Dumbest thing you've ever done before a race?

I didn't put my number on and right b4 the gun went off my team was like..where is your number and so I ran and got it but right when I got back the gun went off so I basically started the race early..haha

I once decided to try a massage the morning of a 10 km track race. Never been so relaxed and run like such utter crap before or since. Learned my lesson.

Monty

go to an all you can eat buffet the night before, and actually eat all you can. The pucker factor was pretty high by the end of the race

I washed a pair of light weight trainers the week before a marathon, and ended up with bad heel blisters, as they shrunk. dnf'ed.

Also fasted the day before marathon, felt fine for 15, was running on empty by 20. dnf'ed

Both times at Motor City, Belle Isle, in '70's

Dropped a bowling ball on my toe the night before the Olympic Trials. After warming up, my coach asked me how I was feeling, I said, "I feel great, but my toe is killing me." "Why?" he asked, "Dropped a bowling ball on my toe" He laughed.

I ran like crap and afterwards he asked (looking at my horribly swollen and discolored toe) "What happened, blisters?" "I told you, I dropped a bowling ball on my toe."

Shaking his head, he said, "I thought you were just kidding."

So Malmo, you are living proof that runners don't make good bowlers!

Kiwi fruit before race=bad news. stick to the bananas!

LSD and peyote. Don't help for making smart race decisions when the clouds...oh, the pretty clouds speak blue into the bird.

Several years ago, I was an assistant coach for a girls track team in rural Vermont, just working with the distance runners.

Half an hour before the 4 x 800, I spotted a brazen freshmen about to woof down a hot dog....Despite my best efforts to convince her otherwise, telling her how this hot dog would ruin the race for her and the team, she ate to spite me (I was a bit on the young side and very much the asst coach).

Needless to say, she barely broke 3:30, when her pr was 2:55), the coach was furious, I was completely unsympathetic, and had I been the head coach, she would have been benched for at least the next two meets.

One of my friends dared me to slam a 2 liter bottle of Coca-Cola right after third and final call for my 400. I slammed the entire two liters about 90 seconds before the race. My stomach sloshed around violently during the run and my whole stomach felt like it was being shook like an unopen can about to blow. Some sort of noisy gas came out of me about 50 meters from the finish at full tilt that made the whole crowd go "ohhh! what the hell was that!" I lost it at 10 meters from the finish and puked out all 2 liters, which looked like about 10 gallons. I was sprawled out on the track and everybody was calling for an ambulance. Something went so wrong inside I actually shit my pants. I thoght I was going to die.

Night before the State Cross Country meet my Senior Year I did a 30 minute run on the track at my highschool with my Dad. About 15 minutes into the run I decided to leave the track and hit the roads, much to the dismay of my Dad. He felt I should stay on the track and just run easy with him as the chances of anything going wrong would be slim. Well no more than 3 minutes into the run on the roads I roll my ankle on the side of the road where the pavement meets the ground. Pissed beyond all belief I hobbled back to the track, to explain to my Dad what happened. He didn't say anything about his comments from before but i knew in the back of his mind he was saying "I told you so". Anyway I went on to finish 3rd to last in a race of ~160, running the worst time of my highschool career. Definitely the dumbest thing I've done before a race.

Well, the time I smoked an 8-ball of crack before a track meet was pretty dumb too.....but not that dumb.

Anyone who is into lightweight/minimalist shoes should give the retro Asics Ultimate 81 a try. It's the best shoe I've ever run in. But first, switch out the sock liner. The sock liner it comes with is like sandpaper. I learned this by running in them on a 160m indoor track Monday, with my first indoor race in 3 years this coming Saturday. I ran without socks in them for the first time because I had only brought one sock with me. The resulting combination of the tight turns and the awful sock liner left me with the biggest and most painful blister of my life between my big and second toe on my left foot. It was so bad that today I was able to pad it and run 5 miles, but barely. It's nasty. Hopefully it should be fine for Saturday, because despite the blister my workout was the best threshhold workout of my life.

I bet someone $10 I WOULDN'T win the race. :)

I ate six pieces of cheescake. Cut my PR from 1:56 to 1:54.

Dumb Runner wrote:

One of my friends dared me to slam a 2 liter bottle of Coca-Cola right after third and final call for my 400. I slammed the entire two liters about 90 seconds before the race. My stomach sloshed around violently during the run and my whole stomach felt like it was being shook like an unopen can about to blow. Some sort of noisy gas came out of me about 50 meters from the finish at full tilt that made the whole crowd go "ohhh! what the hell was that!" I lost it at 10 meters from the finish and puked out all 2 liters, which looked like about 10 gallons. I was sprawled out on the track and everybody was calling for an ambulance. Something went so wrong inside I actually shit my pants. I thoght I was going to die.

That's the funniest shit I've ever heard!!

HA HAHAHAHA. Dumb Runner you're the man.

I listened to my bio teacher who told me that i could increase my oxy in my blood supply by breating hevily before a race..i hyper ventilated before a race.. almost... passed out.. i was 11 / 7th grade...

Way back when I was a youngster ... probably around 1942 ;-) I decided that it would be a good idea to use some callous remover on my feet ~2 days before "the big race". I ended up with toe to heel blisters. ... nice.

I once put icy hot on the bottom of my feet before a race. ohmygod that burned so bad.

The other day I was massaging my low back and i was sweaty so it dripped down to my buttcrack. They it kept going further and further down until it really got uncomfortable. I'm a girl, so it then really burned down there and I think I went numb for a while. Icy hot isn't recommended for girls, or guys. Unless you want to be impotent for a while.