What's the worst that can happen? (on a run)

Running along the canal when the extremely hot weather has caused a big die-off in the carp population. The stench of dead, rotten fish permeated the hot humid air, no getting away from it anywhere. Every time I inhaled I gagged and dry heaved. Ended up vomiting up everything I'd eaten in the past two years, and gagged and dry heaved every step of the way home.

Ugh - and I thought running past the college dairy was rough! *gag*

World explodes.

Chafing
Losing a toenail
Bug bites
Cars backing out or running through cross walks.
Dogs
Nature calls

Endorphins - ahhhhhhhh they make it all worth it!

I had one of those runs this morning.

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/blog/dsjohndrow/view/why-i-hate-running-423982

ha - great blog post - thanks for the laughs! :laugh:

I have been attacked and licked to death by puppies...seriously. The owner couldn't get the puppies(3) off me, I had to walk to their yard so they could tie them up. I smiled for the next 5 miles.

I had a young pitbull squirm out from under a fence to give me pupkiss and a tail thrashing. He was about 6 months old and all wiggles. I had to pick him up and hand him back over the fence to the owners.

SNAKES!

Sprinklers! I tried running in the park this morning and all the effing sprinklers were spraying the trail. I had to run in the squishy grass and then completely detour altogether. Pissed me off.

I tripped on a pavement slab, fell @ss over t!t and needed 5 stitches in my knee! That is the short version!!

Oh goodness my worst was falling on my face. I was running along a very pretty mountain road and not paying attention (as usual). The next thing I knew I had stepped off of the road and was falling. I was thinking to myself "Man my hands are going to get beat up!" I put them out to catch myself and they didn't work! I just kept right on going! I may as well have not even tried. I took the brunt of the fall with my right shoulder and the rest of it with my chin. My hands that I was so worried about didn't even get a scratch. Go figure.

We were attending a wedding that day where my fiance was one of the groomsman....great pictures with my scratched, bloody shoulder/chin.

All of the above but the most detreminal for me was my iPod dying at mile 10 during a half-marathon! There is nothing worst than having only your toughts in your head. I carry a back up now!

Getting honked at by @$$holes freaking me out and causing me to stumble. I especially hate the ones that yell, "hey baby," after.

Heard a pack of coyotes, wolves, or wild dogs on a trail run at night...didn't figure I could out run them, so picked up a huge rock to carry for protection(probably wasn't real smart either)...anyway after another 2-3 miles...the rock was wearing me out so decided to drop it and just pick up the pace...new way to PR!!!

sh!tting. anywhere.
chafing- especially between my thighs. or on my bra line.
my ipod dying is a tragedy!
running wearing new running trousers, which don't quite stay up properly. then spending 10k holding onto them so my fat stomach doesn't drop out, and a yard of *kitten* is not exposed to the world.
o, but true story. i was halfway through a run and stopped off at a burger king to use the loo. i then started running home along a busy main street in rush hour traffic. i was getting beeped and waved a a helluva lot- i was waving back, thinking i'd become a bit of a local celeb. i was stood a traffic lights about 3k later when a gust of wind blew the 2 metres of toilet paper that was stuck in the top of my pants into my field of vision. so, that was super.

Still laughing - best one, especially the local celeb part :laugh:

Four things that have happened to me:

1) Lower ankle sprain while jogging across the crosswalk for the START of the first team run. In front of 30 people I barely know. Benched 2 weeks.

2) Heading out in capris I haven't worn in month (at the very beginning of my weight loss journey) to find that they are too big now and slide down my *kitten*, exposing thong, as soon as I warm up. Ran holding my pants up, until I spotted a hair tie on the ground and used it to cynch a knot in the side to keep the pants up.

3) Not bringing water for a quick 4 miler, turns out it's 90 degrees out and then realizing at my turnaround point I've barely had any water all day. Having to walk the 2 miles back.

4) Not being able to find parking at the start of my route. I'm a creature of habit and it really messes me up mentally when I plan to run a certain route and can't park!!

I've only had a potty emergency once, on an unfamiliar route, but got lucky and came across a park bathroom. Being dehydrated on a 90 degree day and a stupid public injury were worse.