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meganjcallaghan
meganjcallaghan Posts: 949 Member
edited December 1 in Fitness and Exercise
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?

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  • Djproulx
    Djproulx Posts: 3,084 Member
    edited April 2016
    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.
  • meganjcallaghan
    meganjcallaghan Posts: 949 Member
    I think I do not have the balls necessary to do such a thing. lol
  • Djproulx
    Djproulx Posts: 3,084 Member
    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.
  • caitlinrn83
    caitlinrn83 Posts: 178 Member
    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.
  • meganjcallaghan
    meganjcallaghan Posts: 949 Member
    lol....true. it is kind of weird.
  • action_man
    action_man Posts: 21 Member
    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.
  • caitlinrn83
    caitlinrn83 Posts: 178 Member
    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.
    What is this of which you speak????? I must do this. Immediately!! :-)
  • mbaker566
    mbaker566 Posts: 11,233 Member
    my first race had cinnamon rolls at the end. and apparently there are pirates in the race i will be running this weekend
  • furmickc
    furmickc Posts: 43 Member
    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/
  • meganjcallaghan
    meganjcallaghan Posts: 949 Member
    furmickc 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.
  • meganjcallaghan
    meganjcallaghan Posts: 949 Member
    moyer566 wrote: »
    my first race had cinnamon rolls at the end. and apparently there are pirates in the race i will be running this weekend

    I do a cinnamon bun fun run every year. soooo goooood
  • meganjcallaghan
    meganjcallaghan Posts: 949 Member
    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. lol
  • action_man
    action_man Posts: 21 Member
    caitlinrn83 wrote: »
    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.
    What is this of which you speak????? I must do this. Immediately!! :-)

    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.
  • meganjcallaghan
    meganjcallaghan Posts: 949 Member
    i totally posted about this on my FB and one of my friends pretty much immediately signed up....i might go with
  • peleroja
    peleroja Posts: 3,979 Member
    edited May 2016
    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.
  • msf74
    msf74 Posts: 3,498 Member
    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...
  • Pam_Shebamm
    Pam_Shebamm Posts: 167 Member
    furmickc 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/

    I'm going to start training for 2017 :D
  • meganjcallaghan
    meganjcallaghan Posts: 949 Member
    peleroja 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
  • peleroja
    peleroja Posts: 3,979 Member
    meganjcallaghan wrote: »
    peleroja 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.
  • MinimalistShoeAddict
    MinimalistShoeAddict Posts: 1,946 Member
    Beer miles and Krispy Kreme challenge, tough mudder, etc are all fun
  • ClubSilencio
    ClubSilencio Posts: 2,983 Member
    Bay to Breakers SF.

    Complete debauchery. I think it might be cancelled now. Or at least they always say it will be.

  • Djproulx
    Djproulx Posts: 3,084 Member
    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.
  • socrmommy
    socrmommy Posts: 31 Member
    Love the Spartan Races!
  • pebble4321
    pebble4321 Posts: 1,132 Member
    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!

  • mommarnurse
    mommarnurse Posts: 515 Member
    meganjcallaghan wrote: »
    furmickc 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.
  • lizzy_satellite
    lizzy_satellite Posts: 112 Member
    I'm doing a half marathon in September in a vineyard that has six wine-tasting stations en route :)
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