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I was running on a trail that has warnings about mountain lions and running alone. Despite that, I was running alone when I suddenly heard something large move in the trees not far from where I was. I was so scared that I immediately tripped over a tree branch and fell, but bounced right back up. There was a very large moose maybe 200 feet away. I said “I’ll be on my way now” and backed away slowly.
I was pushing it hard up a hill and almost to the top my quad decided to cramp up and i fell over. Looked around to see if anyone saw my ridiculous fall; no one did, so i laughed at myself.
Oh and another one… On finishing a sprint tri and jogging over to the water station, i tripped on the timing mat and fell on a plywood board with the sponsor’s logo on it, completely smashing the signage. I’m not sure if this shld be in “most embarrassing” instead of funniest moments, but i’m sure it got some laughs from the spectators!
This is not so much a training story but a funny story as to how I became a follower of you on twitter. I work at a Fleet Feet and a couple months back we had our Garmin rep in the store teching us on all their current products. He quoted you and what you had to say about their products and functioning more than Garmin’s own training sheets. He was right though, your product reviews are more complete than any other source. Just thought you might appreciate that story.
Hmm…how about the time I forgot my running shoes for a group run, so my friend graciously loaned me hers; she ran barefoot (well, with socks) and I ran in her too small shoes. That’s the closest I’ve got to funny, I think!
While coaching a kids’ tri class, road up on my bike on a slight hill, wasn’t able to clip out and fell over right in front of all the kids.
In a parking garage getting ready for a run in the rain. A mom says to her son “don’t run, the floor is wet.” At the same moment I jump the last two steps coming from the 2nd floor staircase and instantly slip my feet from under me falling completely flat and sideways like a plank to on the cold wet floor. Mom says to her son, “See what happens?”
Last fall I planned my very first century ride, “do it yourself” style, and mapped out what should have been a fairly easy 100 miles. I based my route on several other posted routes but when I mapped it myself I unknowingly included a “shortcut”. When we regrouped at the turn off, one of the guys with me mentioned that the last time he was cycling in that area the locals had pointed him in the direction of a longer less steep route. Not feeling the need to add miles I said “We’re from San Francisco ! We can handle do hill!” Famous last words – It turned out to be a Cat 2 climb from the Tour of California! Of course I was the only one who bonked (though I did go on to finish the full 100!) but I was told that some of the guys on the ride with me were heard saying “Julia tried to kill us”.
Driving my car out to where I was going to ride… only to realize I had neglected to bring my front wheel and thinking to myself (for like a split second at most) “I wonder if I can ride without my wheel?!” I really did not want to miss my ride!
my first ride with my new bike, I decided to attempt the steep hill I’d been avoiding with my ancient bike. I made it up the hill, then decided to go a little further because I thought the road would loop around for a nice 1.5hr or so ride before my dinner plans. Long story short, several hills and curves later I finally got enough signal to txt my husband that I’d made unscheduled detour and we were going to be late… arrived home about 3.5 hour after I left.
Hi. And have a great season. Spring has arrived. :)
Was at the summit on a 7 mile climb. In the oxegyn deprived state I get into after overreaching, my mind didn’t register that it was time to unclip as I slowed to a stop. Tumbling over, I noticed I was in the middle of a four way stop. So, as I peeled myself off of the pavement and struggled with my leg pinned beneath my frame, I was watched by no less than three thoroughly entertained soccer moms on a Sunday drive.
Classic
Last Winter, I was running with two friends down a snowy hill and on a flight of stairs, we discussed how that type of stairs can lead to tripping and falling, upon which I did exactly that. The guy behind me was laughing hard, but then he tripped and fell at the exactly same place as I did before…
I was watching a buddy trying to fix a flat near the end of a hard 80 km ride. He was taking too long. I just wanted to get home. Impatiently, I took over and quickly peeled of his tire, replaced the tube,replaced the tire and gave the tube a shot of CO2. My buddy was amazed by my speedy repair. Finally we got ready to get back on the road. Then we heard the hiss of the CO2 leaving the new tube. I failed to remove the small shard of metal that deflated the 1st tube. I am smarter now although not much more patient.
