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Weirdest thing you've ever seen on the ground during a run..? (Read 8803 times)

nole


heavy like a loaded gun

    posted: 11/16/2007 at 7:11 PM
    unexploded land mine Tongue
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    tipsy chicks

      posted: 11/16/2007 at 7:13 PM
      Quote from Blogrunner on 11/16/2007 at 7:07 PM:
      A vibrator! Surprised
      Heh, the story gets better... So I was just telling did about my finding. He asks "where was it?" Then when I realized the name of the street where I was running when I saw the plastic phallus-substitute I about choked--Wilcox. Tongue

      Kirsten

      '07: 1324.5 ••• '08: 1561 ••• '09: 1810.9 run ~ 208.7 bike ••• '10: 1,000.3 run ~ 3513.5 bike ••• '11: 710.3 run ~ 4157.9 bike

      '12 Goals:

      • more off-road

      • gain proficiency @ CX mounts & dismounts (ie stop leap-frogging w/people who ride slower after every obstacle -- finish further up the field)

      • punch Type 1 in the junk, again

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      tipsy chicks

        posted: 11/16/2007 at 7:15 PM
        Quote from nole on 11/16/2007 at 7:11 PM:
        unexploded land mine Tongue
        Oh, man...that's when I'd stop running. Was it readily visible? How terrifying! You're kind of forced to stare at the ground immediately ahead of you for a very long time after a situation like that, I'll bet.

        Kirsten

        '07: 1324.5 ••• '08: 1561 ••• '09: 1810.9 run ~ 208.7 bike ••• '10: 1,000.3 run ~ 3513.5 bike ••• '11: 710.3 run ~ 4157.9 bike

        '12 Goals:

        • more off-road

        • gain proficiency @ CX mounts & dismounts (ie stop leap-frogging w/people who ride slower after every obstacle -- finish further up the field)

        • punch Type 1 in the junk, again

        littlem


          posted: 11/16/2007 at 7:16 PM
          Quote from trishierunner on 11/16/2007 at 6:57 PM:
          Oh no --- living people. Sleeping people. (not any dead people --- that I know of ... yikes Sad )
          me, too. a couple of friends and i did a warm-up run in north philly last may and passed quite a few (sleeping??) bodies. running through manhattan inevitably yields similar results. i like telling the crab story more! oh, i did pick up a pair of "spyglasses" once-- you know the kinds that come in "spy kits" for kids... they're mirrored on the INSIDE so you can see what people are doing behind you if you look to the side and focus just so. i wore them the rest of the way home-- weirdest, dizziest run ever.
          nole


          heavy like a loaded gun

            posted: 11/16/2007 at 7:23 PM
            Quote from zoom-zoom on 11/16/2007 at 7:15 PM:
            Oh, man...that's when I'd stop running. Was it readily visible? How terrifying! You're kind of forced to stare at the ground immediately ahead of you for a very long time after a situation like that, I'll bet.
            When the EOD (Explosive Ordnance Disposal) guys initially sweep an area they will mark any dangerous stuff with white "caution" tape. They come back later on and dispose of it, if they have time. So I wasn't in any real danger. Big grin
            muse_runner


            keep running.

              posted: 11/16/2007 at 11:46 PM
              I think I'm more humored that K associated a vibrator with a black eye. booyah.
              running until I hit 1900 miles for the year.
              whether fast or slow I will just run.
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              tipsy chicks

                posted: 11/17/2007 at 8:48 AM
                Quote from muse_runner on 11/16/2007 at 11:46 PM:
                I think I'm more humored that K associated a vibrator with a black eye. booyah.
                well I thought Alex's smilie response of Surprised was a little too, ahem, graphic given the subject matter.... Though I guess that's not any more risqué... Wink

                Kirsten

                '07: 1324.5 ••• '08: 1561 ••• '09: 1810.9 run ~ 208.7 bike ••• '10: 1,000.3 run ~ 3513.5 bike ••• '11: 710.3 run ~ 4157.9 bike

                '12 Goals:

                • more off-road

                • gain proficiency @ CX mounts & dismounts (ie stop leap-frogging w/people who ride slower after every obstacle -- finish further up the field)

                • punch Type 1 in the junk, again

                jlynnbob


                You'll ruin your knees!

