Be honest - how many of you cried for no real reason after an extremely hard marathon or ultra effort?

Seriously? I'm so flamboyantly homosexual I make Richard Simmons look like John Wayne and I don't cry after races.

Mine was an XC ski marathon, but really similar to road marathons and ultras. I also don't race much. And after months of hard work, I cross the line and, bam, I'm emotional.

Felt weird. Not bad. But I'm usually a very reserved, not overly emotional person.

Do you cry at the end of sex? Do you only do that once a year too?

Why do you only race once a year? Maybe that's your problem.

I never cry.

But I did when I finally crossed the finish line of my first marathon after bonking big time and while telling my wife that I was never going to do such a thing ever again.

Not afraid to admit I nearly cried when I crossed the finish line of my first Comrades.

I cry when girls are to stupid to answer my messages to meet up. Why can't they be honest if they don't want to meet really for coffee.

I did after my first marathon. Picked up an injury 16 miles in and I've never been so glad to stop doing anything in my life.

I haven't cried after races but one time in a bike race I cried. Was my first gravel race and I led from the start (very small race). Basically rode by myself for the last 3 hours. I was riding some very high highs and some very low lows. In the middle of this pasture with nobody around I just started crying and cussing at myself while riding. There was nobody around and I hadn't seen anyone for 2 hours. When I made it to the last aid station I was riding a high and the guys said I looked awesome. Nobody knew I had a very strange mental breakdown in the middle of some pasture.

race more often. No wonder you go through such extremis if you're only racing one marathon a year. Personally I'm not much of a marathon runner. I do the 100+ mile weeks, the long runs, the marathon training but I can never put a good one together. But that kind of training said to be focused on a marathon gets me much better 5/10 k results and even half results than training focused on those distances. I don't need to freak out about a bad race because I know I'll race a handful of times in each marathon training cycle.

Wolf's Bane wrote:

race more often. No wonder you go through such extremis if you're only racing one marathon a year.

Huh? He never said it was a marathon. I assumed he was referring to 100m hurdles??

Yes, but the following day. Does that count? I was already injured when I ran the race, but didn’t realize how badly till I got out of my hotel bed the next morning and realized I couldn’t put any weight on my leg at all. I was out for 8 months.

Karl Hungus wrote:

Seriously? I'm so flamboyantly homosexual I make Richard Simmons look like John Wayne and I don't cry after races.

This is true for me too, except for the gay parts

FELT like crying several times. Mostly because it feels like pieces of you are smeared into the course, and you’ll have to live without them henceforth. My deformed toenails are about half healed after 28 years.

Honestly I've felt a little emotional during the last stretch of a 'thon, but crossing the line it's just relief and no more emotion ( back to normal)

The last time I cried relating to sports was when Paul O'neill retired. I mean how can this not make you cry?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoY3svcKSbc

I sure hope everyone that said they cried are females. There's no crying in baseball, you idoits.

I cried when my dog died yesterday :'(

Crowe man wrote:

I only race once a year so typically I go hard after months of building up the last 2 really hard efforts I’ve done I was pretty overcome with emotion at the end, crying for no real reason. I’m curious if this happens to others on here who push really hard ?

I was pretty close to making the Olympic marathon in 2016, and I ended up throwing a temper tantrum at the finish line. I would have made it if it weren't for Alberto and NOP anyway.

Similar here. I don't cry at the finish but I do draw a pentagram on the pavement and set it aflame if I don't meet my goal.

Sounds like Emile Laharrague. He also collected roadkill & asked the aid station ladies to cook it up for him!