Is pooping yourself funny? O wait that hasn’t happened to me………Only heard of it happening to others…….Funniest is probably falling over clipped in at a stoplight on my first 25 miles of riding clipped pedals, only problem was it was with a group of about 15 people :(
Turning up for Club ride, to find had wrong bike shoe, 40 miles with Shimano SPD’s on Look Pedals, not the most efficient way of cycling
I just thought I should share this one – too good not to. It’s wasn’t a training ride but a learning how to mountain bike ride as my partner and I had bought mountain bikes for christmas. Took them over to the farm which has a bit of sand. My partner had bought MB shoes and was clipped in, which made dealing with the sand difficult, and he kept toppling over. Not having any symapthy for him I spent a lot of time laughing. Right up until I went down a hill a bit fast, hit a deep patch of sand and proceeded to fly over the handlebars in a cloud of dust! Once he figured out I was all right both my partner and I cracked up laughing!
Virginia from Adelaide, Australia.
Runing into a Lamppost looking at some pretty good looking girl running towards me.
Funniest moment water skiing…ok not quite training, but it involves a sport and it was funny. At University and joined water ski club for laughs. Very good skiing friend asked if the club had double binding slalom ski, they obliged, he put them on, complained that it was a pretty old ski and off he went. A group of 5 or 6 of us lay on the lakes grassy bank and watched his impressive skiing…he let go the rope and cruised in to the bank casually trying to get his back foot out of the ski and then step onto the bank…he just forgot about the double binding, well we couldn’t stop laughing after he ended up in a pile on the bank right alongside us, including the girl he was trying to woo :)
Hi Ray,
Here it is one funny moment during my running. 2 years ago, when I starting group running, I encountered one of my high school colleagues sharing the common passion for outdoor run. 20 years we knew nothing about each other and suddenly we met again.
Great blog! You have inspired me to hard training!
Hi,
No funny moments i’m afraid, but great giveaway.
Thanks alot
Hi!
don’t have a funny training moment, but count me in for a 310XT :) Keep up the great work with your blog!
2007 Chicago Marathon. HOT HOT HOT to say the least. I just crossed the finish line with a 15 second window of Boston Qualification. As I stopped after the line I lost all control of my bladder and automatically pee’d at the finish. I said to the guy I was running with “I think we are good enough friends now to tell you I just pee’d in my pants”. Hard race…..super funny ending!
Showing up at the pool without goggles is no fun!! Has happened to me more than once.
Hi
Let’s just say it involved a bush on the side of the road. Not me, but my running buddy.
Funniest?? Well, maybe in a sick sort of way….
I persuaded my wife to let me take my bike with us on a trip to Rome to visit her family.
OK…so the airline lost my bike case for half a day…and navigating the Rome airport for such matters is a special treat all its own…..but that’s not the story.
I study the maps and I find what I think will be a nice training route from my sister-in-law’s apartment near the Vatican out to the coastal town of Fiumicino…a nice 20 miles out, 20 bike. All good.
Of course, to get from apartment to clear road, you have to ride through the Eternal City itself….and the traffic rules are….special. Now there are rules….it may be a chaotic system, even chaotic systems have rules.
But, I forgot to read the rule book…..and being solo on my bike, I didn’t have a native guide to interpret.
So, I’m riding on the Lungotevere, alongside the Tiber River, when I come to a red light…..so I unclip and stop.
Bam!!
I get hit by a Fiat 500, old style…..and down I go.
First time ever….and I’m over 50 so there are quite a few decades on a bike.
So here’s the two part punch line:
1.) When in Rome, do as the Romans. The traffic rules include this:Red light in Rome? don’t stop – you might get hit.
