First ever multi-sport race was meant to be an off road duathlon. Got food poisoning the day before and spent race day on the throne.
Another duathlon I jumped a fence at my work car park to take a short cut. I'd been junping that fence every work day for over a year and the day before the race I ended up on the deck with a knackered knee. Went to race but didn't race after trying to warm up.
Tough Guy OCR summer version, rolled my ankle jumping down the steps from the toilet block. Still did it but instead of the run being my strong point I had to walk a lot of the run sections and came nearly last.
A junior triathlon my children we going to. My wife set fire to the kitchen the day before the race. I was at work and came home to fire engines and an ambulance. Everyone was alright but the kids didn't race because we had to stay the night in a hotel and I had too much cleaning up to do the next morning.
My first ironman. I went away on the Friday afternoon for a Sunday race. My parents came to visit to help out with the kids. The first evening my dad crashed his car bringing one of my kids home from swim club and then didn't have a car to drive to pick the other two up from their later swim club session (I usually do this and my wife doesn't drive). The Saturday my eldest daughter got a splinter stuck up under her finger nail. Again nothing serious but I got a message saying she had to go to hospital. Found out a little later why. Had a few minutes of worry until someone at home answered my calls. The biggest problem before that race though was my room mate in the hotel we were staying at was a snorer and I didn't have ear plugs :-D.
It's usually a lack of consistent training that ruins my races.
Another duathlon I jumped a fence at my work car park to take a short cut. I'd been junping that fence every work day for over a year and the day before the race I ended up on the deck with a knackered knee. Went to race but didn't race after trying to warm up.
Tough Guy OCR summer version, rolled my ankle jumping down the steps from the toilet block. Still did it but instead of the run being my strong point I had to walk a lot of the run sections and came nearly last.
A junior triathlon my children we going to. My wife set fire to the kitchen the day before the race. I was at work and came home to fire engines and an ambulance. Everyone was alright but the kids didn't race because we had to stay the night in a hotel and I had too much cleaning up to do the next morning.
My first ironman. I went away on the Friday afternoon for a Sunday race. My parents came to visit to help out with the kids. The first evening my dad crashed his car bringing one of my kids home from swim club and then didn't have a car to drive to pick the other two up from their later swim club session (I usually do this and my wife doesn't drive). The Saturday my eldest daughter got a splinter stuck up under her finger nail. Again nothing serious but I got a message saying she had to go to hospital. Found out a little later why. Had a few minutes of worry until someone at home answered my calls. The biggest problem before that race though was my room mate in the hotel we were staying at was a snorer and I didn't have ear plugs :-D.
It's usually a lack of consistent training that ruins my races.