u could have done, other then get in the way, since the security guards were right there.

I was running around a lake with a bunch of trails doing a longer loop. When I came out of the trails into the park area I started to pass this guy and he starts trying to race me.. I was like what's this guy's problem? I dropped him pretty quick. So as I came to the park area people were yelling at me nice job, looking good, and my favorite "way to go superman" because I had a superman shirt on. I thought to myself this is weird so many people are cheering me on...

SO I go back into the woods for about another half mile and more and more people are cheering for me. Finally I get into a clearing where the swimming area is and I see like 200 people. It's too cold to go swimming, and I thought ohhh it must be some family reunion. Then I see flags around and I realized that I was in a race? Then the announcers get on the loudspeaker and say "Here comes your champion lets bring him in!!" This lady pointed to me and said go this way. I had to go that way anyway and I crossed the tape and I turn to everyone else and yell "I'm not even in the race!!" So I jumped the flags and continued on my run only to be passing the other 100 people in the race telling me good job. Poor guy I passed, I must have demoralized him..

Got attacked by a hawk. Would dive bomb me with the sun behind it. I took off my shirt and tried to deflect it.

Ended up running into a stop sign and fractured my patella.

That reminds me of a time I was in Orlando for a business trip. I tried to do some mileage out of my hotel. Not knowing the area, I just ran the same out-and-back every day.

Around half a mile into the run there was this bird that kept swooping down at me and scratching and pecking at my head as I ran by. It would do it a few times and then leave me alone. When I would come back it would do the same thing. I finally had to run by the area watching out for it and waving my arms above my head at it to get it to keep its distance.

i was doing a session on the track on bonfire night- 5x 600m or something and on the second rep i got hit in the eye by a piece of debris that came from a firework. can remeber feeling a hot sensation but no pian strangely enough and being really confused then looked at my top and there was a little lump of burnt plastic on it.

attacked by an owl -- twice. never saw him, neevr heard him, just felt his claws go into ther back of my head twice as I screamed like a little chick. Seriously.

I had a bat attack my head, grabbing me with its claws- it jsut felt like little points since I was wearing a hat. At first I thought it was just some little branch I ran into, but there were no low branches. My next guess was a bird, but I realized it was a bat when I saw it later swooping by me over the trail.

....1974 was the 'spring of the streak'......4 of us distance runners decided we had to get in on the action so at sunset, we decided we were going to streak sorority row, which was about a block long. As we piled out of our car and started sprinting that block, some rat had obviously tipped them off, as girls were suddenly out on the balconies and porches hooting and hollering and snapping pictures. Thank God I had a ski mask on, along with my Adidas Gazelles. We really didn't want to run into a crowd, but simply wanted to say we 'did it' with minimum exposure. (pardon the pun).

Those of you old enough to remember, will remember how 'streaking fever' swept the college campuses and some high schools that year. At my little brothers high school graduation, some guy streaked across the football field in front of the stage full of the administration. I thought my grandmother was going to faint.

I was only in 6th grade in 1974, but I do remember all that steaking. My big brother who was a senior in high school that year, got suspended for 3 days along with another 2 guys for streaking the bus dock, after school was let out.

Rounded a corner during a training run over the summer behind PSU's Golf Course. Ran right into a bear, face to face. I actually saw into its eyes and saw the blood vessels on its retina. I got extremely frightened and the next thing I knew I was about 100 yards away on a trail. Another runner/race walker was coming by and he wondered why I was so freaked. I showed him the bear and said I ran into it. He still doesn't believe me 25 years later, but he does acknowledge being there and seeing me freaked out. The next day a bear had to darted from a tree in front of Old Main. I'm sure it was "my bear."

You could have struck a blow for humanity.

Oh the sense of LOSS!

"sob"

[quote]justintherunner wrote:

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Sounds about right.

I was stung by a bee in my right Achilles. Ouch.

A car hit a goose right near me on a run recently. The driver was freaked out and crying, not knowing what to do. I thought it was dangerous for a goose to be in the road, so I picked it up and carried it to the side. It died in my arms. Luckily no bird flu.

Two stories:

1. Rounded a corner and ran into a bear face first. Actually saw the blood vessels at the back of its eyes, through its pupils. Next thing I know, I'm 200 yards away from it, and a friend running the other way saw me and wondered why I was so pale. At least I could verify my story.

2. Our college team was out in the mountains on a run when a bad storm came up. It turned completely dark and lightning was hitting nearby trees and it seemed like something out of Apocalypse Now. The rain was so hard that our sweats became so saturated that they became stretched out twice as long as normal, making it hard to run at all. We couldn't find the van for a long time because of the darkness and when we finally did, it was locked and the keys weren't in the usual spot. I commented that at that point we were no better off than the earliest human ancestors huddled in the trees and I came up with The Primal Seven: Cold, wet, tired, hungry, lonely, scared, and thirsty.