Strangest thing you have seen running

digger2d2

At a track race last year I saw a nun, a hooker and a pirate!!

snailsong

rom wrote: »

https://www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/14827164754/in/set-72157645760084470 ?

I notice he's not wearing a number. I doubt this guy ran 13 miles.

skittles11

Closer to home seen a girl having a whizz into the river in Cavan town during the fleadh cheoil - when she seen me run past she stumbled backwards and fell in!!
Must have done the quote thing wrong but the above is a quote from rom. I'm useless with this stuff!

On my bike a few years back using a common enough shortcut, came around a corner to find a female traveller taking a s#$¥ in the middle of the path, she reefed her pants up when she saw me! I hope for her sake she was finished!!

More recently I was doing my lsr around Roundwood reservoir with my dog. Because I was doing laps I kept meeting 3 girls walking together with big smiles and praise for the dog as I ran by. So as I was about to pass them for the 4th time I noticed they were only 2 and they were standing still (keeping sketch! But my runners brain couldn't figure that out!). My dog ran ahead to recieve her praise then disappeared into the ditch to spook out whatever was hiding in there! The 2 lookouts didn't have time to think and hung their heads and walked away while the poor girl behind the bushes got the life frightened out of her by the dog and then stared at by a confused runner!

Chartsengrafs

skittles11 wrote: »

Closer to home seen a girl having a whizz into the river in Cavan town during the fleadh cheoil - when she seen me run past she stumbled backwards and fell in!!
Must have done the quote thing wrong but the above is a quote from rom. I'm useless with this stuff!

On my bike a few years back using a common enough shortcut, came around a corner to find a female traveller taking a s#$¥ in the middle of the path, she reefed her pants up when she saw me! I hope for her sake she was finished!!

More recently I was doing my lsr around Roundwood reservoir with my dog. Because I was doing laps I kept meeting 3 girls walking together with big smiles and praise for the dog as I ran by. So as I was about to pass them for the 4th time I noticed they were only 2 and they were standing still (keeping sketch! But my runners brain couldn't figure that out!). My dog ran ahead to recieve her praise then disappeared into the ditch to spook out whatever was hiding in there! The 2 lookouts didn't have time to think and hung their heads and walked away while the poor girl behind the bushes got the life frightened out of her by the dog and then stared at by a confused runner!

Lovely stories, all.

GerB40

skittles8710 wrote: »

A seagull wading in the liffey holding a syringe in its beak..was gutted I didn't have a camera on me!

Junkie seagulls.. Tragic.....

robinph

digger2d2 wrote: »

At a track race last year I saw a nun, a hooker and a pirate!!

You have to finish the joke now you've started it.

snailsong

digger2d2 wrote: »

At a track race last year I saw a nun, a hooker and a pirate!!

How did she find the time for all three?

Lou.m

Lots of abandoned baby dolls all messed up some missing limbs in a heap. Dunno if it's the strangest.

JohnDozer

While running yesterday evening, saw a woman taking her big black labrador for a walk... The woman was carrying a short stick, while the dog had a bottle of water in his mouth! Bit of a role reversal methinks?

ThisRegard

Early Sunday morning on a local run I saw a van parked on the other side of the road where there's no reason to park, no houses, businesses or amenities around so my first though was illegal dumping. I was going to be coming back that way in 10 minutes so I said to myself I'd check it out.

So on the way back I looked over the fence into the ditch and field and spotted some guy lying down wearing full combat fatigues. He has some sort of arrangement of ropes and crap so it looked like he was hunting rabbits or hares. Felt like deflating his tyres.

spurscormac

Went for an early morning run last Friday around the Science Park in Valencia and found a smashed coconut on the ground just after passing under one of the bridges overhead.

Was thinking either it fell from someones shopping bag or someone was just in the mood for smashing coconuts at some point overnight, still a strange sight in a city centre park.

chrissymc

Maybe he couldnt afford the fancy running clothes especially after paying the entry fee, or he left his running gear on the bus

rom

People dogging.

