Craziest thing you've tried during a run?

I think you need to watch the Friends episode where Phoebe and Rachael go running together. Phoebe runs like a kit, flat out and limbs flailing about. Rachael is embarrassed at first and then secretly copies her but ends up running into the horse of a mounted policeman lol

as far as crazy things I have done - I consider trying to drink at the same time pretty crazy for just because I am so clumsy and I end up wearing most of it.

I no longer take water out on runs!

But other than that (which I know does not really count) I have never tried anything out of the ordinary

If you're looking to do something more challenging during your run I've done runs where every mile I stopped and did 30 burpees and then kept going. You can repace the burpees with pushups or squats or what have you, but the burpees really made it waaaay more intense. At the time I was training for a Spartan Race, I've got one coming up in a couple months so I'm probably going to strat adding those types of runs back into my trainings

I ate pancakes during the Pittsburgh half last month. A bunch of wake and bakes were watching runners and some chick came out of her house eating pancakes, and I yelled "where's mine?" She asked if I wanted some, and I said yes, and she came out with a paper plate with pancakes on it, along with a plastic fork and syrup.

nothing crazy like that. I guess i'm boring, but I do plan on running a Triathlon, which includes swimming, biking and running.

lol. i guess my runs are pretty tame. i tend to trip a lot though, and hit the pavement. i've been lucky enough to be able to twist and roll so my *kitten* hits the ground, rather than knees. i'm terrified i'll really injure myself one of these times. i guess i don't pick my feet up very high when i run. also, if i have to pee, i don't really hesitate to pop a squat. on my regular route there's a great place that i've marked several times in a church yard i pass by :happy:

Get hosed down by a total stranger.
I was doing an afternoon run and it was quite hot, as I ran past a house a lady and her daughter were watering the lawn and they asked if I wanted a hose down. To their surprise I did a U-turn on their lawn and ran into the stream of water. I got hosed down, thanked them and then went on my way.

I'm not a runner & never considered doing anything crazy while running, but I once tried to eat a bag of potato chips on the treadmill because I was hungry & didn't want to miss my workout with my buddies.

My friends damn near lost their minds rolling with laughter & to be honest, I didn't then, and still don't see what's so ridiculous.

From their response, I think this qualifies :bigsmile:

Beer mile.
http://www.beermile.com/



Ok, so I ran as a team but it is still really freakin hard to chug a beer then run a 1/4 mile as fast as you can.

Lol, I didn't know you could do it as a team.

My whole triathlon club does it. It's awesome. I did it with Budweiser. Some people did it with their favorite craft beer, lol!

I think that the craziest run that I recall was one where my running buddy and I were training for a marathon. We were scheduled to run 18 - 20 miles that day and it was predicted to be scorching hot outside. So we started out by saying, "We'll just do what we can do and not worry if we can't get the whole goal distance done." By the end of the run I was pretty sure one (or both) of us was/were going to die. We stopped about a mile or two from our destination so that my buddy could dry heave. We were singing Amazing Grace (actually humming all the words except for those two because the brain could no longer recollect any of the other words). And I'm pretty sure that one of us (not me) was hallucinating that she saw a man who was talking to us on our run. Either that, or the man was present, and my brain didn't see fit to include it in the memory banks because it didn't have anything to do with our survival. Yeah. It was hot. (And yes, we did get in our goal mileage. But I'm not so sure how smart that was.)

Different kind of crazy, but this is a monstrous glute burn. Watch what they start doing around 1:40
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owi2LUTopRE

listening to formula 1 sounds on your ipod makes you run so fast.

I'm dying...For sure going to have to try that!

I ate pancakes during the Pittsburgh half last month. A bunch of wake and bakes were watching runners and some chick came out of her house eating pancakes, and I yelled "where's mine?" She asked if I wanted some, and I said yes, and she came out with a paper plate with pancakes on it, along with a plastic fork and syrup.

That was awesome.

I do this every year. I like to run barefoot when I'm on the beach, but it takes some conditioning first. This weekend I went for a run without enough conditioning and cut up my toes with 2 miles left. Had to decide which was less painful: sand grinding into the cuts or salt water.

Then I went back last night.