What is the worst thing that ever happened to you on a run?

I did a tiny wee because I couldn't hold it in any longer.

I've had plenty of scrapes, including one that required a trip to the ER, but the worst thing to ever happen was shortly after running. A couple of crazy a-holes decided to blow up the finish line.

Spontaneous orgasm.

Sharted

txRUNNERgirl wrote:

I've had plenty of scrapes, including one that required a trip to the ER, but the worst thing to ever happen was shortly after running. A couple of crazy a-holes decided to blow up the finish line.

You realize this reads a lot like a joke, right?

A few days after a 20-mile race, I was jogging around our indoor track. Midway, I switched directions--to avoid injury (the irony is just sickening)--and in doing so, I popped something in my foot.

Forty-plus years later, I still can't run across the street.

I'd say that was the worst.

The worst for me was as an observer. I was warming up, ready to run some 400 meter reps around the local high school track after work. It was quite dark out there, with no moon. Two guys running intervals around the track in opposite directions collided face first and made a loud thud a few feet away! One was knocked unconscious. The other was lying on the ground, bleeding profusely from the nose. An ambulance was called. I decided to abandon my workout and never do speed work in the dark:)

bolder1 wrote:

The worst for me was as an observer. I was warming up, ready to run some 400 meter reps around the local high school track after work. It was quite dark out there, with no moon. Two guys running intervals around the track in opposite directions collided face first and made a loud thud a few feet away! One was knocked unconscious. The other was lying on the ground, bleeding profusely from the nose. An ambulance was called. I decided to abandon my workout and never do speed work in the dark:)

Damn, that's gnarly. But what two dolts would run in opposite directions around a track in the dark?

Made a bad decision to run a 15K when recovery from stomach flu. Had to pull of the course and drop trou in someone's front yard. So embarrassed I slinked off the course and got lost trying to find my way back to the car. Desecrated a few more city blocks and made it to my car an hour and a half later with soiled shorts, no dignity, and a DNF.

They didn't know each other. It was a random meeting. One was running reps in the normal counter-clockwise direction and the second guy apparently jogged to the track and started his first interval in a clockwise direction without knowing that the other guy was out there in the dark.

Are you people serious?

txRUNNERgirl wrote:

I've had plenty of scrapes, including one that required a trip to the ER, but the worst thing to ever happen was shortly after running. A couple of crazy a-holes decided to blow up the finish line.

So YOU were a victim of the Boston bombing? Physically injured? Good god, always about trg, worse than Flagpole.

I hurt my peroneal tendon on a long trail run which led to Achilles tendinitis. I've been fighting that for a few months now. Tonight I ran 4 good miles.

slipped ,fell onto another

runners penis but kind of liked it .

It was a true story. The second worst running incident that I've observed was several years when a high school sprinter fly off the curve of a banked indoor track after being bumped during a crowded relay race, resulting in serious injuries. Most indoor tracks now have outside rails.-------------------------------------------------

Jim Fixx wrote:

Are you people serious?

bolder1 wrote:

The worst for me was as an observer. I was warming up, ready to run some 400 meter reps around the local high school track after work. It was quite dark out there, with no moon. Two guys running intervals around the track in opposite directions collided face first and made a loud thud a few feet away! One was knocked unconscious. The other was lying on the ground, bleeding profusely from the nose. An ambulance was called. I decided to abandon my workout and never do speed work in the dark:)

Damn, that's gnarly. But what two dolts would run in opposite directions around a track in the dark?

bolder1

They didn't know each other. It was a random meeting. One was running reps in the normal counter-clockwise direction and the second guy apparently jogged to the track and started his first interval in a clockwise direction without knowing that the other guy was out there in the dark.

Are you from Columbia, MO?

I got poison ivy on >50% of my body when I peed in the woods. Turns out I'm very allergic to poison ivy. Have you ever gotten a boehner while you've got poison ivy on your junk? It's the f*cking worst.

Over the course of 30+ years of running:

* Was hit by a car (my fault). Only minor injuries, but I was really shaken-up.

* Was shot in the knee by a couple of idiots with a nail-gun as they drove past me. Only a small nail, but rather painful.

* Had to take a dump in my shorts - that's happened a couple of times.

* Hit a speed bump in the road in the last 10 metres of the last rep of a session - when I was already knackered. The resulting calf strain prevented serious training for a couple of years, and I can still feel it now some 16 years later.

* Did a rep session without realising I had a tooth abscess. Well, I didn't realise it at the start - I sure as hell realised by the end - that was some pain from the blood pressure effect on the abscess.

* Was hit hard on the shoulder by a golf ball as I ran across Wimbledon golf course. The ball missed my face by a couple of centimetres.

* Started seeing in black and white during a intense hill session - very peculiar sensation. I wimped-put and stopped immediately.

I'm running last weekend when I find out Obamacare got my insurance cancelled, then I got hit by a car. The accident led to my brain being largely nonfunctional, but the bright side is that watching MSNBC is more enjoyable now.