Murphy's Law of Running

Going for a run, getting tired, and stopping short of your planned distance.

You always run the train tracks as an alternate route to get back to your house. In five years you have never seen a train in the afternoon when you run. The day you wear headphones to listen to your ipod a train comes...

dpmrunner wrote:

You have deliberated about whether to sign up for a certain marathon. Finally, seeing that training seems to be going well, you sign up. You then get injured.

I've been training hard for a January half marathon since August. On December 24th, I came down with a sinus infection. The very next day, I paid the $50 registration for the race. I took the George Costanza approach here, doing the exact opposite of what makes sense, hoping that this would cure my sinus infection.

Just when you're about to go set a marathon world record, fresh off big victories in Beijing, London, and Chicago, you totally get framed for attempted murder of your wife and a watchman.

That one gets me every damn time. I guess it's just Murphy's Law!

fffffffffffffffffffffffffffart wrote:

Farting whilst running with a girl! THE WORST!

Or just running with a girl...

The Party's Crashing Us wrote:

Just when you're about to go set a marathon world record, fresh off big victories in Beijing, London, and Chicago, you totally get framed for attempted murder of your wife and a watchman.

The threads have been crossed and the Let's Run universe will never again be the same.

P.S. You beat me to it.

You run for miles. And don't see a souln untill you have to fart and their are people every 10 feet

You do three weeks of 100+ mpw, and you get really tired near the end of the 3rd week.

When you are running in the winter and the car coming towards you being driven by the elderly doesn't see you. Then you must dive onto a snowbank.

When you're making yourself a sandwich, and then you remember that you still have to run!!! So you put the sandwich into the refrigerator and eat it later.

MURPHY STRIKES AGAIN

You get a new pair of running shoes and go for a run. You get back and your legs hurt!!

When you go out for a 10-miler, and you have the best run of your life!! But then it turned out you were just daydreamin!!!!!!

As a senior, after years of hard work, you are ready to crush the competition when a natually talented freshman who doesn't even like to run joins the team and makes your new PRs look pathetic.

You'll hugely PR in some little no-name race and bomb the most important ones.

You finally ask out the hot girl who works at the gym and she gives you her number. You call her and she says, "I can't date gym members. Want to be friends?"

You PR by over a minute in a 10K race that loses its certification because it is 8 meters short.

No matter how fast you run, the stupid football player will always get the cheerleader.

100 posts, keep it going

You run a 5K in a time slightly slower than you usually run then find out that the turn around was 150 meters too far down the road.

That happened to me. I would have PR's by a ton!