"You have really small tits!" from a dude in a truck stopped at a light as I'm running by. I'm a guy. And shirtless.
"You have really small tits!" from a dude in a truck stopped at a light as I'm running by. I'm a guy. And shirtless.
"Lookin' good. You gotta pick it up!"
Said every person ever when struggling during a race
I was running the Twin Cities marathon and miles 21-23 or so are largely uphill. Some dude was pacing his friend. The dude pacing was totally fresh, while his buddy was feeling it. I was running near them.
Guy to his friend: "When is the F#@#@# hill gonna end!?" His buddy responds. "Umm,we are actually going downhill. It just looks like we are going uphill because there is a hill ahead."
It was my first marathon and I was hurting. I didn't find it funny until I thought of it a week later.
The nicest thing was when I was running for the bus in my work clothes at the time (sensible leather shoes, tucked-in business shirt, pressed slacks). The bus driver told me I looked like a springbok. That one still makes me smile because, in reality, I have no knee lift and look like a draught horse.
"Run faster, pus\sy!"
Actually not yelled at me but at a teammate at Hood to Coast in the middle of a night by two drunk rednecks in a pickup. Then they threw a beer can at him.
I was running through some nearby trails wearing just split shorts and ran past an overweight lady walking in the opposite direction. Right after I passed her I heard her say in a typical sassy black woman voice, "Damn! You shit out that ass?" I've never laughed so hard.
i was running 8-9 minute pace on a track after a long run and walkers asked me if i was a professional runner.
I had a really cool comment one morning last summer. I was running in the park by my house with a friend and we were cresting some hill when a ripped guy with his 3-4 year old son and wife just points at us and goes "Now there are two real athletes!"
Also had one guy ask if I was on crack while doing a tempo around a one mile loop.
LennyZ wrote:
I was waiting for a buddy of mine to do a road bike ride when he called and said he would be 20 minutes late. I was already kitted up in my cycling garb and didn't know what to do for the next 20 minutes. I had to return a DVD rental and I am about a mile from the store, so I decided to grab the DVD and run down to drop it off.
On the way down I passed a half dozen high school teenagers (boys and girls) hanging out and clearly bored. When I ran by they were all silent and just gawked at me. I did look pretty stupid running in my padded lycra shorts and team jersey.
On the way back, a girl sitting on a retaining wall with a guy said, "you look disgusting in those shorts." Of course, I was waiting for something to come from these punks, so I was more prepared than normal. I turned and said, "not as disgusting as you would look in these shorts."
I guess the guy must have been her boyfriend because he stood up and started chasing me. I have never had so much fun running about 20 feet in front of a guy while turning around laughing. It didn't hurt that it is a slight uphill grade back to my place and he stopped once and then started again!
It has got to be an all time runner fantasy to be able to outrun a guy trying to "beat you up." Of course, I am a runner and a wimp at heart, so I made sure not to run directly home in case they could see where I live!
Ha! Good stuff.
Bucky Lasek wrote:
Renewed Marathoner wrote:Damn that kid looks like Rambo.
Note- I have a bit more muscle than typical long distance runners but I certainly do not look like Rambo haha.
Thanks for the clarification. I was sitting there thinking "DISTANCE RUNNERS DONT HAVE MUSCLES" This explains it though, because you pointed out you're not typical (have more muscles than distances runners), thus beefing up your own ego and doing that thing where you are trying to say something but dont WANT to seem cocky (like when some one says "No offense, BUT...").
Simmer down, you insecure doosh canoe. The guy was just giving some context to his story by saying he has "a bit more muscle." This thread is entitled "Best comments...." That's all he was replying to.
And why jump on this guy and not everyone else who posted nice comments they got from girls while running. Are they "beefing up" their egos as well?! I suspect the fact that the poster has more muscle than you really made you feel bad about your own skeletal-like physique.
comments r good wrote:
Right after I passed her I heard her say in a typical sassy black woman voice, ...
