Craziest race you have ever run?

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  • ItsMeGee3
    ItsMeGee3 Posts: 13,254 Member
    Ran my first full marathon in Nashville. Great time but.....There is not a flat piece of land in Nashville. WOW

    Marathon is on my list. I have done a half and loved it......congrats on finishing it!
    Thanks!
  • Twisted_Wrister
    Twisted_Wrister Posts: 758 Member
    Ran the Tough Mudder last Summer - 11.5 miles with more obstacles than I can remember, (electricity, mud, tunnels, mud, high walls, mud, hills, mud, ice water and a vertical ramp to scale)

    Also did a Zombie Mud Run with about 13 obstacles and a ton of Zombie roll players chasing you in between

    This Summer I have the Foam Fest 5k coming up and the Insane Inflatable 5k - both should be a good time
  • mrfreestyle
    mrfreestyle Posts: 1,293 Member
    All the races I run are crazy!
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  • Twisted_Wrister
    Twisted_Wrister Posts: 758 Member
    Ran the Tough Mudder last Summer - 11.5 miles with more obstacles than I can remember, (electricity, mud, tunnels, mud, high walls, mud, hills, mud, ice water and a vertical ramp to scale)

    Also did a Zombie Mud Run with about 13 obstacles and a ton of Zombie roll players chasing you in between

    This Summer I have the Foam Fest 5k coming up and the Insane Inflatable 5k - both should be a good time

    I did Foam last year with my daughter, if you can sign the kids up (if you have kids) I recommend it. It's a lot of fun, and not a challenging race like TM or Spartan.

    I would have but conflicting schedules with other activities prevented it. However, the Insane Inflatable has a 1/2 mile kids course that I signed them both up for!
  • DBoone85
    DBoone85 Posts: 916 Member
    Not running, but I was part of a four-person relay team who swam 41 miles around the island of Jersey in the English Channel dealing with choppy seas, 58-degree water w/no wetsuits allowed, and jellyfish. It was really cool to do it, but it was a pretty miserable day when you add in seasickness, and I'd really prefer not to do it again.

    That is bada$$!
  • FitWithWit44
    FitWithWit44 Posts: 412 Member
    I just read about this one in Running Magazine. You spend more time driving than running.

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  • DBoone85
    DBoone85 Posts: 916 Member
    Ran the Tough Mudder last Summer - 11.5 miles with more obstacles than I can remember, (electricity, mud, tunnels, mud, high walls, mud, hills, mud, ice water and a vertical ramp to scale)

    Also did a Zombie Mud Run with about 13 obstacles and a ton of Zombie roll players chasing you in between

    This Summer I have the Foam Fest 5k coming up and the Insane Inflatable 5k - both should be a good time

    I did Foam last year with my daughter, if you can sign the kids up (if you have kids) I recommend it. It's a lot of fun, and not a challenging race like TM or Spartan.

    I have no kids. Can I run it with yours? :wink:
  • wardamnirish
    wardamnirish Posts: 395
    There's also a clothing optional midnight moonshine run. ;)

    I could see myself doing that one. lol
  • angf0679
    angf0679 Posts: 1,120 Member
    That race we had to run twice. They started us in the wrong spot and we had to do it again. Only 3 of us re-did it.

    You had to re-run the 200m? Yikes! I don't blame anybody who said forget it.


    It got me a medal :tongue:
  • JoRocka
    JoRocka Posts: 17,525 Member
    I just read about this one in Running Magazine. You spend more time driving than running.

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    heh.

    I've been looking at doing some races this year maybe- perhaps- I have dance commitments though- not sure I have time for power lifting- dancing and races. Which makes me a sad panda. I want to do ALL THE THINGS!!!!
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    Bat'aan Death March Memorial Marathon- we competed as light military and ran/yogged/walked the event with a team of 6

    That is on my bucket list...living in NM, how could it not be? I was going to actually do it this passed March but I injured myself late fall/early winter last year and I haven't even been able to jog until about 2 weeks ago. My buddy who I was going to do it with also ended up having surgery on both of his shoulders in January. We both have it on the agenda for next spring though....
  • molbeers
    molbeers Posts: 1 Member
    Did my first 5 k in April and it was a Zombie Race. Mud, several obstacles, and of course Zombies. At the end you got a free beer (and could buy plenty more) and there was a huge BBQ. Pretty cool experience.
  • Chainbreaker
    Chainbreaker Posts: 124 Member
    The Zombie Buffet. Runners could sign up as either survivors or infected zoms, or join the pool of TBD runners for a 'special infected'dog tag. We joined the pool and lickily got selected to be zombies. Costumes were encouraged and almost everyone in both camps got really into it. Survivors wore flags that zombies tried to pull off. If the survivor crossed the finsih line with any flags remaining they lived, if not the were condsidered turned at the point they lost their last one. Aid stations were also 'conversion centers' where those turned could get made into a basic zom and begin trying for flags.

    Zombies and survivors begin at differnt starting points and the course merged about .5 miles in. The connection point was complete pnadamonium and a casual observer migh t have thought it was a scene from 28 Days Later. It really did spur one's predatory / survival instincts as the runners sprinted to evade being caugth and the zoms tried to run them down. Good times!
  • Cousin_Eddie_
    Cousin_Eddie_ Posts: 5
    I was wondering about some of the crazy/off the wall races people have run. I am signed up for a 5k Donut Dash this Saturday...you run half of a 5k, stop and eat a dozen glazed donuts, then run the other half of the race. I can't wait.

    What are the craziest races any of you have ever run?

    This actually sounds amazing omg
  • 3dogsrunning
    3dogsrunning Posts: 27,167 Member
    The Beer Mile (my local running/triathlon group organizes one every year).
    Ok, so I ran as part of a team, that **** is hard!
    http://www.beermile.com/

    The second would be leg 10 of this relay.
    http://eastcoastrunning.wordpress.com/2014/05/20/why-you-need-to-run-cabot-trail-relay/
    The leg climbs 385 m (1263 ft) over 6.2 km. Total distance for the leg is 14.7 km.
  • JoRocka
    JoRocka Posts: 17,525 Member
    Bat'aan Death March Memorial Marathon- we competed as light military and ran/yogged/walked the event with a team of 6

    That is on my bucket list...living in NM, how could it not be? I was going to actually do it this passed March but I injured myself late fall/early winter last year and I haven't even been able to jog until about 2 weeks ago. My buddy who I was going to do it with also ended up having surgery on both of his shoulders in January. We both have it on the agenda for next spring though....

    my bestie is deployed currently- we did it together originally- I'm considering asking her to train for it while she is deployed and we will do it when she gets back.
    It's worth doing for a lot of reasons.

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