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elkid
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 Posted: 09/22/03 - 16:25 Post subject: what's the most bizarre
... running story you have? The weirdest fall or event? Been PMing a RRer about this, and it got me thinking. What odd event(s) do you think could only happen to you?
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copteacher
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Posted: 09/22/03 - 16:30 Post subject:
I tripped on a paper bundle tie once. I hit it with my front foot and it hook my back foot. I went down like a sail boat in a huricane
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shelflifers
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Posted: 09/22/03 - 16:31 Post subject:
I always get jealous when I read other people's running stories. Nothing ever that exciting happens to me on my runs...which may be a good thing, no?
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airehead
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Posted: 09/22/03 - 16:39 Post subject:
Someone pulled their car in front of Mr Aire and me and proceeded to ask me if I had written the article she had just read in the paper.
I admitted it was my article. It was about running.
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rolling rock
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Posted: 09/22/03 - 16:40 Post subject:
| shelflifers wrote: | | I always get jealous when I read other people's running stories. Nothing ever that exciting happens to me on my runs...which may be a good thing, no? |
altho, after reading rtpd's i think it's a dang good thing.
sailboat in a hurricane is a very nice visual RT
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kobyj
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Posted: 09/22/03 - 16:41 Post subject:
A friend and I were running in Eagle Creek Park in Indianapolis one day. As we are running, we heard a sound in the trees. We rounded a bend and there was a deer standing in the pathway. The deer just stood there and looked at us as we stood there about 3 feet away and looked at it. It slowly walked off and we just said "COOL!"
Yeah. I think that was the coolest thing.
Oh, you wanted oddest. Umm. Probably the 20 clowns that were singing an old sea chanty while riding a small BMX type bicycle during a blizzard. I'm not sure, but that may have been a halucination.
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brie k
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Posted: 09/22/03 - 16:41 Post subject:
well there's the numerous times that I've gone to hit the stop on the mill where I forget that there's a bit of a lag in the slowdown and I nearly fly off because my feet stop before the mill does. It's a synapse thing. Seems I have a lot of misfires in the ol' noggin.
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AlaninTX
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Posted: 09/22/03 - 16:42 Post subject:
Had a red car get on a marathon course and kind of stalked me for half a mile until the cops finally got involved.
Seen two dead bodies, sadly one was a fellow competitor at a 25K race.
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Maddies Wench
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Posted: 09/22/03 - 16:44 Post subject:
Edited cause the last sentence made no sense atall.
Last edited by Maddies Wench on 09/22/03 - 16:45; edited 1 time in total
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Maddies Wench
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Posted: 09/22/03 - 16:44 Post subject:
I had two wandering dogs look at me like I was an extra-value meal before. They looked at eachother and they looked at me. Then they looked back at eachother and looked at me. While I was searching for a stick or something they wandered off.
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jrjo
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Posted: 09/22/03 - 16:45 Post subject:
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Posted: 09/22/03 - 16:45 Post subject:
In high school cross country, i ran a meet at St. John's College. There were wild turkeys on the course and some ran with us (and attacked us) while were competing.
College cross country: as we ran and cars were stopped at a stop light, one of our guys liked to open the door to the back seat, slide across, and get out the other side...and continue on his run like nothing happened.
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Posted: 09/22/03 - 16:46 Post subject:
I've been beaned on the head with a few acorns before.
I think it was some of Cheeky's evil-doer friends.
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Laurie Ellen
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Posted: 09/22/03 - 16:47 Post subject:
I've been running again for only 5 weeks, and the weirdest thing happened in that time... about 3 weeks ago I'm cruising along, and I stop short because in front of me (I run on a paved bike path) a crow is eating a mouse alive, and the mouse is squeeking and trying to get away.
I have a hazy memory of a nightmare that night about it.
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copteacher
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Posted: 09/22/03 - 16:47 Post subject:
| shelflifers wrote: | | I always get jealous when I read other people's running stories. Nothing ever that exciting happens to me on my runs...which may be a good thing, no? |
you have to run Joel and not from the police. Though that I am sure was funny.
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