2.) If you’ve got to hit by a car, let it be a Fiat 500. When the shocked driver and I took stock and surveyed the scene, his car was dented and I wasn’t!
nothing funny except running into a street sign once
:)
during a race there was a refreshment area, normally they pass out water at those posts, but at this specific race they also passed out tea. I normally don’t drink during races but what I tend to do is pour a glass of water over my head (to refresh it). In the assumption that what they passed out was water I poured out the tea over my head (luckily it wasn’t too hot), but at the end of the race people asked me why my head was full of white stripes… embarrasing moment :)
Trying to stand still on bike with feet clipped in waiting for traffic lights to change and then falling over in front of a car just at the lights turned green!
I stopped a bit away from a secluded trail to do nature’s business on a long run and I got discovered by a girl walking her dog away from the trail as well! I don’t know which one of us got redder from embarrassment ;)
One day I was finishing up a run on the TM. Since I was going slower I decided to respond to an email on my phone. Totally almost ate it. Did one of those fall then spend 3-5 steps trying to recover/not break my droid! Luckily, no one was in the gym to see it. I don’t use my cell on the TM anymore though. Lesson Learned.
Desperately seeking funny training story. Pathetic jokes need not apply.
Unfortunately, I don’t think I have a particularly funny moment to share, but it is fun reading everyone else’s!
My most memorable training moment has to be being chased by a huge goose! On a small path between a dike and a canal I stopped to let three geese with some 20 newborns make the pass to the water. Convinced they all made it I got back on the bike to continue my training, not noticing the REALLY big goose and the last baby making the crossing…defending it’s baby it started hissing and flapping it’s wings first, then chasing me for about a minute. I had to cover my head between the bars to stop it from picking me in the face while trying to gain some speed to loose the furious bird… At one moment I picked up quite some speed and it STILL flew directly next to me, a frightening sight! It was the fastest sprint in my life :)
Funniest Training moment: When I went running in -4 degree weather on ice :) I videotaped some of it. I was determined to get my training miles in!! And luckily, I never fell, butmy pace was AWFULLY slow :)
Riding the first mile of race on a flat rear tire….
Nothing too funny, but ‘Hi!’!!!!
I actually got on a bike that looked just like mine on the other side of the rack, and realized outside the transition area that I need to go get a bike that fits me, like my bike!
Thanks
John
Running on a treadmill in the gym when my towel fell and got caught in the treadmill loop creating the worst screaching sound youll ever hear. Only to then have everyone look at me, so I switched treadmills, only to have it happen again less than 5 minutes later. clearly, it wasnt meant for me to run that day in the gym
Bummer, too early to think of a funniest moment. So Hi! I would really like to win the 310XT
Hi :)
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I ran last Octobers Marine Corp Marathon in a womens running skirt for charity. Although that was a race, everyone knows the motto “never do anything new on race day.” So that meant I had to train in the skirt up to the race and make sure it was comfortable, it was. I PR’d the race and when my wife finally saw me she said “you have a nice butt!” I did hear a few more comments on training runs than usual, but I think people thought I was a girl with hairy legs.
Sadly, nothing funny has happened to me while training. Seems like a lot of people have failed to clip out and gotten a laugh out of it, but I’ve always felt in danger when that happens.
can’t really think of somehting right now, but i do want that watch :)
On a business trip to Norway I set out from the hotel on a morning jog. A pair of young females who appeared knowledgeable of the local jogging paths passed by, and I decided to follow from an unthreatening distance. After trailing them for a couple minutes I noticed crossing guards were stopping the traffic for us to pass. “Wow, they take jogging seriously in Norway. This is awesome!” I thought to myself.
As I continued to jog past a few more crossing guards, I began to notice that people appeared to be spectating, and they were casting particularly strange glares at me. I quickly concluded that I had unwittingly wound up in the middle of a road race!
