Ruuners: Have you ever...
MassiveDelta
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gotten out on a run and gone to far or too hard or eaten the wrong thing, or gotten injured, and had to walk back home? What were the circumstances? How far were you? Did you walk? Get a ride?
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Luckily not yet. Most of my runs are circuits though as I don't like to carry a lot of things when I run. The only real time I had any issues was my first 16 mile run. Luckily I was doing 4 mile laps and I ended up only having to walk the last 1.5 miles back to my car.0
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Not yet, but for my first 10k I got a bloody nose halfway! That was a blast for the back half LOL!0
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I did once. I think it was more mental than physical, but eventually last Summer, my long runs (10-ish miles) were getting too hard for me. I could run that amount, no problem a month before, but suddenly, I would either need to stop to pee or start to feel like I was going to throw up or just feel exhausted and like I couldn't go on. One Sunday, I just couldn't do it. I was a little more than halfway and had to call and wake my husband. I had stopped and started walking home but it would've taken ages and with every step, I felt a little more like I might throw up. I haven't really run since.
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At my very first 5k I got tripped at the starting line by a gentlemen trying to pass me (he didn't account for my long stride). I ended up with a wrist sprained, and bad road rash on both hands, and down half of one leg. I ran the rest of the race all bloody and dirty. I managed to finish in 29:33 and I'm super proud of that. After the race I waited for my mom and sister to finish. She said i looked a little off so i opened my bloody palms and said "Do you think I should go to the med tent?" She gasped and ask why I didn't stop sooner LOL The medic was able to clean me up and there's not a lot of scarring, but that race sure was memorable.
Oh, and the gentleman found me after i got all bandaged up and apologized very nicely :P0 -
I tripped and fell off a curb literally 1 minute into my run. I went back home, cleaned up and finished my run.
Another time I tripped and hit the sidewalk hard (took the brunt on my shoulder). I was literally 1 mile into a planned 20 miler - I had to go back home and call it a day.
BTW - I don't fall a lot, I just run a lot...0 -
This happened to me on a long bike ride. Not a run. It was 105*, and I was cranking into a 30 mph southerly wind. I was so exhausted. I rode up to the porch of an abandon farm house and sat there for 30 minutes. Then rode home. Took me a couple days to recover from that. Didn't realize how much water I was losing because it was so hot and windy it evaporated quickly.0
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a little while ago i had bad stomach problems. went for a run, then a mile from my house i had some of the worst stomach cramps iv ever had, and had to walk the rest of the way home. my mum doesn't drive and my dad was at work. was so horrible. almost put me off running. but i love it too much
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Yes
1 time I was about 3 miles from home when stomach issues on a long run resulted in me calling DH for a ride.
Another time runner's math resulted in me being still 6 miles from home at the end of a 17 miler. Luckily an aunt lived about a half mile away and I was able to walk there and call for a ride. That would have been an ugly run/walk home especially as it had started to rain.0 -
This happened to me on a long bike ride. Not a run. It was 105*, and I was cranking into a 30 mph southerly wind. I was so exhausted. I rode up to the porch of an abandon farm house and sat there for 30 minutes. Then rode home. Took me a couple days to recover from that. Didn't realize how much water I was losing because it was so hot and windy it evaporated quickly.
LOL this happened to me on a long bike ride this summer. Way hot and not enough hydration in my bottles. I realized it when I was about halfway and I reached for my second bottle and downed almost half of it.
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I was out on a trail that's about 5k end to end ..... I was at the farthest point from my car when I twisted my ankle pretty badly...that was a long painful walk back. My friend gallantly offered to take off her shirt and soak it in the lake to make a cold wrap for it though - I always appreciate it when people offer to strip for me.0
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This happened to me on a long bike ride. Not a run. It was 105*, and I was cranking into a 30 mph southerly wind. I was so exhausted. I rode up to the porch of an abandon farm house and sat there for 30 minutes. Then rode home. Took me a couple days to recover from that. Didn't realize how much water I was losing because it was so hot and windy it evaporated quickly.
LOL this happened to me on a long bike ride this summer. Way hot and not enough hydration in my bottles. I realized it when I was about halfway and I reached for my second bottle and downed almost half of it.
Long slow ride back
Rides like that I take my 100oz Camelback..it was empty when I got home. I forgot to mention I had a granola bar during my stop.0 -
My first run in the dark, I tripped at the farthest point from home (can't really blame the dark though, I just tripped over my own 2 feet:noway:) and had a horrific fall. Twisted my ankle, completely messed up my knee and scratched my HRM all up. I didn't have my cell phone with me and it was way too early for anyone to be around. I managed to get up and hobble along for awhile. I don't know how I did it, probably my stubbornness, but I finished my run. The moment I got home I realized I could barely walk, so I have no idea how I did it. My knee was twice the size and I found out the next day I also screwed up my shoulder and pec muscle. It was quite the tumble!0
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Yes! I planned a 4 mile run. Had to go 2 miles down road and come 2 miles back. Went out with nothing. It was summer and really hot. I had been sick. I went out and by the time I got to the end of the 2 miles, I realized I had made a bad call. Thought about trying to hitch a ride but I just took it slow back and kept taking breaks in the shade. Some orange juice when I got home and life was good.0
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I think any runner has had a bad run from time to and just made it happen. I was only picked up once - I fell and was injured and bloody, I was miles from home and I still had to get back AND get to work w/in a reasonable time frame. I called my boss to come pick me up - cleaned up - and made it to work on time - dignity in tow, hurting, but was glad I made the decision to ask for help. Now when he knows I'm running, he tells me before hand he won't come get me 0
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I probably shouldn't admit this... I've had a couple of GI flare-ups on runs. Luckily both times, it was 5:30AM, dark, on a secluded, rarely used trail. Both times I finished the run (with great discomfort), made it home, and lied through my teeth when my wife asked how my run went.
