Scariest thing during a run

Once I was doing an easy training run in a park near my house. Just moving along, enjoying the warm weather, when a huge limb fell off a tree not 20meters ahead of me. I stopped in my tracks, this thing was seriously like a few hundred pounds and landed right on the path. Scared the hell out of me.

Scariest thing during a run was when a fat chick jogger past me.

http://www.geocities.com/irhee/oprah.html

How about getting hit by a pick-up truck?...scarey enough for you?

Being chased by a very big and seriously mentally ill young man who thought that I had insulted his mother. Months ago, someone here wrote about being tackled by a guy who, it turned out, was John Wayne Gacy. If that story was true (it was certainly convincing), that takes the cake.

Probably the time I was midway through a 9 miler and was murdered. Freaked me the hell out.

US Miler wrote:

Probably the time I was midway through a 9 miler and was murdered. Freaked me the hell out.

As well it should. But if you were murdered "midway through a 9 miler," wouldn't it be more accurate to say that you were murdered at the end of a four-and-one-half miler?

doh nuts or wutever black women nicknames,

please stop the oprah thingy.

In 1980, I was finishing a 18 or 20 mile run at like 10 p.m. With 1/2 mile to go, in the dead of night on this little side street, this little mongrel comes out of the darkness barking at my feet. Didn't bite me, but EVERY muscle in my body immediately cramped up. Kicked the pooch, and walked in the last three blocks to my house.

The time I saw Sevatonic's mother.

i was in the woods running once when two deers ran out in front of me - i nearly had a heart attack

oldguy, hilarious comment about that 4.5-miler! And here's the link to that Gacy story thread. I agree, if true, this takes the cake no contest.

thanks for your compliment. who doesnt want to be oprah's son...a millionaire.

I once saw a HUGE camel toe.

running this past week with my team and having 2 of the guys on my team get sucker punched from their blind side. Then their being a group of 10 guys waiting for someone to fight back they can jump the kid when all i wanted to do was freaking run.

one time one of my teammates and I were running a 10 mile distance run and we had to cross come train tracks. Well neither of us weren paying attention because we had just passed by some hot girls and so we went to cross the tracks without looking either way to see if a train was coming. My friend got onto the tracks and I had just placed my foot onto the track when the loudest horn i have ever heard went off. A train was bearing down on us, when the horn went off I'd say ti was about 20 feet from us. My friend froze completely for a half a second and I did too, but after that we hauled ass and jumped off the track as fast as we could. as soon as i got off the track the train went speeding by. it was one the scariest moment i have had running.

But if you were murdered "midway through a 9 miler," wouldn't it be more accurate to say that you were murdered at the end of a four-and-one-half miler?[/quote]

Hey, I finished the damned run. I'm no pussy. But as I said, the whole scene freaked me the hell out. One doesn't expect to be slain during a run.