At a high school meet, I was watching the heavy man (weight throwers) 4x100 relay one year and seen what could have been a circus stunt gone wrong.
Watching the anchor of this one team was funny enough, but as he started to tie up near the finish he was leaning too far forward and realized he was going down. He just dove for the line and did a front flip and landed on his back.
Carnivore 69 wrote:
Vomiting all over the back of the dude who outkicked him.
what race was that? i know i did it once, and i'm curious if you saw me? it was my first collegiate XC race, and at that point, the longest i had ever gone before.
I've smoked a cig right after finishing a "Race for the Cure" in the top 10.
I'm a pretty heavy smoker.
At a dual meet in 1980's Southern California, this one jerk of an 800 meter runner easily won his reace, turned around, and slugged the second place finisher in the face as second place crossed the line. The official retroactively nullified his win, even though he'd already finished in first place before his assault.
I wonder if they had mixed it up a little during the race.
HS Junior wrote:
There are a lot of people getting really fast times in that shot. The lead was 14:1x, with like twenty people within like ten seconds of him. How long is that course? It can't be a full 3 mile or 5k.
There's a reason IL should have had 2 or 3 teams at NTNs, buddy. That reason will be aparent when York rolls everyone again. Palatine is still better than half the teams that will be at NTNs, despite losing to York by 83 points.
Anyways, the Detweiler course is very flat (imagine that in IL...), except for a long, verrrry slight uphill that you go up 3 times, the last being the finish.
Here's the course layout, 3.0 on the dot, GPS certified. The IL state meet is something to behold. Pretty rare to get a couple thousand spectators running back and forth to scream at the runners.
deak is saying, "i have a little deak, and i roll my shorts like a girl."
Straight Up Gangsta wrote:
Here's the course layout, 3.0 on the dot, GPS certified. The IL state meet is something to behold. Pretty rare to get a couple thousand spectators running back and forth to scream at the runners.
I love this: "GPS certified" !!!!!!!!!
3-0 on the dot
I watched a foreign runner come it without a number on and the officials were all over him, BUT he had run the whole way with a credit card in his hand and tried to explain his situation.
i know one of my friends won a local road race and in the finishing funnel he stopped and had a piss in full view of all th3e officials
One year at the simplot games, in the Medley relay (2-2-4-800) Obea Moore was about 1/2 a lap behind b/c his teammate dropped the baton early on. Some guy from another team was just dying and Moore was reeling him in. Anyway, down the last straitaway, this guy holds off Moore (Moore had gone out in 50.xx to try and make up the difference) by 1/2 a meter or so.
Immediately he starts celebrating and dancing around. Unfortunately for him, Simplot's track is wood and didn't comply to well with his slick spike plate. He fell flat on his face and then tried to get up and act tough again. I laugh everytime I think about it.
two years ago, at ncaa div II cross country nationals in north carolina, comming into the finish, with a national title in his hands, the guy from adams state, (know his name, just can't spell it), pretended to kick an imaginary soccer ball into a goal, then proceeded to hold up his hands like he scored the game winner.
This guy didn't finish the race, but it is still funny. I think it was the first Pre-Nats held at Terre Huate, a foreign runner pulled out of the race and so the finish crew tried to find him to get his timing chips. He thought he was going to get his team in trouble or something so he started running away from them. As they chased him over the fields he tried to eat his Number to hide his identity. Of course those things aren't normal paper and don't dissolve to well.
I remember A few years ago in the MIAC conference (Div III) a guy did a cartwheel across the finishing line. That was pretty funny and arrogant at the same time.
when Alan Webb broke the indoor 1000 record at the Virginia high school state meet...he crossed the line and immedietly collaspes to the ground and just lays there. everyone in the stands lets out a GHASP. "OH ALAN GET UP ALAN ALAN ARE U OK?" he still lays there motionless...
then over the intercom comes the announcer "and with that time Alan Webb breaks the national 1000 meter record!"
Webb immedietly jumps to his feet and pumps his fists and begins to jog victory laps around the track while every1 clapped...
it was funny
I tanked a marathon earlier this month at mile 19. Since I was jogging it in anyway, I thought, "What the heck!"
is that Wynne, Arkansas?
pumpkin wrote:
I tanked a marathon earlier this month at mile 19. Since I was jogging it in anyway, I thought, "What the heck!"
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At a cold evening track meet, the anchor leg of a 4X100 relay took his sweats off as the #3 guy came around the courve. He had slso taken his shorts off, which some guy tried to hand him. He took the shorts in one hand the baton in the other and carrying both across the finish line won the race (continued to run right out of the stadium)
Yep, it was ugly this year (hot & windy) and I can now confirm that training is not overrated, ha!