Funniest thing you have seen at a race

a guy finish a college cross country meet with no shorts on, only a jock strap. a heavy downpour made his oversized shorts very heavy and fall right off.

9th grade. 4x400m. tight race. our anchor leg is on the track waiting for the baton in 8-10 seconds. everyone is hyped and cheering. suddenly coach yells, "tony, take off your sweat pants." in the excitement tony forgot he had them on, and he wouldn't be able to sprint 400m in those baggy, heavy things.

in one big yank, off came the sweats AND his shorts. the hand-off's coming in 2 seconds and tony, in a wild-eyed panic, takes the baton, runs 400m and wins -- WHILE ONLY WEARING AN OLD-SCHOOL JOCKSTRAP!

he was our biggest, fastest guy, built like a horse in more ways than one, and with only that jockstrap on, his junk looked like a wild ferret confined in a small sack, as he raced down the home-straight.

whirledpeas wrote:

9th grade. 4x400m. tight race. our anchor leg is on the track waiting for the baton in 8-10 seconds. everyone is hyped and cheering. suddenly coach yells, "tony, take off your sweat pants." in the excitement tony forgot he had them on, and he wouldn't be able to sprint 400m in those baggy, heavy things.

in one big yank, off came the sweats AND his shorts. the hand-off's coming in 2 seconds and tony, in a wild-eyed panic, takes the baton, runs 400m and wins -- WHILE ONLY WEARING AN OLD-SCHOOL JOCKSTRAP!

he was our biggest, fastest guy, built like a horse in more ways than one, and with only that jockstrap on, his junk looked like a wild ferret confined in a small sack, as he raced down the home-straight.

Your man crush on Tony is a little creepy but it is still your right. good luck with that.

I remember watching a guy finish a college xc race wearing boxers under his racing shorts, I never really understood why but I guess maybe he had put his racing shorts on and realized that the lining was not there?

At our conference track meet in college the short's liner of the guy that won the 10k broke about a mile into the race, he had to keep holding himself in every time he ran passed the crowd.

Ran a steeplechase ran and was in the lead. Jumped a barrier one lap and came up to it the next lap and there was a big pool of blood on the ground. The guy behind me caught his trail leg and went straight down on his knee splitting it wide open. I jumped extra high the rest of that race.

HS 800 meters, this kid had to goto the bathroom really bad on our team just as the race was about to start. Anyways, he wanted to finish the race quickly and get over to the bathroom. He took off and about 100 meters into the race he already had a 5 meter lead and suddenly unloads a big crap all over the track, the first guy in the chase pack slips on his dung and suddenly 2 other people get taken out of the race as well. The kid eventually ends up winning the race and 3 other racers had fecal matter all over them.

Losing to this freak was sort of funny. http://www.runnerspace.com/video.php?do=view&video_id=1171

THAT DUDE IS A FREAK! hE ALWAYS HAS TOO MUCH ENERGY ON HIS SHOW, AND IT'S OBIOUS HE NEEDS TO RUN MORE OR GET LAID MORE OFTEN!

It was within the first mile at Roy Griak in 2006 and it was pretty muddy that year. I notice a shoe sitting in the middle of big puddle of mud and it's the same kind as my team wears. I remember thinking to myself, "Gee, I hope that's not from someone on our team." After finishing the race, I find out that my buddy hadn't tied his shoes on well and lost one of his spikes in the mud and then the other almost came off and he had to stop quick and take it off. He didn't want to get in trouble for losing his shoes, though, so he hangs on to the second one for the rest of the race. Basically, he ran 4 miles in his socks, carrying a shoe.

http://www.prettysporty.com/Photos/GriakXC2006/WGoldM/pages/DSC_0347.htm

Sorry to double post, but I found a great finish photo for him. You can even see his mud-covered sock that he's wearing.

http://www.prettysporty.com/Photos/GriakXC2006/WGoldM/pages/DSC_0623.htm

Ashamed wrote:

Losing to this freak was sort of funny.

http://www.runnerspace.com/video.php?do=view&video_id=1171

not that weird, you see guys in triathlons running like that all the time.

1) We had this old guy (three kids, he was probably 40 or so) join our college track and field team because he still had eligibility. He ran distance for us in track and often refused to stretch before running because he was afraid of pulling something. So it was his final race of his career at the conference meet and he was running the steeplechase. He was well on his way to a PR heading into the last barrier when disaster strikes. He tripped on the barrier, fell face first onto the track and had his glasses (with strap) break in the process. He ended his career with a big DNF.

2) Another time we were running stairs inside (yeah, our coach was fat and a thrower) and the old guy decided it was too hot to be wearing his shirt. So he took it off and it was Casper meets Austin Powers. I and another runner couldn’t stop laughing. As much as we tried to hide our laughter, he saw us laughing. He asked me what was so funny. I wanted to say a 40-year old guy with three kids and a white, hairy chest running stairs makes me laugh. But my big V dried up and I told him nothing. He was livid the rest of the “run” and I am glad I had a group to walk home with instead of being alone. Things were never the same between us.

3) Finally, there was one time when me and two or three other guys were running in a local park for 10-12 miles. We came around the corner of a trail and saw three old guys ahead. Only one of us knew what was going on until we all got up there and saw. I have tried to put it out of my mind, but it was either a one-on-one handjob with the other guy watching or all three guys giving each other handjobs. A gives B, while B gives C, while C gives A. And I’m talking old, not a 40-year old with three kids and a white, hairy chest, but three guys who could get a senior citizen discount at Denny’s. They didn’t stop until we got about five feet from them. We were just silent and starting busting up about 15 feet past them. We later saw groups of two or three middle-aged men coming out of the woods.

I'm confused by several of these posts.

You know these aren't random stories, but are supposed to be funny stories right? Some of these barely have a point, much less something that's considered funny.

I think it was the Yuengling Shamrock Sportsfest Marathon in March 2007. Unforgetable sight.

LOL. Yep, that could be her all right!

At a XC tournament, one of the opposing team's JV runners brought their own speakers and BLASTED Soulja Boy and proceeded to have poorly choreographed slow motion seizures to the song. It was a grotesque spectacle, to say the least.

It was a women's 1500 at Michigan. The starter directed the girls to peel down and one girl did a little more than the others. She had forgotten to put her shorts on under her tights.

a stud on our team was running the 1500 or something at a super small early season meet. We look over at him toeing the line and he has an (unlit) Cigarette in his mouth and big goofy shades on. my coach b-lines across the infield to chew him out, but as the gun goes off he flicks away the cig and takes off. somehow didn't get in any trouble or anything.