Hey runners...
meganjcallaghan
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I'm doing a 10k race against an old steam engine this sunday....
Everyone does regular old marathons and fundraisers and such...what's the weirdest race you've done?
Everyone does regular old marathons and fundraisers and such...what's the weirdest race you've done?
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Haven't done it (and don't know that I could), but the Isklar Norseman race looks pretty wild. You start by jumping off a ship into a Fjord and end up on top of a snow covered mountain if you make it to the finish line. Kinda weird.1
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I think I do not have the balls necessary to do such a thing. lol0
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any time you have to put on an insulated swim cap and swim booties, then cover your exposed skin with Vaseline prior to starting a race, you know you're in for a tough day.4
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Probably not "weird," (especially compared to the Isklar race), but we're registered for our first OCR, and anything involving going through fire and ice is pretty weird to me.0
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lol....true. it is kind of weird.0
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Racing a train sounds awesome. I did that once out of impatience because it was taking too long to pass so I ran along side for a while. Oddly invigorating.
I think the silliest one I've done is The Oatmeal's Beat The Blerch trail marathon in which there were couches and cake at all the aid stations.1 -
What is this of which you speak????? I must do this. Immediately!! :-)action_man wrote: »I think the silliest one I've done is The Oatmeal's Beat The Blerch trail marathon in which there were couches and cake at all the aid stations.
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my first race had cinnamon rolls at the end. and apparently there are pirates in the race i will be running this weekend0
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I've done the Krispy Kreme Challenge. Run 2.5 miles, eat a dozen donuts, run 2.5 miles back to the finish. There were competitive and non competitive entries. I entered as non competitive, so I was not required to eat the dozen. I had one or two.
http://www.krispykremechallenge.com/0 -
I've done the Krispy Kreme Challenge. Run 2.5 miles, eat a dozen donuts, run 2.5 miles back to the finish. There were competitive and non competitive entries. I entered as non competitive, so I was not required to eat the dozen. I had one or two.
http://www.krispykremechallenge.com/
dude. i'd barf. lol....I can't eat or drink ANYthing before or during a run. Unfortunately this means I can't crack out anything farther than a half marathon....i definitely couldn't have done 2.5 miles after that many donuts.0 -
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action_man wrote: »Racing a train sounds awesome. I did that once out of impatience because it was taking too long to pass so I ran along side for a while. Oddly invigorating.
I think the silliest one I've done is The Oatmeal's Beat The Blerch trail marathon in which there were couches and cake at all the aid stations.
that sounds pretty awesome...but i'd rather have couches and cake at the end.
As for the train, unfortunately the train came in 7th of all 160 racers and I only came in #23.....sad day. I was the 5th overall of the ladies....but that doesn't win me anything. also sad. lol0 -
caitlinrn83 wrote: »
What is this of which you speak????? I must do this. Immediately!! :-)action_man wrote: »I think the silliest one I've done is The Oatmeal's Beat The Blerch trail marathon in which there were couches and cake at all the aid stations.
www.beattheblerch.com
The Seattle event isn't sold out yet for this September and one in Las Vegas is getting announced soon. If you're unfamiliar with his web comic about running you should read it. I believe there's a link in the FAQ.0 -
i totally posted about this on my FB and one of my friends pretty much immediately signed up....i might go with0
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I did a beer mile in the snow this year for my birthday and it was not fun. Minus 30 outside and there we were, chugging 4 freezing cold beers and running around a track covered in a foot of snow.
I want to try it again this summer when it's not so cold and snowy, but it still might be terrible - running with that much carbonated liquid sloshing around in your stomach is way, way harder than I thought it would be.
I've also done the Hypothermic Half Marathon but the weather was unseasonably warm and pleasant, just above freezing. The course conditions were pretty terrible though, with kilometres at a time just solid ice all roughed up from people driving on it. It was constant terror of slipping or rolling an ankle and I was ten minutes slower than my goal time thanks to it.0 -
I did a Santa 5k Run the year before last ~ basically everyone ran in an outfit.
It was pretty cool. There were little kids with their parents at the side of the path waving and shouting "Hello Santa!" and "Keep going Santa!"