A glance backward revealed half a dozen more women behind me, and confirmed my hunch. “I must be way back,” I thought to myself, because not a man was in sight (sorry, my chauvenism exposed!). I picked up the pace a bit, rounded a corner after a quick descent, and caught sight of the finish line. The large blue banner under which runners passed was printed only with the word “Jantespranget”. I pulled off to the side, not feeling entitled to crossing the finish line in a race I had not paid for, nor had I run the whole course.
Later that afternoon I went to a book store and picked up a Norweigan-English dictionary. In a two-word definition, the reason for the spectators’ strange glares became clear to me. “Jantespranget” means “girls race”. I was the only man in the girls race that day.
Tripping while watching for cars to pass through an intersection. Not too bad but several cars started honking at me when it happened.
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Hi Ray.
Too many to list.
Last time you gave away a Garmin, I missed winning by one number. Maybe this time it will be mine! Great giveaway!
On the first club ride with my new bike I failed to clip out at a busy intersection that was uphill. I fell flat on my ars in front of 15 club members and 40-50 people waiting at the light.
Treadmill.. A girl on each side of me. As I tried to say hi to one of them, I was spit out the back of the treadmill. They didn’t even stop to check on me.
Funniest moment most recently was see a lady standing in the middle of a busy street yelling and cussing, stopping traffic. I was passing by on my bike and couldn’t believe what I was seeing. Nearly wrecked!
Love your giveaway(s)!!
Love your giveaways!
I would LOVE to replace my 305 right now!!!
I always forget to push stop on my watch when finishing a race. I don’t think I’ve ever actually pushed it right at the finish.
Thanks! JZ.
On my first 40 mile ride with my team, I took of riding with only a 20oz bottle of gatorade, no phone, no wallet. needless to say, I hit a wall around mile 30 and struggled the entire way back in
After a day of tailgating, and plenty of “refreshments” at a South Carolina football game, my buddies and I decided to run laps of the stadium.
Early morning run and it was bitterly cold. To warm up, I pulled my arms out of my shirt sleeves to be completely under my shirt. I then proceeded to trip over a curb and didnt have my arms to stop the fall. Needless to say I had a little bump on my head. Good times :).
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I love your reviews, thank you.
On my first ever trip to Singapore I took my running shoes with me as I do every time I travel for the boss. I knew that in the sweltering heat I would definitely need something to drink along the way and went shopping. I finally settled on: Pocari Sweat (it’s close to the Dutch word “Pokke” which would make name of this drink “Darned Sweat”). Leave it to the Japanese (that’s where this stuff is from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocari_Sweat) to give a product a name that’s not directly appealing :P It seems Wikipedia agrees: “The reference to the bodily fluid resulting from perspiration in the name of the beverage tends to have a certain offputting or humorous connotation for native English speakers”: not a native speaker here, still funny :P
I’m in :-) want this Garmin :-)
Hi Ray
seeing women doing number 1’s standing like men.
still funny to see
Crashing on my very first MTB ride. An experience I haven’t had since i was 8 years old I think
indoor treadmill workout. Cute girl on the next treadmill, so fast intervals to impress her. Backstory: on an outdoor track, after an interval, I usually stagger into the infield, turning perpendicular to the track. After a couple treadmill intervals, I was tired, and must have reverted to outdoor form. When I turned perpendicular on the treadmill, my feet shot out from under me and launched me to the base of the treadmill, where the still-running belt scraped a welt into my back. I don’t think the girl was impressed.
falling in front of a full bus school when first bike clipping, every kid laughing on me…
I think we’ve all had that falling-over moment the first time out on a group ride with new step-in pedals!
No funny story, even thought all night. Thanks though.
funniest training moment?
well, does getting off course,not once not twice but 3 times during a 5k count?
funny thing is that it was neck and neck between me and some college gal-when i would take a wrong turn she would hollar at me….and then she would pass me,and then id pass her….
still came in overall female that race,but she wa a close second!!