                  posted: 11/17/2007 at 11:37 AM
                  modified: 11/17/2007 at 11:37 AM
                  Quote from nole on 11/16/2007 at 7:11 PM:
                  unexploded land mine Tongue
                  so... you saw a "vibrator" too! Black eye Wink I was running a favorite trail once (pretty rugged trail, mind you) and came upon the foot rest for a wheelchair. I kept looking for someone in a wheelchair missing one footrest...
                  ""...the truth that someday, you will go for your last run. But not today—today you got to run." - Matt Crownover (after Western States)" “We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full!” - Proust
                  Daddyo


                  @BeachesRunner

                    posted: 11/17/2007 at 12:07 PM
                    modified: 7/2/2008 at 2:22 PM
                    dead rabbit....but.... It is a route I run frequently, in cottage country. So in the summer of 2006 I ran it most Saturdays and every Sunday training for my first HM. I saw this rabbit on it's D-Day. Fresh road kill, mushy, bloody, fairly '3 dimensional' still. I saw it the next week, after approximately 2 or 3 more 'pass overs' and less '3-D' The next week is was perfectly flat and somehow it made it to the shoulder so I had to 'hop' over it. Week 4 still there, getting greyish. Week 5, still there, looking quite pale and blending into the hard packed sandy shoulder. Week 6-9 (Summers end) still visible, somewhat more skeletal each day Spring 2007, first cottage country run of the year, now almost 10 months after D-Day, hard to tell, but as I knew the spot so well, I could see fossilized remains within the dirt.
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                    tipsy chicks

                      posted: 11/17/2007 at 12:11 PM
                      Quote from Daddyo on 11/17/2007 at 12:07 PM:
                      This is how I picture the pace bunny in the 1500 mile group!
                      Ha! The 1000 mile pace bunny looks like that to me, too...only he's a couple hundred miles behind me, now. I saw a possum like that yesterday. Hard to believe he was so flat and still so clearly a possum. I think his nasty little naked tail gave him away. k

                      Kirsten

                      '07: 1324.5 ••• '08: 1561 ••• '09: 1810.9 run ~ 208.7 bike ••• '10: 1,000.3 run ~ 3513.5 bike ••• '11: 710.3 run ~ 4157.9 bike

                      '12 Goals:

                      • more off-road

                      • gain proficiency @ CX mounts & dismounts (ie stop leap-frogging w/people who ride slower after every obstacle -- finish further up the field)

                      • punch Type 1 in the junk, again

                      Daddyo


                      @BeachesRunner

                        posted: 11/17/2007 at 12:20 PM
                        Quote from zoom-zoom on 11/17/2007 at 12:11 PM:
                        naked tail
                        Naked tail is hot!
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                        tipsy chicks

                          posted: 11/17/2007 at 12:42 PM
                          Quote from Daddyo on 11/17/2007 at 12:20 PM:
                          Naked tail is hot!
                          *resists putting this in my sig*

                          Kirsten

                          '07: 1324.5 ••• '08: 1561 ••• '09: 1810.9 run ~ 208.7 bike ••• '10: 1,000.3 run ~ 3513.5 bike ••• '11: 710.3 run ~ 4157.9 bike

                          '12 Goals:

                          • more off-road

                          • gain proficiency @ CX mounts & dismounts (ie stop leap-frogging w/people who ride slower after every obstacle -- finish further up the field)

                          • punch Type 1 in the junk, again

                          trishierunner


                          esq.

                            posted: 11/17/2007 at 12:42 PM
                            Quote from Daddyo on 11/17/2007 at 12:20 PM:
                            Naked tail is hot!
                            haha ... at first I thought you had a rodent fetish, dave Big grin
                            2009: BQ?
                            Daddyo


                            @BeachesRunner

                              posted: 11/17/2007 at 4:18 PM
                              Quote from trishierunner on 11/17/2007 at 12:42 PM:
                              haha ... at first I thought you had a rodent fetish, dave Big grin
                              Maybe I do.... Surprised
                              rvelich


                              Another Passion

                                posted: 11/17/2007 at 4:35 PM
                                A sillver cross. I was going to pick it up and didn't. My wife came by the same cross on one of her runs and did pick it up. When she got back from that run she said "look what I found on my run today." I told her that I had ran by that very same cross. Kind of weird.
                                Rick
                                "The will to win means nothing without the will to prepare." - Juma Ikangaa
                                "I wanna go fast." Ricky Bobby
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