She didn't say "Kapooya!"?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOwF0TOv9pIUmm, where was Kapooya's shirt? Just a really low tube-top? That was really awkward to watch.
WarmNFuzzy wrote:
Also had one guy ask if I was on crack while doing a tempo around a one mile loop.
+1
I had heard all kind of comments while running in the past 20 years.
I like doing "magneto loops" during my morning runs. One goes through posh neighbourhood, up a long hill. At the top of the hill I always met an old guy, who was uttering random comments, sometimes clapping. One early morning I heard him shouting: "I missed you yesterday, did you sleep in, were you lazy, or too fast?" Next morning he said: "Right on time, Zatopek, see you in Sydney. Looking strong and smooth." I heard about 1000 comments from this guy and usually nodded to him a said good morning. He even learned my name somehow, probably recognized me from newspaper, and used it in his comments. Then, about 8 years ago he stopped coming out in front of his fenced off huge mansion. One day I had bumped into a middle aged lady coming out of his villa, so I had stopped and asked whether the old guy was allright. She said, he had passed away month ago, and why I was asking. I told her about our morning "conversations" going on for more than a decade, and she smiled and said - my dad was olympian, a miler, and said his name. Of course I immediately recognized his name, since we had just a handful of really good runners in my country. Too bad I did not know it before, I would have stopped and talked to him, aked his autograph, or something... I always think about him, when passing his house, sometimes even uttering "mornin".
I apologize. that was not my intention. Honestly I consider myself average and the point of the comment I'd consider equivalent to saying I'm a bit taller, shorter, etc than normal distance runners. (all of which aren't anything to brag about, which I wasn't trying to do).Believe it or not, not everyone here is trolling; I'm a person too. Please Try not to forget that on mssage boards.
Take care.
cool. name?
Forrest child wrote:
I had heard all kind of comments while running in the past 20 years.
I like doing "magneto loops" during my morning runs. One goes through posh neighbourhood, up a long hill. At the top of the hill I always met an old guy, who was uttering random comments, sometimes clapping. One early morning I heard him shouting: "I missed you yesterday, did you sleep in, were you lazy, or too fast?" Next morning he said: "Right on time, Zatopek, see you in Sydney. Looking strong and smooth." I heard about 1000 comments from this guy and usually nodded to him a said good morning. He even learned my name somehow, probably recognized me from newspaper, and used it in his comments. Then, about 8 years ago he stopped coming out in front of his fenced off huge mansion. One day I had bumped into a middle aged lady coming out of his villa, so I had stopped and asked whether the old guy was allright. She said, he had passed away month ago, and why I was asking. I told her about our morning "conversations" going on for more than a decade, and she smiled and said - my dad was olympian, a miler, and said his name. Of course I immediately recognized his name, since we had just a handful of really good runners in my country. Too bad I did not know it before, I would have stopped and talked to him, aked his autograph, or something... I always think about him, when passing his house, sometimes even uttering "mornin".
"You have the body of a Kenyan".
Said by a Kenyan in Kenya. I'm a very white Englishman. This made me happy.
Before a XC race my teammate told me everyone (from other teams) is looking at me, intimidated. I wasn't that great but I had the build of a professional (super skinny like my Kenyan teammates). I told him too bad it is just the way I look.
Many years later in my mid 30s, I just happened to be working in a place where the UK Olympic team ended up having their pre-Olympic training camp, a few days before the opening ceremonies. I was out doing my ordinary run after work, a 10 miler, and these guys go zooming past me on the road. They were doing some kind of race simulator or perhaps just practicing getting their water cups because later I was catching them and only running about 6:30 pace. I never got too close before they would surge again but I was close enough that I kept passing their support van before it moved up the road. They never said anything to me, but the support van guy kept looking at me like "who the f*** is this guy?".
My neighbours drove by me whilst I was about a mile or so from my house towards the end of my run and asked if I wanted a lift, lol!
Had 'nice legs' a couple of times, another time a girl mooned me