My funniest moment is when I saw two friends both do the slow motion fall when they couldn’t get unclipped. (they were new to clipless pedals)
It was embarrassing for them but when it was all over the rest of us got a good laugh.
While in college I was coming back into the parking lot at the park where I left my car after a long ride. As I enter the lot I notice, a couple of cute girls are walking from their car. I go to unclip my right foot and it sort of sticks so I yank harder, knowing that I am getting to the point where I have slowed down enough if I don’t get a leg free I am going to fall over. I’m sure to the amusement of everyone but me. Luckily, the yank works. Shoe comes free and so does the cleat. Which goes flying directly into one of the two girls. Should have just fell over.
I went for a 10-mile run, wearing a pair of lycra shorts, nothing under or over them.
About 5 miles in, things didn’t feel quite right in the crotch area.
Turned out that the seam up my inner thigh was splitting open, and putting me in steadily more danger of being arrested for indecent exposure. I jogged home by the shortest route, keeping my knees together…
First time I fell off my bike after being clipped in!
Watching my then 12 year old nephew, ride his bike 5 miles back home after the right pedal had fallen off and we couldn’t get it back on! I’d just bought a brand new bike (Trek 7500FX back in 2005) and it was the first time out together on our bikes. He had to ‘hop it’ back like a kangeroo on the only pedal left! Mind you he still got up the hills quicker than I could! I felt so guilty laughing all the way back, I ended up buying him a brand new bike the next day too!
Seeing a camel (that’s right, a real live camel) grazing in someone’s yard on the bike route of Mountains of Misery in Blacksburg, Virginia… Yes… a camel, in a yard, in the mountains surrouding Blacksburg, Virginia, during a 104 mile bike ride. If others hadn’t also seen it, I would have thought I was hallucinating….
Hi – no great stories I’m afraid, but great work on the blog!
Ok. Desperate times comes to desperate measures. Being a mom with 3 kids, you have to be creative with your training. My poor 10 year old had a baseball game and I HAD to get about 2 hours on my bike. So….what did I do? I brought my bike, bike trainer to his game and got my workout in while watching and cheering him on. I got a lot of funny looks, but who cares! I got my workout in. :-)
I think one of the more humerus moments lately has been during a recent brick, almost ran a quater mile of the bike with my helmet on. Felt really silly running back to the house to take it off.
My wife and I just started biking and she when down a hill and around a curve and I turned around to see her unable to slow down and go right into some bushes. She wasn’t too happy about how hard I laughed!!
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Getting lost in rural Michigan during a run and turning a 7 miler into a 15 miler.
This past weekend I was running out of state, I went from 0-20 degree weather to mid 80’s. I thought I was going to die having no hydration with me. I was seeing stars as I ran next to Sea World in Orlando. I was hoping not to fall into a drainage ditch, but I made it back to the hotel in 1 piece, my pride was hurting after that one.
I can’t beieve I’m going to share this, but if I win the garmin, it will be ok ;-)
A couple of yrs ago I was running with a training group, and someone touched me on the shoulder, hmmm you have something sticking out of your shorts, I reach to pull whatever it was, I was thinking T.P. or something like that, nope, it was a pair of panties, I guess static got them stuck inside my shorts, and since I dressed while it was dark, I didn’t see them, I was sooo embarassed, everyone was laughing!
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Funniest? I don’t know how funny they are, but there’s too many to count in regards to my run-ins with gravity. I hate to call myself accident prone… but I guess that’s it! :) Just keep brushing myself off and going! Oh, and there was that time that I wasn’t wearing the right sports bra for handstands and burpees, and the ladies popped out. Yeah… classic :-P
Funniest training moment: Last week, I found a self tanner on the bottom shelf in my bathroom. It was probably left over from last year, so I decided it was necessary to test it. Under the motto “Engineers-test-everything”, I applied a solid amount to my entire left leg, leaving the right leg untouched for comparison. The next day was extremely busy, and I forgot about the experiment I had started the night before. I rushed to the gym for my BodyPump class, taking with me my favourite capri training pants. (Capri = they stop at the knee, if anyone wonders.) Sure you can imagine the rest… The floor-to-ceiling mirrors at the gym could easily tell me that my old self tanner had not died, but was still very much alive. I live in Norway and my legs don’t get any sun from September to June, so I completed my BodyPump with one very pale winter-blue right leg… and one fake-tan orange left leg. To the amusement of my fellow gym class participants, I might add. (I then went home and self tanned the right leg as well.)