Stopped me from my usual swearing when I am running I guess...1 -
I've done the Krispy Kreme Challenge. Run 2.5 miles, eat a dozen donuts, run 2.5 miles back to the finish. There were competitive and non competitive entries. I entered as non competitive, so I was not required to eat the dozen. I had one or two.
http://www.krispykremechallenge.com/
I'm going to start training for 2017
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I did a beer mile in the snow this year for my birthday and it was not fun. Minus 30 outside and there we were, chugging 4 freezing cold beers and running around a track covered in a foot of snow.
I want to try it again this summer when it's not so cold and snowy, but it still might be terrible - running with that much carbonated liquid sloshing around in your stomach is way, way harder than I thought it would be.
I've also done the Hypothermic Half Marathon but the weather was unseasonably warm and pleasant, just above freezing. The course conditions were pretty terrible though, with kilometres at a time just solid ice all roughed up from people driving on it. It was constant terror of slipping or rolling an ankle and I was ten minutes slower than my goal time thanks to it.
:S Neither of those sound like a good time0 -
meganjcallaghan wrote: »I did a beer mile in the snow this year for my birthday and it was not fun. Minus 30 outside and there we were, chugging 4 freezing cold beers and running around a track covered in a foot of snow.
I want to try it again this summer when it's not so cold and snowy, but it still might be terrible - running with that much carbonated liquid sloshing around in your stomach is way, way harder than I thought it would be.
I've also done the Hypothermic Half Marathon but the weather was unseasonably warm and pleasant, just above freezing. The course conditions were pretty terrible though, with kilometres at a time just solid ice all roughed up from people driving on it. It was constant terror of slipping or rolling an ankle and I was ten minutes slower than my goal time thanks to it.
:S Neither of those sound like a good time
Well, I mean, after chugging 4 beers over the course of a mile everything WAS a pretty good time, lol, but it was better once we got inside and stopped running, hahaha.
One of the friends I did it with actually trained for it (by drinking beer on his basement treadmill) which I found pretty hilarious.3 -
Beer miles and Krispy Kreme challenge, tough mudder, etc are all fun
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Bay to Breakers SF.
Complete debauchery. I think it might be cancelled now. Or at least they always say it will be.
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Some of my running friends do a winter destination race each year. A few years back it was a trip to Bermuda for the Bermuda Triangle event. 1mile run on Friday, 5k on Sat, 10k on Sunday. Interesting twist is before the miler on Friday, you started out with a Dark & Stormy. I forget the specific painkillers that were imbibed during Saturday and Sunday, but it was a fun weekend. Think I"m going to attend the next one.0
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Love the Spartan Races!0
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Hey, the train race sounds like fun.
I have a tie for my two coolest races:
- Wings for Life (just gone for this year, though they moved it across the country so I couldn't enter) where there is no set distance, you run until you are overtaken by the chase car. And it's held in dozens of countries all around the world at exactly the same time so when you get overtaken and get bussed back to the start tent you can watch the video coverage jumping from country to country to see where the leaders are. I ran in the evening in Australia, but it was daytime, nighttime and everything inbetween in other places.
- Last new year's eve I ran the Curso del Nassos 10k in Barcelona - not a novelty race as such, but running through such an amazing city at 7pm on new year's eve is something I'll never forget!
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meganjcallaghan wrote: »I've done the Krispy Kreme Challenge. Run 2.5 miles, eat a dozen donuts, run 2.5 miles back to the finish. There were competitive and non competitive entries. I entered as non competitive, so I was not required to eat the dozen. I had one or two.
http://www.krispykremechallenge.com/
dude. i'd barf. lol....I can't eat or drink ANYthing before or during a run. Unfortunately this means I can't crack out anything farther than a half marathon....i definitely couldn't have done 2.5 miles after that many donuts.
I'm the same way. The most I've run is 10 miles and by the last mile I had a headache (salt/water /fuel loss) but even drinking water will make me cramp.1 -
I'm doing a half marathon in September in a vineyard that has six wine-tasting stations en route
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