Just yesterday I was out on a run, across the street I hear brake squealing. I look across the street there is a shabby looking wanna-be fast and furious car. Some old dude gets out of the car in a hurry then a younger passenger gets out ripping off this tee shirt, they begin throwing punches.
I worked on a naval base that had a 4-mile long chip trail running from the back gate to the Officer’s Club. I was out for my run at lunch one day and passed a woman on the trail dressed in spike heels, a micro-mini dress and a tube top. She was walking in the direction of the O-Club. I went on about another mile and turned around where I caught up to her again. When I caught up I could see that both butt cheeks were hanging out the bottom of her dress. after I passed her, wouldn’t you know, my shoe came untied and I had to stop to retie it. How she got on base and what she was doing, I have no clue.
On a trail race around a local lake, I was literally run over by a deer. I had a rug burn on my elbow from where it hit me. On that same trail, the guy in front of me nearly stepped right on a coiled-up Cottonmouth.
On a local bike trail, I came up behind a young lady roller-blading. Daisy Duke cut-off jeans showing butt cheeks out the bottom and a hot pink thong “whale tail” on top. Well, it was time for my cool-down anyway.
Not on the bike or run, but a swim. My local triathlon club was practicing swimming at a local pier. Anchored out about 50 yards was a sailboat with a couple having sex in the cockpit reverse cow-girl style. They obviously saw us gawking at them and appeared to enjoy giving us a show.
Last year I was climbing a hill about 10 miles out of town and there was a snapping turtle in the road …
… I use on the front on the indoor trainer and still remember that turtle every time I look down at the big chunk hanging off the side of that tire.
Sounds like our mascot
This morning: 8’ kiddie pool in the middle of the road, just on the down side of the railroad crossing
Not an inflatable one either; we’re talking a hard plastic one, you might fill with ice at a tailgate
I pulled it off to the side, of course, because - in the fucking dark at 6AM - someone could’ve easily crested the RR Xing without seeing it and WHAM!!!
KInda like that boulder once before
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I cycled past Princes William & Harry out shooting on a local estate last year, said good morning and they both said good morning back, their bodyguards were pretty relaxed about it, well they would be, I had a bicycle in my hands and they had 12 bore shotguns.
An al fresco porno shoot several years back on a long run, I didn’t hang about to watch the ending.
The Millenium Falcon, The Last Jedi was being filmed on my regular run route.
Not on the bike or the run but 2 weeks ago at a pre IM race breakfast in a Cascais hotel several people turned up to eat their breakfasts in wetsuits, zipped up and ready to rumble, one dork even had his goggles on his head. Nothing to see here, move along.
Not really “weird,” but merely an observation
There is a place on my running route - a couple of them actually, on various routes - where I am far enough away from houses, streetlights, and other ambient light sources, that the road and the woods surrounding me are completely black. Through the gaps in the trees, I can see more stars more clearly than anywhere else nearby
I’m far enough away from the main roads that it’s fairly silent
When it is especially cold - like this morning, for instance - It almost feels like what floating in space must be like
Sorry for tripping out on you a little bit there; just wanted to share
Carry on
Def. a racer. One of my workmates owns 6 cars, and 2 of them are Miatas.
With 3, it’s easy - there’s the racer, the donor car, and the project.
Well, he’s down to one out front now
Maybe the other two are in the garage someplace getting their parts swapped?
So, i didn’t see that one is on the gravel driveway, and another is parked in the street around the corner
No sign of the one with racing stripes, though
For the past six months or so, he was down to just a single plain white one; today I noticed that a black one has showed up
The last couple of days: Nothing
And that’s the weird part
Usually, if I were to go for a run at 9am or so, there would be school buses, moms & dads waiting for them at the corners, contractors in their trucks
Nope
Ten o’clock in the morning on Thursday looked like 7am Saturday… only the dog-walkers and one senior citizen were out
That’s encouraging actually. I’ve seen a significant uptick in foot traffic. I’ve struggled with “my part†in this whole thing because my normal vacant running routes now put me in more contact than I would have otherwise.
That said, I can’t bear the thought of running treadmill exclusively. I’ve tried to switch to “odd†workout hours - like 8-10pm. Not like I have work to get up for…
I’m finishing the last half mile or so of a local 5k in Weatherford TX.
I hear all this crashing and noise to my right… and a pony comes galloping onto the road. Probably from some small farm that had been grandfathered into the city limits. And of course it’s black, because ponies are the devils horse.
I think I tried to yell “Pony!†but was too busy laughing/ hyperventilating to get anything out. Just running with a pony, you know, cuz that’s normal during a race.
Oh and since I’ve moved to Durango, I saw a couch on a dirt road on Missionary Ridge. It was placed on a turn on the road, overlooking the valley below & mountains. I ran up the road, no couch. Turned around and when I came by about 20 minutes later, there’s a couch. I think it was there for almost 2 weeks. I kept running that road just to check on the couch. Really wanted to sit on it, but, fleas, bedbugs… eww. Nice spot for it, I guess?
Running at lunch time in Primrose Hill Park saw a circle of Druid in white hoods and robes
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Let’s see, riding up the Platte river trail toward Denver I saw a guy riding a unicycle. Another time I saw a guy riding a penny farthing. Oh and three cars in the river after an ice storm.
Since it was in the 70s here in NJ yesterday, I went for a ride. I came across a house with an SUV backed into the driveway, with the rear hatch open. There was a man sitting in a folding chair behind the SUV, and another man standing next to him…giving him a haircut. Both men had surgical masks on.
Sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do, I guess.
For the past six months or so, he was down to just a single plain white one; today I noticed that a black one has showed up
There is now a silver with red top in the family as well
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https://www.instagram.com/p/CA0DciXnT9T/
A medical training dummy of some sort, I hope
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I was out running in the country with my 2 sons - both high school cross country runners. A car rounds the corner in front of us, tires squealing and kicking up gravel. I give him a “wtf?” look as he speeds past us in the opposite direction. He pulled over to the side of the road just ahead of us. I told my boys “keep running”. I looked back over my shoulder and see him getting out of the car. When I glanced back a second time, I saw him pulling a shotgun from the trunk. Then I told my sons - run full speed - he’s got a gun! We started sprinting as fast as we could in the opposite direction. We heard him fire the gun, but I didn’t know what he was doing. Then a police car came around the same corner in pursuit. The officer must not have known the perp was armed because the officer approached him directly by himself. We asked a passerby if we could hide behind his truck. So my boys and I watched the officer arrest the man and put him in the back of the squad car. My sons and I gave the police an oral testimony of what we saw. Too much action for me, but my sons thought it was pretty awesome. The officer said that he was watching the perp, and he got nervous and fled. Apparently he had a loaded weapon in the trunk that he felt he needed to discharge instead of just unload. Nonetheless, it got my heart rate up in way that I was not looking for.
Holy shit!!!
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Too much action for me
+1 to this
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Too much action for me
+1 to this
I’ve had the opportunity to have the most impeccable timing when running in front of the firehouse just as the horn went off
Almost had something to post in the “Shit My Pants” thread
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A couple having sex about 10 ft off the CO trail near Deckers, CO. I rode by quickly on my Mtn bike and they didn’t stop.