RunningAHEAD - Topic: What's the most unusual or humorous name of a race you've participated in?

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What's the most unusual or humorous name of a race you've participated in? (Read 846 times)

Mishka view log	posted: 5/20/2008 at 8:29 PM
	Run thru Hell -5 and 10 milers in a town called "Hell" in MI

Scout7 view log CPT Curmudgeon	posted: 5/20/2008 at 8:34 PM
	Yeah, yeah, run through Hell, got it.
	Amat victoria curam. Sine labore nihil. Dulcius ex asperis.

mgerwn view log Saturnalicius princeps	posted: 5/20/2008 at 9:21 PM
	Haven't run 'em, but from the local race calendar, we have: "The Book For Books" - raises money for a local school's library. "Bridgeport Hospital Home Run" - Finish line is at home plate at the local minor league baseball park. "Slicker 'n Hog Snot Shuffle" Trail race last year-have no idea where the name came from. "The Cook Your Buns Road Race & Barbeque" - Post race barbeque & picnic "Cow Chip Cross Country Run" - This year's slogan - "Twelve years of terrific turds!" "The Great Train Race" - Follows the path of the local commuters via three rail lines. The commute takes 59 minutes; the run is 6.816 miles - see if you can beat the train. "The ShamRock & Roll 5K" - St. Patrick's Day Race, put on by a local radio station
	Michael Rev'd 2008 Goals: 180#s \| 1000K 2008 Races: \| Christopher Martin's 5K 2009 Goals: Less than 160# \| Run more, and more consistently \| 2K miles \| Sub 4 hr marathon \| Sub 23:00 5K \| 100 pushups challenge 2009 Races:\| NJ Marathon \| New Haven 20K \| NYC Marathon \| Monkey IV "The race goes not always to the swift, but to those that keep running."

Penny_A view log World's Largest Penny	posted: 5/21/2008 at 12:18 AM
	Tater Trot. You get a 5 lb bag of potatoes when you finish.
	2009 Goals 1. get to and maintain 20 MPW 2. sub 50 min Crazy Legs 8k -- April 09 3. sub 30 min 5k 4. finish Mad City half marathon -- May 09

Unbalanced view log	posted: 5/21/2008 at 12:57 AM
	Blue Nose Marathon Hyperthermic Half

dnephin view log Jeff right, me left.	posted: 5/21/2008 at 1:18 AM
	Run Like Hell (In Pittsburgh - there must be a lot of them around Halloween) Gutbuster. A trail run that does bust your gut. On Thanksgiving. Pre-gorging.
	Boston 2008 DWARP Marathon Madness Mob

Mr R	posted: 5/21/2008 at 3:44 AM
	Shithouse 5k: The Shittiest Race in the World http://shithouse5k.com/
	What was the secret, they wanted to know; in a thousand different ways they wanted to know The Secret. And not one of them was prepared, truly prepared to believe that it had not so much to do with chemicals and zippy mental tricks as with that most unprofound and sometimes heart-rending process of removing, molecule by molecule, the very tough rubber that comprised the bottoms of his training shoes. The Trial of Miles, Miles of Trials. How could they be expected to understand that? -John Parker

Ben_1415 view log Tolstoy	posted: 5/21/2008 at 2:04 PM
	I ran in the "Ambulance Chase 5k", which wasn't funny "ha ha", but funny "mildly inappropriate" since the event was raising money for a battered woman's shelter.
	Ben "A jug fills drop by drop"--Budda Hey, careful, man, there's a beverage here! "Running a marathon imposes major trauma and near exhaustion to the fit and healthy, and can cause severe injury for the medically unprepared."

Aamos view log	posted: 5/22/2008 at 3:34 AM
	Zoom! Yah! Yah! Marathon in January in Minnesota. 150 laps on an indoor track..... ....got me a mention in Runner's World Magazine, even! grins, Amy
	Masters 2000 miles

mum2girls view log Lovin' the cold weather!	posted: 5/22/2008 at 10:08 AM
	Last Chance for Boston (February marathon, 26 x 1m flat loops in an empty office park) Dead Celebrity Run (Halloween 5k, prizes go to best costumes)
	Jeanne Marathoner in Training 10:00 pace coach Next goal: Help 16yo DD2 do her first Half this fall (DONE!)

tuf_aint_enough view log	posted: 5/22/2008 at 12:31 PM
	Run for the Toad - 25/50k trail race.

ʇuǝɹʇ view log ʎǝʞuoɯ ʎʞunɟ	posted: 5/22/2008 at 12:49 PM
	Quote from Kimmie on 5/20/2008 at 8:11 PM: Now the flying monkey sounds like a blast. do you know if it fills up fast? The women's winner at the Harpeth Hills Flying Monkey Marathon 2007 won Flying Pig in 2008. She has the Flying Mammals grand prix in the bag. It would not surprise me if Monkey registration fills very very fast this year. And yeah, the RD is a bit odd.
	noʎ ɥʇıʍ ǝq ʎǝʞuoɯ ǝɥʇ ʎɐɯ

jeffdonahue view log	posted: 5/22/2008 at 1:21 PM
	This post just made me think of a race I heard of once - I think it was called somethign like the "Donut Run". At each mile there were donuts. You got time taken off your finish time for every donut you ate during the race. I think some people actually finished with negative tiems because they ate so many donuts.
	"80% of success is showing up." ~ Woody Allen "Go that way... really fast. If something gets in your way... turn." ~ Charles DeMar God doesn't give you what you want. He gives you what you need, the rest is up to you.

Relocated NE	posted: 5/22/2008 at 1:37 PM
	All Hills No Frills 5 miler

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posted: 5/22/2008 at 3:09 PM

Quote from jeffdonahue on 5/22/2008 at 1:21 PM:

This post just made me think of a race I heard of once - I think it was called somethign like the "Donut Run". At each mile there were donuts. You got time taken off your finish time for every donut you ate during the race. I think some people actually finished with negative tiems because they ate so many donuts.

NC State University has the Krispy Kreme Challenge. Leave campus, run 2 miles to one of the original company owned Krispy Kreme stores, eat a dozen dougnuts, run 2 miles back. Good times...

3,000 people ran it last year!

http://www.krispykremechallenge.com/

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