I was out on a 120 mile bike ride, during a heat wave. I thought I'd be fine, as I was riding in a rather cool area, and was doing a circuit, with plenty of iced water in my car. By mile 30, the wind picked up, quite strongly. So it was hellish gusts of bitter heat. By mile 80 I was wobbling all over the road, and cars - some with bikes on the back!!! - were honking at me. I gave up at 80 and headed home. I was a wreck for the next few days.0 -
I nearly fainted while running (I opened my eyes before I hit the ground so I didn't technically faint, according to my doctor) and ate the ground. My knee and elbows were bleeding but I got right up and ran the mile I had left before reaching my front door.
You should've seen my husband's face. Poor thing!! 0 -
Somebody's loose dog (on a no dogs allowed trail) came at me from behind and knocked me down and I twisted my knee. He saw me running and thought it was play time I guess. I limped 4 miles back to my car. Took months to heal but I'm back in pretty good form.0
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I was tackled by a Rhodesian Ridgeback last year. Thankfully it was winter and I was wearing layers, but the impart was so great that his jaw was imprinted into my side. It drew blood a little. I was 4 long miles away from where I was parked and had a difficult time breathing and was gasping for air trying to make my way back to my car.0
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Yes
1 time I was about 3 miles from home when stomach issues on a long run resulted in me calling DH for a ride.
Another time runner's math resulted in me being still 6 miles from home at the end of a 17 miler. Luckily an aunt lived about a half mile away and I was able to walk there and call for a ride. That would have been an ugly run/walk home especially as it had started to rain.
^^^ Ahahaha! Runner's Math! I love it! Happens to me frequently. I just want to go and go, and when I'm out in the middle of nowhere I realize I gotta come back...and it's a long way back...and the sun's going down...:blushing:0 -
I tweaked a knee almost exactly 6 miles into a 12 mile out and back route (something like 6.1 miles, right after I turned back). That kinda sucked.0
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I did a 10 mile run. It was five miles from my house and back. I live in Florida and it was June. My clothes were soaked and I just couldn't do the last mile. I walked home.0
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I was at a park track when I tripped and fell. Awful skinned up knee and hurting wrists. For the longest time I couldn't bend my knee much because of the scab. Ohh! And I inhaled a bug a few days ago. That was a first.
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never from purely running. injured myself running while playing soccer though.0
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Yep... had to jump out of the way of a car (driver reversed out of their driveway without even looking & nearly took me out; I wish I had video, 'cause I felt like superman flying out of the way, but am sure I looked far less graceful!). Took a huge gouge out of the heel of my right palm and scraped all along the right side of my leg; finished the ~1.5 miles left in my run bloody, but unbowed, though I sure got some strange looks (and offers to help) from people I passed on the way...0
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I was at a park track when I tripped and fell. Awful skinned up knee and hurting wrists. For the longest time I couldn't bend my knee much because of the scab. Ohh! And I inhaled a bug a few days ago. That was a first.
When I ride and run during the summer I generally eat so many bugs I don't ever have to worry about hitting my protein numbers...0 -
Not the worst injury but certainly could have been. I was traveling out in Seattle. It was my very first run of my trip. I had run from my Hotel all the way down to the Olympic sculpture park and through all the trails there and then down the edge of the water. The sun was just creeping up and I was making my way back. As I crossed that first road out of the park a Taxi was turning into me as I crossed and I put my hand out cause I didn't think he was going to stop and I lost my focus for a second and as my stride took me up on to the Curb I rolled my ankle and fell rolling head over heels 2 times. and back up on to my feet where I proceeded to limp around for a bit and regain my composure and enough pride to continue. I stretched my ankle a little and tentatively began to Limp run after a bout 100 yards it felt much better. When I got home I realized how bad it really hurt. I ran 2 more times that week but they were both slow and the ankle was sore for another week after.0
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this weekend I was 5 miles into my run and had to walk to my car. Thank god I was on a tread mill...0
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I kept running on a stress fracture. It hurt a lot more when I stopped.0
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On what was scheduled to be an 18-miler I fell full-length splayed on the pavement when I stuck my foot in a pot-hole left after an several icy weeks. I was pouring blood from my hands, arms and leg and didn't realise it at the time but I'd torn the tendons in my shoulder and wouldn't regain full mobility for a year. I'd broken my phone when I fell and it was a good 20 minutes before I reassembled it and got it working again. I called my poor old dad to come and pick me up in his car!
Now on long runs I go in three-mile loops coming back past my home with each one. It's made me pretty scared of being too far from home if something goes wrong.0 -
Yep... quite a few times. Twisted ankles mainly but dehydration from drinking red wine the night before once or twice.0
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