What are some of the worst excuses you have heard for a poor race?

I sprinted the first mile so that I could be in the photograph; after that, my legs were dead.

mighty porn stache wrote:

quenton wrote:

I had internal bleeding.

winner

someone on the girls' team at my school had this happen to them. She donated blood several days before a race, and the nurse accidentally hit an artery. I don't know if she was actually internally bleeding, but she was at risk. The whole area was bruised and nazdy.

Out da blocks wrote:

I sprinted the first mile so that I could be in the photograph; after that, my legs were dead.

Haha. This is going to be me at Footlocker South.

I'm white.

He was training through the race.

Used mainly by Oregon fans to explain poor duck' performances.

My dong kept falling out of my shorts and tripping me.

All this from one team mate:

"dude all I had was like a granola bar(or pop tarts) all day"

"I wasnt tired man, its just like my legs wouldnt go any quicker" -he was running 17mins. for a 5k as a D1 runner. . .

"i had something in my eye"

"man my achilles was acting up on me"-after the first two intervals on the track and taking out in front of our top guys the first two hundred meters. . .

plenty others, just gotta think and as my other team mates. i like this thread lol!

I had a hernia. And groin pull.

some butch south african cut me up

Read Joe Newtons book, it has a list of about 100 bad excuses in one of his chapters.

the virus attacked me at about the water jump

I suck

I coached a girl who told me, "I can't run in the rain because it makes my hair heavy."

long duck dong wrote:

My dong kept falling out of my shorts and tripping me.

Thanks. That made my day.

Last XC race of my HS career...I felt awful, had a bad race...coming down the last 200y or so, I tried to sprint but then had to slow down, and this happened several times. My coach got all over me, yelling about "you could have passed those guys, you just had to push harder" and all that.

I didn't have the heart to tell him "Coach, every time I tried to sprint, my nuts came out of my shorts", which is exactly what happened.

"I wasn't feeling it today."

Said after the Citadel Invite in fall of 2005.

I about had a coronary, and I wasn't even coaching the kid.

"trevor dunbar spiked me"

toomanyroots wrote:

Course wasn't Rupp-certified.

LOL