Dumbest workouts you've done

Spaghettimonster wrote:

Once wrote:

3 sets of 20x400 in 60 seconds with 100m jog recovery - barefoot on grass.

I pissed blood for a week.

Are you Jim Ryun?

You new here?

tips wrote:

Spaghettimonster wrote:

Are you Jim Ryun?

You new here?

No I made a poor attempt at a joke.

Spaghettimonster wrote:

Once wrote:

3 sets of 20x400 in 60 seconds with 100m jog recovery - barefoot on grass.

I pissed blood for a week.

Are you Jim Ryun?

Bruce?

In HS I was worried about making the 5:30 1600m cut, so didn't do winter track, but would do three workouts a week on my own, which were either 8x500m or 6x300m hills, or something like that.

I knew absolutely nothing about running -- I just thought the more workouts the better. I haven't truly thought about how stupid this was for a long time.

Did a 16 mile run on a track in Orlando in the summer, wanted about 7:30 mile pace. Started late afternoon, by one mile my shorts were completely soaked, two miles my shoes were soaked with sweat. At 10 miles I was at 9:00 pace; at 14 miles 10:00 pace, last two miles got dizzy and wobbly. Finished the run, staggered back to the car, drove home, bonked big time. After 8 or so hours I came around a bit, weighed myself and found I has lost 12 pounds (and I was drinking 12 oz every two miles on the track). Went from 135 pounds to 122 pounds. In the next few hours I drank 14 cans of Coke before I had to take a leak.

It was pretty dumb.

Tired guy wrote:

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.

What made it even stupider was the week before I was staying at a cabin near Pleasant HIll Lake close to Mohican State Park in Ohio. I decided to go for a run and at some point thought it would be cool to run around the lake as I thought it would be just as close as turning around. The problem was I didn't know the way so I just kept taking the first right at every intersection. Half the time the road would dead-end at the lake and I would have to backtrack some. I finally made it to the highway and was pretty happy I was still doing about 6:40 miles according to the highway mile markers. Got back to the cabin after about 22 miles instead of the 12-14 I wanted to run. That run gave me a little too much confidence that I could run as far as I wanted.

Ran a 2,20 group long run in the am. Later in the day played two masters ice hockey matches.

The day after my right hip was very painful. Couldn´t run for three weeks.

3,000m totally flat out 48 hours before the 1,500m track race.. (still managed to achieve the AQS for the Paralympic Games with 4'17" but I simply couldn't turn the booster on + a slightly sore hamstring..)

To be honest, I am still not sure whether it was a great or a freak idea actually...

On my first long run training for a marathon I went out for a 20-miler at 1PM in the australian summer. Got pretty close to a heat stroke and suffered severe dehydration; was in bed for a couple of days afterwards.

Middle distance guy wrote:

On my first long run training for a marathon I went out for a 20-miler at 1PM in the australian summer. Got pretty close to a heat stroke and suffered severe dehydration; was in bed for a couple of days afterwards.

Reminded me of the time several years ago I went out in 96F heat (Chicago) in the middle of the day for what I thought would be a simple 6 mile run. Ended up with severe heat exhaustion. Never felt so miserable.

Also, the summer before my junior year I thought I would hit the 1000 mile club, because in my head the more miles I ran, the better id be. Turns out I was burned out by the 1st race of the season and never recovered. Ended up with severe tendinitis in both knees that almost ended my running career. Pretty stupid.

I've got several.

High School XC: Run as fast as you can weaving in and out of trees 6-8 feet apart. The coach was a little kooky.

College, Winter Break: Ice storm knocked out power and left about an inch of ice on the roads. I put on cross spikes and did my coach-prescribed workout: 3 mile warmup, 6x0.5 mile hill with jog back rest, 3 mile cooldown. 12 miles in spikes kinda hurt after...no traffic though which was nice.

College: 12 mile run with full blown bronchitis (and trained for weeks with it...not smart). Stopped halfway in when we started picking up the tempo and coughed up a golf ball sized wad of phlegm. Almost puked as it came up.

College, Indoor Track: Plyometrics and sprints in 2.5 feet of snow on a soccer field. The top layer of snow was crust, so just enough to hold you up for a moment before breaking through, really fun....

College, Indoor Track: 3 mile warmup, 1 mile on the outdoor track (which was covered in an inch of snow). It was -22degF outside. I couldn't feel my feet or hands for a few hours after.

Many runs in the worst weather imaginable...not dumb, more crazy.

I also have done a 40x200m @ 32-34 on the track with 200m jog rest. That actually wasn't bad though...just long as hell.

In high school we tried to do the 30/40 workout from Oregon but our coach slowed down the times to like 34/50 or something similar (don't remember exacts) and we ended up doing close to 8 miles of total track workout (4 miles of 200s and 4 of recovery jogging) as we could not stop hitting the times. My calves were sore for a week as I was wearing my Victory track spikes for the duration.

Early in my running career, I tried to tempo,or just run hard on rooty single track trails. Ended up falling and busting my knees up a few times. I think I finally stopped that when my knee got so swollen I couldn't do more than jog for 2 weeks. Also, like some others in here, I've done some pretty stupid hard runs in the mid day summer sun. Never really got injured from that, just really really beat up and tired, like I'd had a much faster workout on a cooler day.

Not a workout exactly, but halfway through my freshman year of cross country, I thought I'd add in some extra cross training by playing Intramural ultimate Frisbee on my dorm's floor team. While playing D I jumped to block a pass, came down on someone's foot and turned my ankle pretty badly. Couldn't run for 2 weeks. I was able to make it back in time for the conference meet, but ran horribly due to the missed training time.

20 miles with 15@MP. on a freaking 300m track.

6 mile time trial, twice a week, every week.

Surprised only to see long runs here...

Swerving off topic as not not really 'Dumb' but lactic stuff for me was the most painful & dreading

Mixing pure lactic sessions with floating recoveries the worse ever

2 X 800m with the straights as close to flat out as possible (prob 400 pace) - bends floating recoveries approx mile pace

Having to keep pace in bends was the most horrible as unable to catch your breath. Felt like Lactic acid was pouring out every hole I had.

On the plus side allowed an unreal kick in the last 400 in races.

Once wrote:

3 sets of 20x400 in 60 seconds with 100m jog recovery - barefoot on grass.

I pissed blood for a week.

But at least you ran 3:53 and beat that Kiwi guy right?