Have you ever inhaled a foreign object while running?

I once had a bee fly intomy mouth ona run and sting my tongue. I was running on my lunch hour and kept wanting to doze off all afternoon, well, even more than I usually do.

I swallow bugs all the time and have accidently run through spider webs while training in the forest early in the morning and swallowed a few spiders.

That bug might be dead, but his bacteria and diseased body will be floating through your intestines for at least another few hours. Enjoy

Your upset stomach was probably more mental than physical. I would stay near a phone with the 9 and 1 already punched in though.

I don't think you crapped it out that fast. It takes time for things to go from your stomach, through the 27 feet of small intestine, then through the yard of colon you got working for you.

Anyway, I swallowed some gnats today. Yum. Protein and nitrogen. ye yea

My brother dropped out of his first HS cross country race when he happened to enhale a small piece of bark that fell out of tree and somehow found it's way into his throat. He actually started to choke on it before he was able to cough it up. The whole team called him "Ule Gibbons" after that, and he quit running about 2 weeks later to become the team manager.

Some girl swallowed a rock last year at some college XC meet, and a coach had to give her the Heimlich mid-race. She was white as a ghost and choking. He saved her life. It was in the Midwest or South.

Deena Drossin swallowed a bee at the 1999 IAAF XC meet, might have been the 2000 IAAF XC meet, and it stung her in the back of the throat. She finished 12th.

Me--I've inhaled many bugs, a housefly was the worst thing though. It went into the lungs too, not the stomach, so I was hacking up gross housefly leavings for hours.

Only a few weeks before a race, and purely by accident.

I swallowed a horsefly, it went down my throat, or at least partly down. I didn't feel it for like 10 minutes, then after a while started feeling something in my throat. After about 10 more minutes I finally coughed it up...alive after 20 min.

A toxic wind from the south

geez...who hasn't swallowed dozens of bugs while running? if this doesn't happen to you once a week in the summer, you are not running enough.

That's why I run with a medical mask and wraparound goggles.

I did the same thing! My teammate had to pull the stinger out of my tongue, and then I had to finish the run with my tongue getting bigger and bigger. After I finished running, it swelled up so big that I couldn't talk. They had to give me some kind of steroid so that I wouldn't suffocate. I kept on sucking on ice and trying everything that made sense. The only thing that worked was when I finally gave up the ice and had a cup of chamomile tea. The swelling went down right away.My coach thought it was funny.

HRE wrote:

I once had a bee fly intomy mouth ona run and sting my tongue. I was running on my lunch hour and kept wanting to doze off all afternoon, well, even more than I usually do.

I knew an old lady who swallowed a fly. Don't know why she swallowed a fly. I guess she'll die.

stalin colinet wrote:

geez...who hasn't swallowed dozens of bugs while running? if this doesn't happen to you once a week in the summer, you are not running enough.

I've swallowed the little critters many times, but i suppose my mouth isn't usually open wide enough to let in the big guys.

As an aside, a few years back I was in a bar playing quarters with some friends when one quarter somehow banked off the top of the glass (which gave me the win) and I immediately started laughing. Right at the moment I blurted out my laugh, the banked quarter went in my mouth and down my throat causing me to upchuck a considerable amount of beer. No one in the joint knew what happened but when they caught wind of it I became an imfamous legend of sorts.

I witnessed a guy who, after playing quarters, picked up his beer and chugged it not knowing that a quarter was lying on the bottom of the glass. apparently he didnt even feel it going down (he was pretty drunk).

in the 2000 pittsburgh marathon, mile 10 at a water station, someone handed me some vasaline, which i mistook for power gel. ate about a tablespoon. vasaline coated stomach + 90 degree heat = extremely positive splits.

I witnessed a guy who, after playing quarters, picked up his beer and chugged it not knowing that a quarter was lying on the bottom of the glass. apparently he didnt even feel it going down (he was pretty drunk).[/quote]

The same thing happened to a friend while playing quarters. He downed the whole beer with the quarter and did not even know. The guy who shot the quarter went to get the glass back to go again and discovered the quarter was gone. Once we discovered the quarter was gone someone had the bright idea that the first person to swallow a dollar was the All Time Champion of the World. Everyone started emptying their pockets and downing dimes, nickels, etc. I got to like 75 cents when someone took a dollar bill, folded it up and cranked it down. Game over. Boy were we loaded. It's amazing nobody died.

Does sweat flying off a Kenyan count as a "foreign object"? heheh

I inhaled a horsefly this summer....not enjoyable. I think I was coughing violently for about 20 minutes. The thing was big.