Running Don'ts

I found on this guy's blog some things that he or his friend had done before or during a race. In the comment section, some other people also posted their stories.  Some of them are quite humorous. These are the best of the bunch... 

1. Needed to lose weight before the season's big 100 miler, so started drinking out of streams in hopes of catching Giardia. Plan went perfectly, except didn't get the inevitable Giardia till the week of the race. Result - DNF (Did not finish)

2. After being out of town for a week, forgot watch was still on Pacific Time. Missed the start by an hour. Result - Ran very hard trying to make up for it and ended up DNF.

3. Wore camelbak on outside of jacket during a long winter snow shoe race. Hose froze within 1 mile. Result - no liquid for 4 hours. Most unpleasant race ever.

4. At race start, removed sweat pants to find...no running shorts. Result - embarrassment.

5. At race start, too cold to worry about sunscreen. Result - looked like a lobster at awards ceremony the next morning.

6. The night before the race, stayed at friends' house and ate pig that was cooked in a backyard pit and drank homemade beer. Result - Three "number 2" bathroom stops in the marathon. Lost by 1:20. 

7. Managed (via some combination of altitude, poor hydration, stress, and getting out of bed too fast) to pass out, clock my head on a wall, and spend a day in the hospital three days before TRT 100. Result - stressed out all of my friends a lot, but had my best 100m ever.

8. At a 50k last year this guy kept flying by me on a 6 lap course, but he would pass me twice on each lap. Finally I asked him one time when he passed me and he said he ate at Waffle House on the drive in and he had diarreah problems. Lucky for him it was a 6 five mile loop course with a bathroom at the start of each loop and 2 miles in.

He literally was running 1 minute per mile faster than me but probably lost 20 minutes, because he said he stopped at each bathroom break (2) each of the first four laps (8 total stops) before it went away...

He said he had the all-in hashbrowns...scattered, covered, chunked, diced, etc.

LOL

9,After the Umstead 100, I thought it would be a good idea to take my first Ambien ever so I could sleep. Needless to say I didn't sleep, but halucinated all night and my husband found me asleep on the ground in the woods the next morning. I didn't remember a thing!

10. I thought of a new one that happened to a friend; he was leading a road race in Montross Colorado until a Yakk ran out onto the course and scared him. Like we haven't all had to deal with runaway Yakks!