Slow_Runner

On my long run at stupid o'clock yesterday and saw a cat and a rat walking across the road side by side as if best of buds. The animals are plotting against us methinks:eek:

eoinín

Normally I don't see anything unusual but today I got 2 oddities in rapid succession, both around Sandymount. The first was a woman raking a random part of the beach (!). Soon after, on the promenade, a guy on a skateboard came flying by being towed by a labrador. He must have been doing around 6 min / mile.

crisco10

Speaking of Sandymount strand......
Saw this yesterday: a well dressed woman, walking around with a metal detector, a digging kit (small shovel, trowel etc) and a bag of sand covered junk.

Either she is an extreme neat freak (digging to clean) or some sort of weird hoarder! The thought of her house as a hoarder entertained me all the way to merrion gates; I had the Channel 4 documentary scripted and all! :-)

hardCopy

In the Phoenix Park during the Race Series Half Marathon a couple of years ago, I nipped into the trees for a natural break and almost stumbled on some lad dropping a number two behind a tree with his mate watching him (both runners).

Cabaal

Kinda odd,

Few weeks back I was running through town at 6am, not a soul around..... Except for two crows rolling around in the middle of the road fighting each over.

Above them atleast 200 crows were flying around in a circle going nuts!

I ran underneath the circling crows... Felt like a scene from the movie the birds, abit unnerving in away

PaulieC

Cabaal wrote: »

Kinda odd,

Few weeks back I was running through town at 6am, not a soul around..... Except for two crows rolling around in the middle of the road fighting each over.

Above them atleast 200 crows were flying around in a circle going nuts!

I ran underneath the circling crows... Felt like a scene from the movie the birds, abit unnerving in away

It was attempted murder.


I shall get my coat.

eoinín

crisco10 wrote: »

Speaking of Sandymount strand......
Saw this yesterday: a well dressed woman, walking around with a metal detector, a digging kit (small shovel, trowel etc) and a bag of sand covered junk.

Could have been the same lady I saw the day before...

There's clearly something in the water in Sandymount this week. Today on my cycle home I saw a respectably dressed gent drawing a fairly large WW2 German military insignia, complete with Swastika, on the sand, using the point of his umbrella. It was a bit like this...



It was a very odd and disconcerting thing to see someone doing. I should really have stopped and remonstrated but I'm not one for confrontations...

crisco10

Maybe they actually built the incinerator down there and it is slowly driving everyone batsh!t crazy..

PaulieC

there is some kind of art exhibition going on on Sandymount strand which would explain all these things (apart from the skateboard thing). I was out one morning a couple of weeks ago and there was a giant Brigid's Cross made out of what looked like pallets out on the sand. On my way back it was being collected.

plodder

A good few weeks ago, I was out on the by roads of North county Dublin, and was passed by a tractor pulling a trailer filled with bananas.

ThisRegard

There's a Fyffes in Swords, not sure if it's one of their warehouses but it might be.

PaddyOisin

Stopped in the trees in the Phoenix Park for a comfort break. Looked down and there was a full-sized badger standing beside me. I don't know who got the bigger fright. I started remembering all the stories of badgers never letting go when they bite...................

plodder

ThisRegard wrote: »

There's a Fyffes in Swords, not sure if it's one of their warehouses but it might be.

It was over nearer St Margarets, where Donnelly's (fruit) are. Either way I hope they weren't destined for the human food-chain, the way they were piled up..

skittles11

Ooh, I remembered another one! Don't actually know how I forgot about this.

On another long run around Roundwood reservoir I turned a corner to see a couple out walking their dog and their pet deer!! Weird enough? No? The deer was eating a banana!!

I've since seen said deer in the company of said couple and I believe they found it as an injured fawn and nursed it back to health.

opus

I was on the final mile of a jog earlier in the week along the docks in Cork and came across a dude sitting on the edge strumming a guitar & singing. Cause I was running into the sun didn't notice the other guy who photographing him like crazy so guess I stumbled onto an album/single shoot for somebody! Hopefully I don't appear in any of the pics

GerB40

opus wrote: »

I was on the final mile of a jog earlier in the week along the docks in Cork and came across a dude sitting on the edge strumming a guitar & singing. Cause I was running into the sun didn't notice the other guy who photographing him like crazy so guess I stumbled onto an album/single shoot for somebody! Hopefully I don't appear in any of the pics

If it goes well for him you could demand royalties..

agent graves

i was passing the running track in kilcock one day in the rain and there was a woman running around the track while holding an umbrella.. she was still getting soaked regardless.

