The STRANGEST thing you've seen on a run?

Saw a crossfitter/meathead get on the treadmill next to me and run for 9 minutes. Never seen one run for more than 3 minutes before that.

Saw Billy Joe and Bobby Sue on a run a couple years ago down south. They really are still running. I would love to know how many miles they have accumulated over the last 39 years.

Plenty of bears.
A few rattlesnakes.
More water mocassins than I can count.
Some people getting it on.
Lot of feral cats.
Logging roads.
An old, rusted up 1920s car.
Fire trails, sometimes runable, sometimes overgrown.
Fire towers.
Women wearing tights when its 80 degrees outside on their jogs.

on a trail I startled a guy out hunting or target shooting with an air pistol, he swerved and pointed it at me briefly.

Don't point your air pistol at someone just because he is charging toward you on a remote trail in the woods! Unless it is a bear.

A couple having sex in the bush on the trails......

I got attacked by a Coyote on another early morning run and had to have rabies shots.
I tried to grab him by the fur but it was in February in Indiana and the Coyote fur was so thick, I couldn't get a good hold
The scars from the teeth marks are still in my shin.

don't know if that counts or not.

In no particular order:

-A drug deal
-A drug addict asking me for weed or heroin (can't remember)
-A super stoned homeless guy thinking I had a gun and was about to shoot him
-A homeless guy that said he was gonna kill me
-A gangster asking me to come closer
-A homeless guy cussing me out
-2 homeless people along the riverpath, one had a gun in his pocket and put his hand on it as I ran by, the other guy was using a machete and flint to light a blunt
-A police stake out of a gangster that had a gun
-At 5am it was pitch black and a dude that looked like he had a gun pointed it at me then ran after me but turns out he was just high and playing cops and robbers with his imaginary friend

End of a long run. Cooling down pace. In Eugene, hot summer sunset-twilight, jogging down one of those gravel alleys from town to campus. Look to my right, huge bedroom window with curtains open --

And a good looking couple copulating completely naked, no blankets on the bed, just a white covered bed and two humans doing what comes natural. For those who are interested: Cowgirl.

Had to laugh.

Other than that, nothing gross. Cool things like running high in the mountains on trails and seeing deer grazing ten feet from me, and them not being threatened, just chillin'.

Oh, and on the exact same turn on a road in the mountains, at different times.

1. Two $20. bills, and a stream of condoms all over the place, must have been 30 condoms.

2. Another time, a paper bag with two "porno" novels. I took them to the bus stop the next day and handed them around. One gal, a young total "10," asked to borrow them. I never got them back. She became sex crazed, and by age 18 had 3 kids with a guy in our high school.

Talk about changing lives.

I can just see her now, explaining to her kids how she met their father, "well we were in high school, and I read these pornographic novels just as puberty was striking and I got really horny, and notched your dad...etc."

A serial killer. Last summer I ran past a guy on a forest trail wearing a t shirt jeans, and muddy boots. A couple of days later, the guys picture is on the 10 pm news, he is wanted for the rape and murder of two women. I told the police what I saw, don't know if they found him though.

I came around the corner and ran into a bear.

I was running at 1 AM and there was an entire family outside. Mom gardening. Dad watering the grass. Kids playing in the driveway.

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Heve Starvey wrote:

I'm sure there's probably a 5 year old thread on this somewhere but we might as well start a new one. I don't have anything great to start off but I did nearly run into a skunk on an early morning when my headlamp batteries were running low. What kind of BIZZARE things have you seen while running, training, racing?

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When I was living in Atlanta (Decatur) on cold Sunday night in January, two dudes running with a TV

Team was running a fartlek on a greenway path and it goes by a golf course at one point. As we approach the golf course there's a woman squatting with pants down around here ankles just pissing away. She didn't notice us until we were about 20 meters from her and just pulled her pants up and ran away as quick as possible. She actually pissed on the paved trail too as opposed to peeing in the trees around the trail, she left a puddle.

I live by the ocean. One early and dark morning on a beach run I saw someone panicking and screaming to call 911. I didn't have a phone on me so I ran to a payphone near the lifeguard station. Dude's friend tried to go for a drunken seim and was struggling. He managed to make it out anyway.

Also, a giant dead sea turtle washed ashore.

I nominate Geore Atlas/occult scene as weirdest do far. Also amazed by the dead body and multiple mountain lion sightings. For me:

Wildlife: wolves several times, lynx, bobcat, black bears, caribou, moose, elk, musk ox (captive), mule deer, white-tail deer, ermine, mt goat, Dall sheep, barred and short-eared owl, river otters, northern black racer (snake), several kinds of turtles.

Kathmandu: trying to escape city for open running, running embarrassed through thick crowds at the Monkey Temple. Suddenly crowds parted and I almost had to jump over an ox or something being slaughtered.

Fairbanks AK: nothing in particular. But running decent mileage when it's -40 or -50 is like running on the moon.

(Undisclosed): I run on local nudist trails and occasionally bump into people. It's surreal, I always try to be casual and ask how it's going.

Adding these from Lancaster County PA: an Amish meth lab in the woods, also once spooked some horses and flipped an Amish buggy running at dusk, felt bad about that one.

Wow. Saw the exact same thing running a trail on Orcas Island in the San Juan's. Late 1980's.

Fall 2010. I was exploring some old logging roads (running), and came to a corn field with a line of trees on the other side. It looked like the trail continued around the corn field and picked up in the aforementioned line of trees, so I ran around the field and stopped at the trees.

I couldn't find where the trail was, so I just stood there looking around and getting a breather.

All of a sudden I notice a guy not 20 feet away dressed in full camo with a cross bow leaning against the tree.

Needless to say I was quite surprised and tried to explain what I was doing, and he just said "yea I saw you come from across the field" and just sat there staring at me. It was very creepy so I took the hell off.

A herd of cows (maybe 20 or 30) were blocking our way (2 teammates and myself) along the dirt path we were running on in the fields behind the Virginia Tech campus. We caught their attention, but instead of them moving off the path, they started running towards us. We got chased into this little farming barn, and the cows surrounded 3 sides of it. We jumped out of a window on the only side they were not blocking and made a dash for the nearest fence to get away. Scary as hell.