Worst race performance relative to expectations? Ever completely bombed?
Worst race performance relative to expectations? Ever completely bombed?
once I gave blood and tried to race a 5k two weeks later - I was in around 17:40 shape before, and could summon only a 19:42, feeling like death.
Being passed by women and not being able to do anything about it...priceless.
I ran 5 minutes slower than my 10k PR at conference track my senior year. Was seeded 3rd going in, got second to last. I was injured and thought I could gut out some points but the pain was too much and I hobbled around the track. I have never dropped out of a race and I sure as hell wasn't going to start my last race in college.
Non injury, probably high school regional championship XC race my junior year. My teammate and I had been doing very well the whole year, up towards the top of every race and seperated by no more than a few seconds. Well he got second and I got 20th or something like that, about a minute back. I didn't advance to state and he did. Still have no idea what happened.
I raced a marathon with mono. I got 3rd place in this event the previous year, but dropped out at mile 7 in roughly 20th and already 3-4 minutes off pace. Pretty sure this trumps anything. :P
Besides that, I once went out in a road 10k 1 second off my road 5k PR, thinking it was a little more soft than it was. It got kinda rough by the end. :)
It was in high school, the state indoor championships. I was in about 9:20 shape and had a legit shot to win. I ran 10:40 and got lapped. One of the worst experiences of my life.
A Skeptic wrote:
It was in high school, the state indoor championships. I was in about 9:20 shape and had a legit shot to win. I ran 10:40 and got lapped. One of the worst experiences of my life.
What happened? Go out too hard? Just a bad day?
I tried to run FL regionals after not running for a month after states. I may have broken 19 min at FL, while being in ~16 flat shape at states.
haha YOZA wrote:
A Skeptic wrote:It was in high school, the state indoor championships. I was in about 9:20 shape and had a legit shot to win. I ran 10:40 and got lapped. One of the worst experiences of my life.
What happened? Go out too hard? Just a bad day?
It was just a bad day. I should have dropped out, but at the time I was philosophically opposed to dropping out. After that I understood why people drop out sometimes.
I ran a marathon once trying to pass a kidney stone. I ran from portajohn to portajohn. It took me about an extra hour but I managed to finish. I passed the stone the next day.
I finished dead last in my first college indoor track meet as a freshman. It was a 5,000. I hadn't raced in awhile, went out way too hard, stupidly led the first couple laps. Got lapped by everyone in the field (well maybe not everyone), finished in 17:58. Very humbling.
I quit in the middle of a 10K heat at the 1996 Olympics.
I recently fell in the first turn of a race. The fall was pretty rough in itself, but the real bummer was that my manager decided to euthanize me shortly after the incident.
In highschool I once ran an 800 significantly slower than my mile race pace. My coach was pissed as hell, he told me I should have just run the mile. But it was his damn fault for not knowing how to coach, I did much better in college. Still sucked at the 800, but I was always better prepared.