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Favorite Marathon Signs

MinimalistShoeAddict
MinimalistShoeAddict Posts: 1,946 Member
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I saw more big signs than I could count during my first marathon yesterday.

What are your favorites? Here a a few that I can remember:

"Chuck Norris Never Ran a Marathon"

"Beer Ahead"

"Your Pace or Mine?"

"You are all Crazy!"

"Motivating Sign"

"You are ahead of everyone behind you!"

"Give up now before you have a heart attack"

"You can always try again next year"

"Its never too late to quit"

"Quit hogging the street"

"You are slow"

"You can stop now, someone already won the race"

"Purse snatcher ahead"

"Run like you stole something"

"Run fast I just farted"

"You are better than Congress"

"I love your endurance. Call me"

"Worst parade ever"

"Toenails are overrated"

"The zombies are catching up!"

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  • Cheval13
    Cheval13 Posts: 350 Member
    Some of these are just too funny. I can't really remember any I've seen that you haven't already got, but of yours I like:

    "You are ahead of everyone behind you!"

    "Give up now before you have a heart attack"

    "You can always try again next year"

    "Its never too late to quit"

    "Quit hogging the street"
    and

    "Worst parade ever" :)
  • 55in13
    55in13 Posts: 1,091 Member
    Ones I saw at the half I ran yesterday:

    "Run quietly, I am really hung over"
    "You are all freaking nuts"

    The really freaky one was one that said something about finishing in 222nd place, because I did (out of over 550 and I was 9th of 49 in my age group, so I feel good about it).
  • rduhlir
    rduhlir Posts: 3,550 Member
    "Betty White runs faster than you."

    "Turbo Boost!" (This is usually held up by the running club's bouncing hot dog)

    And the funniest I have ever seen:
    "Don't know why I am holding a sign, just doing what every one else is."
  • TriLifter
    TriLifter Posts: 1,283 Member
    LMAO @ Chuck Norris!!!

    ETA: I'll let you know after my marathon on Saturday what signs I see!
  • TheBrolympus
    TheBrolympus Posts: 586 Member
    The last half I ran in August a group put speed boost arrows on the course like from video games at mile 12. They were yelling and trying to get everyone to run across them. I swear they seemed to work. :)
  • sjohnny
    sjohnny Posts: 56,142 Member
    "Just think: you can eat anything you want today"

    "If marathons were easy they'd be called your mom"
  • lporter229
    lporter229 Posts: 4,907 Member
    Two of my favorites were " My arms are killing me from holding up this sign". and "If your legs hurt, just think of how my arms must feel." Also loved "Worst Parade Ever."
  • RenewedRunner
    RenewedRunner Posts: 423 Member

    "If marathons were easy they'd be called your mom"

    That one is my favorite.

    OF course I am quite partial to, "My Mom Runs. What does yours do?" <---my kids made this one for me once
  • redredy9
    redredy9 Posts: 706 Member
    "Why do all the cute ones always run away?"


    these two were together:
    "Run like there is a really cute guy in front of you" "and a really creepy one behind you"
  • diadia1
    diadia1 Posts: 223 Member
    i have not run any yet (planning my first half april 2014). but you made me smile today.
    thanks.
  • SonicDeathMonkey80
    SonicDeathMonkey80 Posts: 4,489 Member
    Smile if you peed a little
  • dorianaldyn
    dorianaldyn Posts: 611 Member
    My favorite has already been mentioned - "You have great stamina. Call me." This was held by a young, attractive blond woman - and being in Santa Cruz, CA, that sign could have been directed at men, women, or both!

    This last weekend I also saw a new one - "Press here for more horsepower" and he'd drawn a button on his sign and was standing on the road right next to the runners going by so we could hit his sign.
  • Bossit
    Bossit Posts: 118 Member
    Don't make me run! I'm full of chocolate!
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  • davemunger
    davemunger Posts: 1,139 Member
    "Go Mr. Munger!"

    --At an out-of-town race where I had no friends or family. It was the first race I'd ever been in with another Munger (I beat him :).

    The second was Boston, where I was crushed by Suzanne Munger.
  • DisneyAddictRW
    DisneyAddictRW Posts: 800 Member
    Smile if you peed a little

    I saw for the first time in September at the Sioux Falls Half/Full Marathon. It made numerous runners laugh! (I was volunteering and was put outside the state prison so another lady held "run like you stole something" - not my favorite sign but timing since we were in the parking lot of the prison)
  • SonicDeathMonkey80
    SonicDeathMonkey80 Posts: 4,489 Member
    Smile if you peed a little

    I saw for the first time in September at the Sioux Falls Half/Full Marathon. It made numerous runners laugh! (I was volunteering and was put outside the state prison so another lady held "run like you stole something" - not my favorite sign but timing since we were in the parking lot of the prison)

    I saw that same sign haha - and I was a bit leery running past that prison. You and the rest of the vols kicked serious azz BTW. The kids at mile 24 with the Star Wars quotes had me, but they weren't marathon-specific.

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