A couple of years ago I was lined up with some friends to run a 10k. Just before the shotgun went to start the race one of them yelled out that his name was Dan T., a well known local runner, and that he was going to kick everyone's ass in the race. It was pretty funny at the time and since then I have see a few people try to pull it off at other races.
A few years back, at the beginning of the XC state meet there was a team that right after the gun, during the first 400 meter sprint, they shouted out in unison, THUNDER, THUNDER, THUNDERCATS! AHOO!!
It was pretty funny... seeing as how this race meant so much to everyone and the pressure was intense.
i have a few. My teammate said in highschool dual meet the other team was taunting him early on so he mooned them mid race. At my conference race (my conference was sick) we were running the 3200 and when we crossed the mile in 4:59 3 kids from one team started laughing at the time. Then the field got serious and I took 5th in 9:34. At the same conference meet a year previous we had a 9:01 3200 runner in it so he just ran with the pack then took off later, so naturally our pedestrian pace was not making him tired whatsoever. I clipped some kids shoe off his heal and he has to run to the outside to stop and put it on. The 9:01 guy remarks "What the f*** was that!". Then of course you always see the people that dress funny at road races.
Blue Devil Roll Call.
Small meet. I was our leagues top runner and a senior so the other team figured I would win easily. We had trained through the meet and was just supposed to run hard enough to win. Their top runner was a freshman who ran about a 5:10 mile. I lead the first lap. Let him catch me the second lap. Halfway through the 3rd lap, I let him take the lead. He was about 10 yds ahead of me when we finished the third lap. His teammates were going nuts thinking he was going to beat me. They were yelling how tired I looked and how he was pulling away from me. I caught him with a half lap to go and ran the last 220 in 28 seconds beating him by about 60 yds.
I thought it was pretty hilarious but my coach didn't see it that way.
I was running my first half marathon and with just 2km to go a guy in the full marathon (started about 1hr 30min earlier than the half) stops and plains jumps off a 30m bridge to cool off in the river, uhmm?
i ate too close to a race (in my defense, the start time was moved up), had some food stuck in my throat and sneezed a chuck of sausage out my nose around 2.5 miles.
i'm pretty sure it hit someone.
wow!! wrote:
A few years back, at the beginning of the XC state meet there was a team that right after the gun, during the first 400 meter sprint, they shouted out in unison, THUNDER, THUNDER, THUNDERCATS! AHOO!!
It was pretty funny... seeing as how this race meant so much to everyone and the pressure was intense.
the Shenendehowa boys did the thundercats chant at Footlocker NE in the junior race 3 years ago.
I knew of a 17 year old high school 903 2 miler who used to taunt the older guys in local 5k races. He would talk the whole time saying stuff to a small pack of 3-4 guys leading going through the 2 mile mark like "I am going to outkick you anyways so just go away now". It was pretty humorous especially when the same kid misjudged the finish line around a sharp turn and a local guy in he taunted beat him to the finish. He and his dad tried to complain to the race officials about the finish line after. What a baby!
At one cross-country invite some guy was shouting at the beginning of the race he said something like "god, it's hot." So some other guy screams "your mom's hot" and the guy says "actually everyone at my school thinks my mom's a milf." I got tired of the dumbass conversation and sped off.
this wasn't actually during a race, but anyway...back in my junior year of hs, at the xc region meet there was a team in the box next to us that started doing a little chant (the gay ones that some teams do at the starting line). they were edgewater high school, so they started going "edgewater water, you know we bout it, bout it"...and so on, the only problem is that their timing couldn't have been worse, because in the middle of the chant the gun goes off and they are still standing there like a bunch of retards. as soon as the gun goes off, all 16 or so teams start laughing hysterically for the first 1/2 mile of the race. interestingly enough, one of the kids on the edgewater team gets in a shoving match with the kid who ended up winning the race.
At districts one time this kid goes into the last 100 meters and turns around and gives the kid behind him the bird. Hes a legend lol....unfortunately he got disqualified.
At college during an easy run. We bandit the intermural 5k that circled campus. 2 things that will always stay in my mind:
my roommate sprinting full force past this 60 year old, getting about 10 yards ahead of him, pretending to be tired, hands on knees, panting and out of breath. The old guy runs by. My roommate yells "No!" and sprints by the guy again, brushing him as he does so. He repetaed the above about 6 times, brushing him each time, panting stopping and picking up again..
At the end the same guy and another teammate decied to have fun with the finish. The finish rounded a corner and went for a 50-yard sprint to the line on the IM fields. They sprint around the corner full speed. Everyone is cheering at the close/fast finish. About 5 yards from the finish the guy behind the other one just tackles him. He starts pretending to beat the crap out of the. Everyone freezes as they have no idea what to do.
Oh, and another time during a road race me and my friend were running a good race and then....comes a giant hill. Out of the corner of his eye he noticed a shopping cart..he says to me "f**k it" and grabs the cart and rolls down, everyone was laughing uncontrollably.
In a half marathon ( America's Finest City half in San Diego) I was just pacing a friend and I was running pretty easy. At about mile 10 there was a guy on the side of the road making Margaritas for the runners. I thought, "what the hell", so I swung by and grabbed a margarita and downed it!
was it mcdougal? he ran in college races while be home schooled and he and his brother were whiny bastards and his dad had a mullet
wow!! wrote:
A few years back, at the beginning of the XC state meet there was a team that right after the gun, during the first 400 meter sprint, they shouted out in unison, THUNDER, THUNDER, THUNDERCATS! AHOO!!
It was pretty funny... seeing as how this race meant so much to everyone and the pressure was intense.
I believe the Thundercats won a state title that year didn't they?
Shen scored 40 points that year in the A race at States, back when NY was only 4 classes instead of 5.
My jock strap broke during a track meet on a windy day in the spring of 1977. We wore these baggy black nylon shorts. I had quie a cheering section, mostly girls, by the end of the race.
bulldog35 wrote:
I knew of a 17 year old high school 903 2 miler who used to taunt the older guys in local 5k races. He would talk the whole time saying stuff to a small pack of 3-4 guys leading going through the 2 mile mark like "I am going to outkick you anyways so just go away now".
Wow. I wonder why he even bothered running these races?