My lovely wife commented (erroneously but kindly) that, since I started training for tris, I’ve gained a certain animal magnetism. Shortly thereafter, I accidently hit (but thankfully did not kill) not one, but two squirrels on a training ride. I’m not sure who was more frightened, me or the squirrels.
Great blog, Ray.
My funniest moment was last year when I was just into biking and running. I bought a Schwinn Alloy Road bike on a Saturday and went out for a ride on Sunday all by myself. I had no clue how these super sleek road bikes ride. While returning back just before last signal I got nervous when it turned yellow. In an impulse I braked hard but it so happened it was my front brake (being a lefty!). Back wheels lifted and I crashed on my helmet and my bike spun 180 falling on me in a busy junction. People around me where looking at me crazy and I burst out laughing. It was so obvious for my dumbness. The best was when LBS guys saw me next day with my bike. They were like you are back way sooner than we thought. It was crazy.
When riding uphill, I’ve learned that time seems to go slower when you keep looking uphill, kind of like watching the seconds go by on a clock.
So what I sometimes do when suffering uphill, is look down at the road and only look in front of me ever xx seconds to see my progress, and also if there’s any obstructions on the road coming up for the next xx seconds. And when looking down I rely on watching the side of the road to stay … on the road.
One time while on holiday in Switzerland I was in a lot of hurt climbing some mountain, and this technique backfired on me when there was a junction leading to a closed fence ;-)
Believe it or not, still not having learned my lesson, I had another occasion where this went wrong: about two years later I was on another holiday climbing the Mont Ventoux. A car passed me by on the way up and decided to pull over and stop only a couple of meters in front of me. So I rode into the back of this car :-)
If you randomly pick me, no need to send the Garmin 310XT since I just bought a FR 210. Just wanted to share the story ;-)
Theres nothing really funny that I remember. But I remember trying to try out my brand new bike in January.
After it had been raining the day before and then it got really cold at the night so it was just ice everywhere on the road. I only had the original tyres on my bike.
It was really scary! But my friend was really happy because he had his studded tyres on and he had no troubles
bout to start a 100km race and suddnely realising the camelbak bladder is still in the fridge….
A few Christmas mornings ago, I went for a long run early. It started to snow so I tried to take a shortcut home but ended up getting lost since I wasn’t familiar with my parents’ new neighborhood. Ended up running 15 miles while the family sent out search parties for me.
Hi! No funny training stories. Yet :)
Always funny to be running early in the morning (VERY DARK) and come up on some guy unexpectedly who screams like a schoolgirl. Not sure if he was just surprised or actually scared by my appearance that early in the morning (not a pretty sight).
Thanks for the opportunity to win such a cool item.
Can’t think of any training moments but I routinely forget to take my helmet off in transition during races and I end up running out the T2 exit with my helmet on. At one race, the announcer was at the entrance to the run course and made sure to notify the spectators of who I was and what my mistake was! At least she was kind enough to take my helmet so I didn’t have to run back to my spot in transition to drop the helmet.
On a long training ride where my team was trying out a new route, I skipped one of the directions on our route map thinking I knew where I was going, and ended up going another 20 miles! I guess that was more embarrassing than funny but it made me try harder to stay with the group the next ride. Thanks for setting up this giveaway!
Hi,
Funniest moment: after swimming a Masters program all summer in a 50m pool, I went back to an indoor 25m pool and swam into the wall on the first lap.
Awesome website, congrats on getting hitched!