I was talking to a friend recently about funny workouts we've done. You know, the kind you do once and never again.
We did this workout once that backfired a little. It was WAY harder than I thought it would be. It was about 10F out and windy. We went to an area of high sand dunes. The wind had cleared the snow off a strip of the dunes all the way up. So we ran up the dunes with a sled in hand and jumped on the sled to go down. What I didn't realize was how hard it would be to catch your breath on the sled and just how quickly it took to get to the bottom. None of us thought to rest between intervals because we had it stuck in our mind that we brought the sleds to reduce the rest. A lot of us were gong down face first on our chests which didn't help the breathing situation. I think we made it about 20 minutes, maybe not even that long
The other one was a workout I did with a friend. We were training for a mountain race and decided to run up a 1,200 vertical climb mountain five times to simulate the race we were training for. It was 20 something minutes up and 20 something minutes down. B/c of the down hills we were not used to neither one of us idiots could walk for the next three days after the three hours and twenty minutes of hill repeats.
Dumbest workouts you've done
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Summer before senior year of high school I ran 12 miles to another town. Stopped and ate an ice cream cone before running home. Injured a few days later and had to take a couple weeks off.
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The summer before senior year of high school, I fell behind on my mileage one week. At the time I was trying to do 55-60 mpw consistently, with a weekly long run of 13.
Well, that week I fell behind on my mileage, and I concluded that I would need to do 20 miles on the Saturday to catch up. So, I woke up for a 6amer running 7 miles, getting quite dehydrated but recovered well with a lot of water and food during the day. Then I did 13 that evening. Couldn't run again for five days --- my achilles was far from pleased with that one. -
Freshman year in high school....only had a PR of 5:48 in the mile at the time....probably running 30 ish miles per week.
6 x 660(y),550
Each one was as hard as you could go, equal distance walk recovery. Everybody on the team had to do it, from the top guy (who was a physiologically very mature senior, 5 o'clock shadow, who was running 4:16), to the slowest girl. Because of the very long rest periods (which we totally extended), warm up, stretching, all that stuff, we were out at the track until close to 7:00 pm (practice started right after school). Maybe 1/3 of the team finished. I finished. Then ended up getting dreadfully sick for the next 4 days. -
Bar-none my stupidest training day ever:
Saturday, AM: messed up my hamstring the day before in a fartlek and could barely walk, I tried running but couldn't make it 1 block because there was too much pain. So I rode the trainer for 30 minutes.
PM: I decided I still wanted to get my long run in so I went to give it another shot. The longest I had ever run at that time was 12 miles in 90 minutes. I still could barely walk and had a nasty limp, but went ahead and ran 15 miles in 130 minutes (the hamstring injury really slowed me down). That was the most pain and fatigue I have ever felt outside of a race in my entire life. After that, I couldn't run for 2 weeks. -
I jogged a marathon on Belle Isle, Detroit with a buddy, drank 3 beers, then played 2 hours of fullcourt basketball in the afternoon. Later I puked for 12 hours.
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Basically ran race pace for all workouts for a couple of months. Had nothing at races, times did not improve, and I burned out pretty quickly. Needed about two to three months of slow running to recover.
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3 sets of 20x400 in 60 seconds with 100m jog recovery - barefoot on grass.
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In college to improve my speed I ran a set of 10 X 60 yard "Russian" downhill sprints all out.
Could barely walk the next morning, couldn't run right for a while...mIssed the next meet of the (very short) outdoor season.
Idiot.
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Inspired by the Mike Rossi Nike+ App "run" of 5 Miles at 5K race pace, I tried that, needless to say it didn't go well.
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Russian downhills kill.
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Not myself but a friend terribly out of shape on a Christmas day long run in an European capital many years ago. Fairly cold day, this guys shows up in split shorts. Hmmm... As we get to the center of town, fairly deserted at that early time apart from few tourists, we end up on a straight, wide avenue between two main squares - needless to say we are suddenly at mile pace in the middle of the road.
Long story short, this poor guy ends stopping and has take a bus back home, where - legend goes - he is approached by another man who slips a hand in his shorts. True story, no kidding. We still make fun of him after all these years... -
And then what happened?
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i was trying to build a base for senior year XC last year in hopes that id be running in the top 5 for varsity. while id been feeling sick for about 2 weeks i didnt think it was that bad so i showed up for practice to get in that long. long story short i had full blown pneumonia and so 2.5 miles into the run i turned back because i was blacking out on the run and could barely stand up. I was bedridden sick for a month after....
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Hill repeats in a parking garage
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running boom boom wrote:
Summer before senior year of high school I ran 12 miles to another town. Stopped and ate an ice cream cone before running home. Injured a few days later and had to take a couple weeks off.
This is adorable. Might have to try this. Salt and Straw in Portland is conveniently located 12ish miles from where I live. -
I was visiting the twin cities. I wanted to run about 17 or 18 miles and decided to go straight out with the intention to turn around and run straight back.
Except I got very very lost on the way back. I continued to run until I found where I needed to be. Total time of the run was over 4 hours, mileage very likely in the thirties. I was in tremendous shape but of course slowing down after the 2 hour mark. I had no source of energy besides water and no money on me. I am not indestructible but luckily quite durable and was capable of doing this. But the fact is, I could've stopped and done something less risky. -
Wow some letsrun posters are pretty stupid about their training! Well come to think of it I guess I had a similar problem in college. I was a top 20 performer in Xc my fresh year. Got hurt right before soph year but was still top 50. After that had a string of injuries where I would come back and go right to 100 miles a week as I thought I needed to play catch up and had a make or break attitude. My senior year due to a 117 mile week during the summer I was injured and was driving to nationals to watch. Since I wanted to get my 100 miles in and still go on the trip where we would drive for days straight I was running 10 and 10 doubles. Obviously I got hurt again and was out for quite a while. Thankfully I am back running strong these days avg 90-100 mile weeks. Sleeping more and eating better has helped tremendously. Just wish I took better care of myself in college and ran consistent 80 mile weeks instead of forcing more miles.
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The first workout I ever did was the dumbest. I had never ran on a track before and I drove there, got out of the car and tried to run a fast lap. Needless to say I didn't run for a very long time after that. I did however look into the proper way to train and ended up going back there for successful workouts.
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First year of college I was trying to walk on to the track team, had to run the 800 in an intrasquad meet, so in the early afternoon I ran the race all out and ran terrible. I was pissed so I went out and ran 15 miles 3 hours later (furthest I have ever ran before that was 13). Got that nagging runner's knee a few days later.
