Worst prize you have won at a race

One of the best threads in a long time.

Got second place prize of a free membership in a small gym. Strangely, it was located in another city. Third place was a computer printer.

In terms of quirky prizes, I won a cooked turkey already dressed and sitting on a platter at a turkey trot. We had already bought a turkey, so there was plenty to go around that year.

Another quirky prize was one of those round frilly badges with two dangling ribbons that you'd normally get for winning a horse jumping competition. It was for a cross-country race.

A baseball catcher's protective cup.

A snuggie blanket. I regifted it for Christmas.

worst prize = no prize

a kazoo...for winning the under 20 age group.

A toy replica geoduck. Straight up looked like I had a dildo in my hand for the podium pictures.

Mrs. Mzungu won a 25lb bag of Vidalia onions at a race - about an hour after we'd purchased a bag of Vidalia onions. She's won some really random stuff - a couple of blankets, an electric guitar (which I love), a gift certificate to a billiard supply store, and other random crap that's lying around our house now, but the onions were a little weird - esp. 25 pounds of them.

i ran a 5k on new years eve a few years back. running shoulder to shoulder with another guy we discussed the prize purse for the top two runners. first prize was a nike shower kit, second was a pair of champion socks. i wanted the socks, but so did he. we got to the finish line about three minutes ahead of third place and stood there for the longest time saying "after you", "no, after you", "no, you", "no, no, after you, i insist".

anyway, we say the third place runner so i took the high road and won so he could have the socks.

I received a free haircut at a local salon. Went to redeem it, they didn't accept it in the end, so I won the privilege of paying for a terrible haircut.

a pink winter hat that said 'Pikes Peak' on it. the race was in nashville...

won a race for a local high school charity of "teens for safe sex." I got a trophy and a condom.

My freshman year of high school I was running some random road race and outkicked some guy by a half step to place 3rd overall for the first time in my life. I was pumped until I saw the 3x5 piece of clear plastic they handed me that had "3rd place" written on it in magic marker. Half of it wiped off before I got to the car. Meanwhile, my dad won his age group and received a huge trophy for it. Not cool.

A quart of eggnog for winning an eggnog mile.

I got a very cheap pen once. Never worked and blotted ink the first time I tried to write with it.

I cant decide between these 2:

1. a hollowed out small bowel, like a pipe bowel but with no stem

2. a cow bell with a little plaque slapped on the side of it

Also, I got a pair of knee pads in a goody bag.

In a small town I won a race and they gave me tickets for a 100$ that I could supposedly spend in any local store. After trying out 5-6 different stores, spending over an hour asking around and wasting my fuel.. I even went back to the race area just to find out everyone that had organized the race had already left. I gave up and threw them away.

Would of been better off finishing 2nd... he actually wasn't that far behind.

A race for the cure for breastcancer awareness advertised with 'winner gets a free roundtrip within the US'.

Turned out it was only for the overall winner, not male and female winner. Pretty ironic as it was a race for breastcancer funding and that as a female you had to run 15.10 to win the overall race.

Hmm...for me, either:

1. A bright yellow sweatshirt advertising a local casino, or:

2. I finished 2nd in a local Half Marathon by 2 seconds...the winner got a nice hand carved mantle clock. Second place got nothing, except my "age division winner" medal, which was exactly like everyone elses medal except it said "age division winner" on the back.