with Erika @ MCM Mama Runs,
Marcia @ Marcia’s Healthy Slice
and Patty @ My no-guilt life! 

This week’s topic is Race Mishaps

The more races you run, the more likely there will be mishaps.

That means I’ve  had quire a few.

If you read my blog regularly, you’ve probably heard all about these:

• There was the time that I thought it would be 60 degrees and sunny (like the day before the race) and it turned out to be 30 degrees and sleeting. Yes, I nearly froze to death.

• There was the time that we had a power failure so my alarm clock didn’t go off and I got up late.  I drove 90 mile like a crazy lady and the race started late due to a traffic jam.

• There was the time that I postponed going to a doctor about a sore foot because I was visiting my best friend from high school/college and running a race. It turned out that I had a stress fracture in my foot.

• Of course, there was the time that I broke my foot at the mile 1 water stop but finished the race anyway.

• And then there was the time when I waited 3  hours to run the 2nd half of a marathon relay and it got cancelled due to the heat when I was only at mile 4.

• There was the one mile race where I thought it started in the same place as the 5k.  It didn’t. So I had to sprint a mile to start and got there after it started (and still got an age group award.)

I could go on and on.  There were many rainy races, hot races, cold races, windy races, races too short, races too long, race where my chip was not recorded (and I would have gotten an age group award), race that had me in the wrong age group (and I would have gotten an award), etc etc etc.

Happy Running! What was your worst race mishap?