Funniest thing you have seen at a race

adward james almos

hardcore...

A few years ago during my HS league meet, one of the not-so good runners in the league who bore a resemblance to a werewolf (we called him team wolf) took off on the first mile. The race is basically in a desert, he was in 2nd place or so after the first mile (behind a guy who ran 9:10 or so for 2miles) and then just dies. As i passed him, i saw him trip and fall into the bushes full of thistles and hear a "CRAPPPP". Two other teammates further back in the race saw him puking on different occasions (same race), but i do think that he finished the race.

My highschool cross country team was in a meet that no one really cared about. So they stayed in the middle of the pack and at the 2km mark the all locked arms and ran together, blocking anyone from passing them, they did this for about 5 minutes before one of the coaches saw them and started yelling. We never heard the end of it from out coach.

[quote]dv wrote:

(we called him team wolf)quote]

do you mean "teen" wolf?

During a JV XC meet, there was a bridge about 200m from the start that the runners had to cross. The bridge was only about 8 feet wide. In many areas, you can run as many as you'd like in the JV meet.

The host team's runners all took off at a dead sprint, got to the middle of the bridge ahead of everyone, and stopped dead. The trailing runners couldn't all stop in time and crashed into the guys who had stopped. People were falling off the bridge into the creek and falling all over each other. There were a bunch of po'd coaches after that one.

jman wrote:

My highschool cross country team was in a meet that no one really cared about. So they stayed in the middle of the pack and at the 2km mark the all locked arms and ran together, blocking anyone from passing them, they did this for about 5 minutes before one of the coaches saw them and started yelling. We never heard the end of it from out coach.

Along the same lines, our team had resolved to form a "flying V" with the top 5 and block out everyone else as the path narrowed to about 10 feet in the first 250m. It didn't work because everyone went out too fast and the pain quickly overrode any jocular mood, but it would have been funny if it happened.

At the Texas state meet a couple of years ago in the girls 400 one of the faves. Well she took a dive at the line. Yea she won and it was her 4th title in a row but bless her little heart her hooter came out of her top when she dove for the line. I know she was gassed and all but I was hoping someone besides me 10 rows up would tuck it back in. They didn't for at least a minute to make sure she wasn't dead or sometheing. I won't name names but I think she is now some kind of hot shot for UT.

me and a teamate switched singlets during a race. i purposely tripped a guy once (oops...). once we surrounded a memebr of another team, and slowed down alot. we ran in a "C" formation, trying to copy the "Y" formation York HS does sometimes. it was raining once, and a teamate jumped belly flop style into a puddle.

We had a guy on our team that was about a 30 minute 5ker. Needless to say he hadn't ever beaten someone in a race. Here we are at the County Championships & he's running in the JV race. The guy is actually beating someone else for a change, then not even 100 meters from the finish his shoe falls off. He then goes back & puts it back on & is passed by the guy he was beating. We were yelling at him to keep going, but that didn't change his mind.

well..if you were a bit older, you would know the movie "Team Wolf"

which is what (i assume) he is referring to

The movie was called "Teen Wolf"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090142/

then i guess he meant "teen wolf"

I was running a marathon in Florida. They also started the half marathon at the same time. At about the mile mark, we had to cross an intersection. The cop puts his hand up and stops traffic as the first group goes through the intersection. There is a small gap between them and our group. As we are coming to the intersection, the cop turns, holds his hand up to stop us and starts waving the cars through the intersection.

We had a mentally retarded kid on our team in high school. We all loved the kid, but he finished in last place every race.

So, we are running a race against our big rival and we are all pumped up. The race is basically a 1-mile run out, a 1-mile loop, and a 1-mile run back.

I finish up the race, and we are looking for our fifth guy- hoping for the win. We were shocked to see the retarded kid lumbering down the final stretch. Our fifth guy came around the corner in a full sprint. He runs, but he can't catch the kid.

The retarded kid had skipped the 1-mile loop in the middle. Luckily, it didn't effect the scoring because our fifth finished right behind him, but it was still pretty ridiculous.

We won the meet, and we gave the kid the "best race" award... which he still has in his room.

Isn't that a heartwarming story?

My wife ran the '98 Disney Marathon in Orlando. I was not going to be kept in the regular friends and family area, so I jumped a fence and went near the start. It was about 5:30 in the morning, dark, on a closed Interstate, and nobody was around. I was at about the 600 meter mark into the race.

It was the first big Marathon I had seen. I was trying to film my wife at the start. I think there was about 12,000 starting the race. Needless to say I never saw my wife, but what I did see was everyone and their mom pulling off to the side to take a leak. Plenty of guys, but also plenty of women pulling the shorts down and doing their business. I was laughing so hard I could barely film, but don't worry I got plenty of footage.

hahah....that's better than that marathon where half the field got stopped for about 20 mins by a freight train

mr obvious wrote:

I was running a marathon in Florida. They also started the half marathon at the same time. At about the mile mark, we had to cross an intersection. The cop puts his hand up and stops traffic as the first group goes through the intersection. There is a small gap between them and our group. As we are coming to the intersection, the cop turns, holds his hand up to stop us and starts waving the cars through the intersection.

At the Sundodger Invitational in Seattle lasy year, some dude took a piss out the side of his shorts on the starting line.

" i purposely tripped a guy once (oops...). "

-not funny. you are a complete idiot. seriously.