Mine isn't that bad, I've only been threatened to be arrested for trespassing several times.
I know a few people who got hit by cars but that's the worst
Mine isn't that bad, I've only been threatened to be arrested for trespassing several times.
I know a few people who got hit by cars but that's the worst
Myself and another teammate were actually arrested for running in a part of a public park under construction when I was 15. Apparently, they'd been having problems with kids riding dirt bikes and ATVs in that part of the park, which is against the law to do in my state in a public park, but I was wearing short running shorts and no shirt and clearly was nowhere near a dirtbike or ATV. There were no signs or anything indicating that I was not allowed to run there, but he arrested us for criminal trespass. It was really ridiculous. My parents made a formal complaint and apparently this paticular officer had had problems in the past and there were several complaints against him for various things. This was the last straw and he was transferred out to a different county (A lot of the officers wanted to stay in the part of the county where I lived because it was a very cushy, well-to-do area.
Twisted my ankle.
There was this girl I used to run with. She wasn't much to look at but her jugs were nice. This sunny afternoon one summer we were jogging down by the river and heard a moan in the bushes. Not like an in-pain moan, more like somebody getting head moan. We looked at each other and walked toward the noise. Closing in on a thicket from which the noise was emanating, a rock came shooting out and went flying by our heads, followed by an explosion of sparrows that nearly hit me full on in the face. As I ducked I lost my balance and toppled over. Next thing I know I'm on my back staring into the blue sky naked as my name day. I got up, brushed myself off, and decided it was time to shave my beard.
Sprained my ankle something terrible on a warmup run the day before my goal race. Months of training down the drain.
Seeing some naked guy pulling sparrows out of his a55 while his girlfriend stood nearby laughing. It was horrifying.
El Jefe wrote:
Mine isn't that bad, I've only been threatened to be arrested for trespassing several times.
I know a few people who got hit by cars but that's the worst
Dog bite. Idiot dog owners with off leash dogs in public parks.
Best was cute chick from my high school stopping me for a new years kiss while I was on a run!
Face plant on a trail. Very sore, very scraped up and 3 miles from the car.
Friend did get him by a car but we were on a bike ride not a run. It was scary.
Took a dump in my shorts...didn't make it to the safety of a wooded area in time.
1. Hit by a car when leading a cross country race that had to cross a road at 2 miles. The driver went around barriers and ignored volunteers yelling for him to stop. I flew through the air and landed in front of the college health center. No fractures, just soft tissue injuries. Missed only a week.
2. Tripped and broke my collar bone one block from home, one week before a race I had been aiming at for months, when I was in great shape. No running for four weeks.
A neighborhood dog came out of nowhere and chomped down upon my knee. Damn thing came after me like I was made of bacon.
Old Ultra Guy wrote:
1. Hit by a car when leading a cross country race that had to cross a road at 2 miles. The driver went around barriers and ignored volunteers yelling for him to stop. I flew through the air and landed in front of the college health center. No fractures, just soft tissue injuries. Missed only a week.
How did this play afterwards?
Running on the beach, stepped on a rotten fish, liquified fish guts squirted out and sprayed on my legs. The stink didn't wash off so easily.
Could have been the worst.
Running way out in the middle of nowhere - a Doberman pincher came out of the woods and immediately came running after me. The only car that I saw during the run came along at the same time. The car pulled up beside me, the door opened and I jumped in. The couple in the car said that they had had trouble with abandoned dogs in the area when they were out running.
Munich, Germany. Early 90s. I was visiting my parents for Christmas (dad was in the US Army). A few nights before Christmas, around 7PM, my folks went to a party. I told them I was going for a run.
Ran to the nearby forest, which I wasn't familiar with. Of course I got lost, it got dark, then started snowing. I had no idea where I was. After 2+ hours of running, I ended up in an office park with one entrance. A big German security guard came out of nowhere, blocking the exit and started hitting the cement with a metal pole. Huge shower of sparks. I thought he was going to kill me. I ran around the dimly lit park like a running back until I was able to escape.
A while later, I ended up at an S-Bahn (train) station. I had no money but fortunately I remembered the name of my stop. After about 5 minutes on the train, a conductor came through asking for tickets. He came to me, muttered something in German. I didn't have a ticket and didn't speak German. He got on his radio and at the next stop the Polizei were waiting for me. They, and their huge German Shepherd, escorted me off and took me to a corner of the station. I was wet, cold, lost, scared. I had no way of contacting my family. Finally a cool cop who spoke English showed up and told me how to get home.
I finally made it to my house around midnight, where there were about 4 military police cars waiting and preparing to mount a search. Fun night.
flagjr wrote:
Took a dump in my shorts...didn't make it to the safety of a wooded area in time.
I had the same thing happen to me. I ate tons of hot wings at this place called Quaker Steak and Lube. Anybody else have a similar encounter after eating there?
Broke my foot once. Felt something go pop after twisting it when I stepped of a curb. This was just one minute into what was a 70 minute run. Kept running but felt it the next day.
Broke my leg in the middle of a marathon. That was a very bad day, certainly the most painful ever.
A dog sunk its teeth into me while I was at an intersection waiting for the light to change. The owner gave a false name and address, making the incident worse.
Got hit in the head from a soda can thrown from a car full of rednecks. Fortunately I have a hard head and the can was mostly empty so it didn't hurt too much.
Threatened with arrest and had my picture taken by a security guard on a trail that I had run on for decades. Hadn't been out there for a while and Homeland Security decided to shut the area down following 9/11.
Had a crazy homeless guy pull out a knife and threaten me from about 15 ft away as I was crossing an intersection. I got away real quick.
My ball's got so chaffed on a 16 mile run in the dead of winter in Boston that I got permanent scar from how raw i made them
It was around 7:00 p.m. and I wanted to run before dark, so I decided on a 7-miler in the hills behind my high school.
Around halfway through, night started to fall and I accidently took a wrong turn. Then I couldn't figure out how to get back so I ran in the general direction of traffic which I heard on the main road.
Now the sun had gone down and I passed a neighborhood which I had never seen before on my way downhill. Suddenly two big black dogs started barking and chasing me. I screamed and jumped as high as I could to catch the branch of a nearby tree and climbed as high as I could.
Waited for about 15 minutes before the dogs left. Then I jumped down and just SPRINTED for the road and didn't stop until I was like 2 miles away.
Hit by a car.
I found a dead body. Although I'm sure it was much worse for the person whose body it used to be than it was for me, still a pretty awakening experience--I was 15 at the time and the body belonged to a neighbor who was a 19 year old young woman. No need to go further with details.