Enduro

opus wrote: »

I was on the final mile of a jog earlier in the week along the docks in Cork and came across a dude sitting on the edge strumming a guitar & singing. Cause I was running into the sun didn't notice the other guy who photographing him like crazy so guess I stumbled onto an album/single shoot for somebody! Hopefully I don't appear in any of the pics

That triggered a memory of mine from a few years ago. Was doing one of my usual training runs in the Dublin hills on a winter night. When I got to the forest entrance barrier at Tibradden (Where zip-it is now) there was a lad playing a guitar and singing away, lit up by his camera lights. He was all on his own though. Must have been making a music video for himself or something, but it seemed like an odd choice of time and location (in the dark he could have been anywhere, but he had to have gone a long way out of his way to get to that particular spot).

This Fat Girl Runs

I saw a fox trotting up a hill from the Quay in Dublin this week on one of my runs. At first I thought it was a cat but then did a double take. It was too dark to take a photo, but the fox just casually jogged up the hill (I was headed down). I've seen foxed in Stephen's Green but never on a street like that!

Hannibal Smith

This Fat Girl Runs wrote: »

I saw a fox trotting up a hill from the Quay in Dublin this week on one of my runs. At first I thought it was a cat but then did a double take. It was too dark to take a photo, but the fox just casually jogged up the hill (I was headed down). I've seen foxed in Stephen's Green but never on a street like that!

They say the more normal the hour you see a fox the more desperate they are for food. Unless you were running at 3am

Last winter I was running in the evening and it was lashing rain. I nearly put my foot down on what I thought was a leaf but when I looked again I saw it was a frog! I nearly broke my ankle trying to change where i planted my trotter in the last second lol

A few weeks ago I came across a spider. ..massive big thing in the middle of the path...no joke. .I actually ran around it!!!

This Fat Girl Runs

Hannibal Smith wrote: »

They say the more normal the hour you see a fox the more desperate they are for food. Unless you were running at 3am

Last winter I was running in the evening and it was lashing rain. I nearly put my foot down on what I thought was a leaf but when I looked again I saw it was a frog! I nearly broke my ankle trying to change where i planted my trotter in the last second lol

A few weeks ago I came across a spider. ..massive big thing in the middle of the path...no joke. .I actually ran around it!!!

It was just after 6am. Is that a normal hour? :P

If I saw a massive spider I'd run the opposite direction!!

Murph_D

SamforMayo

This Fat Girl Runs wrote: »

It was just after 6am. Is that a normal hour? :P

If I saw a massive spider I'd run the opposite direction!!

No it's not a normal hour, unless you talk to Career move or Tom J. 6 a m is the time you look at the clock, say thank God it's not 7.30 and roll over.

Hannibal Smith

This Fat Girl Runs wrote: »

It was just after 6am. Is that a normal hour? :P

If I saw a massive spider I'd run the opposite direction!!

According to my 3 year old its the middle of the day

Maybe that's what I need. ..someone in a giant spider outfit chasing me....id storm passed everyone else

Emer911

Hannibal Smith wrote: »

According to my 3 year old its the middle of the day

Maybe that's what I need. ..someone in a giant spider outfit chasing me....id storm passed everyone else

something like this?

Hannibal Smith

Emer911 wrote: »

something like this?

Hahaa...im so bad I can't even click on the link

This Fat Girl Runs

Hannibal Smith wrote: »

Hahaa...im so bad I can't even click on the link

Same here!

RayCun

hth

Hannibal Smith

RayCun wrote: »

hth

Haahaa there goes my soup!! I feel a new running plan formulating that may involve a few hurdles and a defibrillator

Bassfish

Jogging in Phoenix park, stopped for water and Leo Varadkar jogged past with his earphones in singing away to himself.

Seanie_H

Cologne Marathon 2011... fella ran passed me wearing football boots, the type with blades. Didnt seem to be a charity effort, he just looked clueless. Full city run course, no off road. I thought 'I'll definitely see him again but I lost my legs early fair play to him.... I think.