I’ll start this off with once my speedo jammers split right up my butt while doing a swim workout. the lifeguard came over to tell me as I hadn’t noticed. I asked if I could finish my workout and he said sure!!
Following the wrong sign markers and accidentally riding the kids MTB course. It’s a sure fire way to go from dead last out of the swim to first place if you’re ever desperate.
Having swim jammers so threadbare in the rear that they were transparent. Finding out after the swim of course, and not knowing how many weeks they may have been like that.
Hopped on my bike at T1, shoes are on the wrong pedals.
got fastest bike split anyway
bragpost
Training, shat myself about 200 feet from the house when returning from a long run. Thought I could hold it, nope. Had to go in the garage and yell to my wife to bring me a towel and a garbage bag. Told her to just set them inside the door and I would get them, does she listen? Noooooo, she has to come into the garage to see what happened.
Bet next time she listens!
Hopped on my bike at T1, shoes are on the wrong pedals.
I did the same thing. Nothing bugs me more than being in a groove and having that happen.
Not really embarrassing, forgot to take my shorts to run training. Happened to be wearing plain black boxers, so just run in them instead.
First triathlon ever I was so out of shape that I was second to last off of the bike course. I was about a mile past the turn when I noticed a truck coming to pick up the cones. I said to myself “no way I’m letting that truck beat me in”. 4:20:xx in an Olympic where they cut the swim to 1/4 mile because of a really strong current.
Last Olympic was 2:19:xx. Come a long way 
Speedo split up the ass on the blocks for a race.
Training, shat myself about 200 feet from the house when returning from a long run. Thought I could hold it, nope. Had to go in the garage and yell to my wife to bring me a towel and a garbage bag. Told her to just set them inside the door and I would get them, does she listen? Noooooo, she has to come into the garage to see what happened.
Bet next time she listens!
hahahaha Similar thing hapenned to me last year while running. Tried to hold it but couldn’t. NEARLY shit on myself. I was about 4 km from home. It was winter time, so there was no tree leaves to finish the ‘‘job’’. Had to jog/walk weirdly to get home.
hahaha
Hopped on my bike at T1, shoes are on the wrong pedals.
got fastest bike split anyway
bragpost
Similar bragpost story for me…
First race on my new tt bike and first race with clip in pedals.
Clip stacked it out of T1 and rode off the road into the dirt.
Won the race anyway.
swimsuit inside out. Wondered why the lifeguard was all smiley and friendly that morning.
Shat myself right in front of my house. Was running and at about 5k from home started to need a bathroom. I had eaten not long before the run, I should have known… have had some close calls before but had never full on shat myself. Went straight to the shower and thought about my life for about 20 minutes haha
Then a couple weeks ago this happened. I have no idea how many times I may have swam with them like this… no one said anything to me.
First triathlon ever I was so out of shape that I was second to last off of the bike course. I was about a mile past the turn when I noticed a truck coming to pick up the cones. I said to myself “no way I’m letting that truck beat me in”. 4:20:xx in an Olympic where they cut the swim to 1/4 mile because of a really strong current.
Last Olympic was 2:19:xx. Come a long way
shit, you HAVE come a long way.
Not much here, couldnt get out of a new wettie the other week, had to get an official to unzip me as it was stuck. I have also come in a lap early on a bike course and didnt realize until i was getting in to T2, so i had to head back out onto the course for a last lap.
Hopped on my bike at T1, shoes are on the wrong pedals.
I did the same thing. Nothing bugs me more than being in a groove and having that happen.
Reason #3451 to get Speedplays.
LMAO at the shitting stories.
Worst i have done was when i was young, I spewed into my towel after a butterfly race at swim club, never did fly again lol.
When I was still a rookie on the bike I once tried to make a really slow 180° turn because I was going into the wrong direction. I wasn’t able to get out of my pedals and got so slow that just fell down in slow motion with my shoes still clipped to the pedals. Had to fight a minute before I got out of my pedals!
Always been a left foot unclipperer on the bike.
After my left knee went to shit & I got it scoped I decided it was probably time to even things up a bit, get more wear out of my cleats and get into the habit of right foot unclipping.
Pulled up the the lights one morning and unclipped on the right. All good. Then realized that I had my weight distributed to unclip on the left. Not so good.
Ever so ungracefully fell sideways off my bike to the left with my right foot waving in the breeze.
Luckily it was before 6am so no one saw me. Well, no one close enough that I could hear laughing anyway…
another shat story. still figuring out how to fuel for the long run the next morning so ate a huge bowl of Pho noodles the night before. what goes in must come out. Felt it coming but was about 1 mile to bathroom and thought i could just hold it. Nope. Ended up under a tree right off of a neighborhood. Now the idiotic thing i did was to actually keep running. the plan called for 9 more miles and, by God, I am going to finish. Had a rash so bad i could barely shower. the shorts have since been burned. for any long run, i now carry 2 wet-wipes and neosporin in my waist belt. no more chances…
I’ve not been in multi sport for too long, and I’m sure many more embarrassing moments to come, but two come to mind. First experience was my second ride with clip in pedals. I was feeling good after my first time and got a little cocky about being able to do this whole “clip in/clip out” thing. I was riding and came to the intersection of a busy rural highway. Unclipped my right foot, and leaned left, definitely looked like Humpty Dumpty and did the slow motion fall of shame, I’m sure flailing like I got shot. Of course everyone on the highway saw it, even got a few honks as people passed by. Needless to say, it humbled me and made me respect the small details a lot more. Second, my first Olympic distance tri, 55 degree water, and 43 degree weather, I survived the swim, thinking I’m happy, got on the bike and absolutely blew up. Way to cold, couldn’t feel anything by the time I got done, by far the worst triathlon experiences I’ve ever had. I finished, but last in my age group and bottom 1/4 in the race. This was during my HIM training, luckily I used it as motivation and my next race I ended up winning my age group out of luck and qualified for AG nationals. It was a very up and down season for me to say the least!