Have you ever picked up a girl at a race? Tell me about it here.

Djdjdjdj wrote:

A buddy of mine was the junior duathalon world champion, this was 1999. The race was in France. Miss France (like Miss USA) was giving awards out. She liked my buddy, he got a letter a month later from the French embassy, she had tracked him down.

They sort of dated for about a year, he made a trip or two to France.

She sent him all kinds of letters, pictures and gifts. When he was there the paparazzi followed him around.

This Miss France?

There is some gold in this thread: Target-rich Rock n' Roll Met a girl at a race, got horizontal. Oh yeah, she was on my team Married the first girl who said nice race or opened a door for me School records for picking up girls - racewalking when running has failed you Small talk before a race that in retrospect wasn't me picking up a girl, but she was definitely into me regardless

Been around wrote:

I've always been aware how socially stunted letsrunners were, but this thread has been a real eye-opener. I feel like Don Juan in comparison, and I don't even try. Rank amateurs.

I tried to pick up this smoking hot girl, Ragen something I think. She's training for ironman arizona. I tried as hard as I could, but could not get her up, or even to move an inch. It was crazy

This must be a record. wrote:

Ryan Whiting picked up 3 girls at the 2013 USAs.

http://www.letsrun.com/photos/2014/2013-photos-of-year/images/jmcdannald.jpg

Those chicks are busted.

I banged two girls on my HS team, two on my college team and hooked up with a bunch of others.

The hottest girl I hooked up with but didn't bed one I met a dual meet in high school. She ran for another town and had her friend ask for my AIM screen name after randomly walking up to them at an indoor meet and starting a convo. We would chat casually and then invited each other to parties. She was smoking hot blonde, pretty cool and a state champion. We started dating and had a lot of fun, but I was always one foot out of the door because I was graduating and she was only a junior. I ended up breaking things off with her because I was going to college and didn't want to take her v-card and then bounce. Became friends with her years later and she is now way out of my league. Funny how life goes.

You guys are pathetic. Jeebus. You can't handle the truth.

Letsmine more wrote:

There is some gold in this thread:

Target-rich Rock n' Roll

Met a girl at a race, got horizontal. Oh yeah, she was on my team

Married the first girl who said nice race or opened a door for me

School records for picking up girls - racewalking when running has failed you

Small talk before a race that in retrospect wasn't me picking up a girl, but she was definitely into me regardless

Been around wrote:

I've always been aware how socially stunted letsrunners were, but this thread has been a real eye-opener. I feel like Don Juan in comparison, and I don't even try. Rank amateurs.

I'm glad not everyone on the boards is autistic.

No....His name is Whiting.

No...I think you mean Artistic

Djdjdjdj wrote:

A buddy of mine was the junior duathalon world champion, this was 1999. The race was in France. Miss France (like Miss USA) was giving awards out. She liked my buddy, he got a letter a month later from the French embassy, she had tracked him down.

They sort of dated for about a year, he made a trip or two to France.

She sent him all kinds of letters, pictures and gifts. When he was there the paparazzi followed him around.

Cool story, bruh. Too bad it's a lie. The 1999 champ was French and it was not held in France. Better do some research next time.

Derpleman wrote:

No...I think you mean Artistic

Sometimes they go together.

I tried for years to get a guy I liked at racing to go on a date with me. I was always trying to think of the best time to try to speak to him. Undoubtedly, this is not before the race, but at the prize giving. Eventually, I succeeded in somehow getting a few dates and even more eventually, we did get horizontal a few times.

I don’t think he liked female runners much. I used to always worry about not being fast enough for him, but equally feel embarrassed if I outdid him by winning my own race.

In the end, he ghosted me. He treated me pretty badly, but my curiosity was satisfied. Yes, even people you know well and have mutual friends with will treat you like that, and I now drop anyone who shows signs of it and leave guys to do the chasing.

Echo the comments about lack of social skills in some runners.

Flossy Flo wrote:

we did get horizontal a few times.

Did you go obtuse?

This must be a record. wrote:

Ryan Whiting picked up 3 girls at the 2013 USAs.

http://www.letsrun.com/photos/2014/2013-photos-of-year/images/jmcdannald.jpg

Has he been taken down by #metoo yet?

Winning wrote:

This must be a record. wrote:

Ryan Whiting picked up 3 girls at the 2013 USAs.

http://www.letsrun.com/photos/2014/2013-photos-of-year/images/jmcdannald.jpg

Now that is whiting.

fixed

cool story wrote:

Djdjdjdj wrote:

A buddy of mine was the junior duathalon world champion, this was 1999. The race was in France. Miss France (like Miss USA) was giving awards out. She liked my buddy, he got a letter a month later from the French embassy, she had tracked him down.

They sort of dated for about a year, he made a trip or two to France.

She sent him all kinds of letters, pictures and gifts. When he was there the paparazzi followed him around.

Cool story, bruh. Too bad it's a lie. The 1999 champ was French and it was not held in France. Better do some research next time.

Ah, but he said Duathalon. You are probably thinking of a Duathlon.

Single weirdo wrote:

Before the race? At the start line? Finish area?

How did it all go down?

Are you still together?

See if this counts. I had some friends run a half marathon. One of them texts me to meet them for brunch and there was a friend she wanted me to meet. So I go. They had all run. The friend and I hit it off and as the brunch breaks up we find ourselves walking in the same direction to our cars. We keep chatting and flirting and I ask what she is doing the rest of the day. She has nothing planned.

So we decided to meet in a couple of hours for another drink (she needed to shower and I had an errand to run). We meet for a drink that turned into two. Got talking about being divorced and not dating but still having "needs". One thing led to another and we spent the next couple of hours in bed.

Not bad.

But alas did not see each other again.

can't determine without pics?

At a college invitational one year we arrived to the host school early and spent the afternoon in the college library. A young woman came up to us and asked about one of our teammates who had visited their school as a recruiting prospect (we were skinny guys wearing our school jackets so stood out like sore thumbs). She was kind of flirty so we talked a lot and kept up a correspondence for a year or two. Had one date of sorts, but she had an off campus boyfriend at the time so it didn't really go anywhere between us. Years (make that decades) later we both ran at the same xc race (one of the big ones) but I had since married didn't feel like approaching her. Just saw her name on the start list and results.

Post college ran a road race (PR at the time) and talked to the women's winner, who was a runner for the local U. I think she was with her mom, seemed maybe remotely interested but couldn't tell. I ended up dating, and then marrying her teammate whom I met about a year later but at a club--through some mutual friends.