What is the strangest and/or stupidest thing you've ever done on a run with your team?

This one time, Alan Webb came to run with our team. We were crazy in love with him, so we took him on our best loop in the deep woods. Suddenly we heard these wild grunting sounds. We thought maybe it was people having sex. Since none of us except Webb had ever had sex or even seen a naked lady in person, we decided to check it out.

The terrible smell should have been a warning, because when we opened the bushes, what did we see but Bigfoot! The Biggy took off, but we still all ran away screaming. Not Webb. Oh no. He ran AFTER the animal. We were so scared for him.

It took ages for him to come running back, but when he did he was all scratched up and had a big handful of stinky brown fur. He was so mad at us for running away. So he made us all pull our shorts down and he whipped us with the stinky hair for being chickens.

Moral of the story - elite runners really are different from you and me.

Second moral of the story - Don't go up to an elite runner years later and try to talk about a crazy thing that happened once on a run. He must have been embarrassed by how he reacted because he pretended like he didn't know what I was talking about and threatened to call security.

Sophomore year of high school, winter. We were doing a silly adventure run through the woods where we'd stop if we found anything interesting to do (try to leap over the creak, cool trash, whatever). Anyway, were were deep in the woods running single file to navigate the thin trail/brush. I was towards the back of the line... Anyways, all of the sudden, all the dudes in front immediately do 180s and start walking fast/jogging back the direction they came.

Well, they were all bumping into us and in the chaos I didn't know what was going on, but then I saw it. This creepy as hell figure - dressed in all black - kind of rose from a squating position to a full stand about 15 feet in front of us. It was an old, but broad woman. I didn't see any skin because she was covered in black clothes and a hood. I didn't stick around to see her face, but she looked like a fuggin witch, and she may very well have been. She was probably just a homeless lady taking a dump, but who the F camps out deep in the woods wearing all black w/ a hood and stuff?

We were sufficiently creeped out, and when the rest of us saw it, we took off following the dudes that had turned around first.

What. The. Fvck. Bravo! This story was funny as hell.

I was running with a buddy though a very swanky section of town. Ran by two very cute girls (turned out to be sisters) washing their car in the driveway. 100m past, he convinces me to go back with him, he asks them out for that night to meet up with us at a bar that night, they do!

Not the best ending as he was the world's best opener but not a good closer, eventually gets on peoples nerves but it was pretty cool until he wrecked it.

if your stories involve animal carcasses, then please share more.

There was this house behind our school that was abandoned for a while, so we had the idea of wrecking the whole thing. broke every window in the house, punched holes in the wall, ripped the island off the ground, it was a swell time. We went to every room in this house and threw everything out the windows, absolutely destroying the place. this kept going until the cops got called and we were out of there just fast enough to avoid being arrested. house is completely destroyed until this day.

man, i have ones even worse than this that i just feel weird typing.

Race to the Gazebo! wrote:

Schloppy - No Bridges

Man, I miss getting schloppy.

dude, same

In HS a teammate came up with this idea of doing a food run. We would run to all the fast food restaurants near our HS and ask for free food. We almost always got something. Maybe a soda, or fries. Every once in awhile we got a whole meal. We would just ask for a free meal. I think they were so taken aback with 10 HS kids walking in and asking for free food that they just gave it to us. Then we'd just run back to the track and do our strides like nothing unusual happened.

Some poor HS coaches are reading this thread and deciding they are never going to let their teams run without supervision again!

After a long bus ride to a meet in college, we went on a pre race day shakeout run. It was getting dark so we decided to just go...ten minutes later a bunch of us realize that we have to take a leak, but it is northern Maine and snowing, so we don't want to stop. The obvious solution is to see how we'll one can pee while running.

Lessons learned...ones aim is significantly compromised...not a good thing to do while running in a pack (see lesson one)...when you pull you pants up, there is significant after leakage...but above all...make sure you leave time to shower and change before meeting your coach at the Olive Garden

I hope we all can learn from my mistakes

In the fall of my freshman year in college myself and other freshman on the team started to gather a large number of illegally obtained pumpkins in my dorm. We eventually had over 100. I drove a large brown chevy astro van my freshman year (i know, totally bad @$$) with which we loaded up all the pumpkins and then barricaded the entire front porch of a house where about 5 sophmore cross country girls lived. They were stacked so high that when they opened the door the next morning all they could see was orange.

Not the craziest thing we ever did, but still pretty funny.

During my freshman year, the coaches made me a sprinter because I looked like one. My events were the 200/300H/400. After my first season of XC on my sophomore year, they realized that I was a distance runner so they converted me to 800/1600/3200. One day, all of the coaches had to go to some meeting so they left us a workout to do on our own. I didn't approve of the workout because I thought it was too easy. I decided to run laps around the outer lane with 4 hurdles, each one about 100m apart. After about 5 laps of running hurdles at tempo pace, I messed up, fell on the track and broke my wrist.

I was out running with 3 guys from our soccer team. Then we came across a larger group of scrawny runner pu\ssies who were arguing over some stupid sh\it while they were apparently trying to discard a stolen kids bike. So we kicked their fu\cking as\ses like any sane person would have done.

I am reading this post....I hope you got some damn Penicillin, too!

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I hope you got some damn Penicillin.

I was dating an XC All American in college. She would run with the guys periodically on easy days because she could keep up with us and she liked to be with me. One summer we were running with a pack and one of my teammates made a comment about how we should stop and have sex in a filed. We liked the idea and did just what he recommended.

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In college, on our recovery run one day, we decided to run through Walmart. We had everyone stopped and half-way shocked to see 8 guys only in split shorts. I'd do it again.

We used to run to a nearby bakery(NYC) that had tons of free samples, it was absurdely good.

In HS: Team would frequently just run to 7-11 and get slurpies, gatorade, etc instead of doing the run our coaches told us to do.

One guy once sodomized another guy with a tree branch. The kid's parent's complained and the guy was kicked off the team.

Turned our splitshorts into thongs and run across the golf course in the rich part of town.

Hingle McCringleberry wrote:

In HS: Team would frequently just run to 7-11 and get slurpies, gatorade, etc instead of doing the run our coaches told us to do.

One guy once sodomized another guy with a tree branch. The kid's parent's complained and the guy was kicked off the team.