Mine was when my shoe lace came untied and back before ipods when we had the headphones over your head and bulky radio device things that ran on batteries. Well anyway I was running and all of a sudden it was like time was going slow the music seemed to stop and I blacked out literally don't know what happened and it felt like a few seconds later I slammed into the ground and just jolted back to awareness and was like WTF! To this day I honestly don't know what happened just like a blackout hit the ground and realized my knees were cut up really back but not enough to stop running. This has only happened one time in my entire life so I really can't tell what to do.

One day I was running with my ipod, something that I usually don't do. Someone had left a dumpster in the middle of the sidewalk with maybe 2 feet of space between it and the building. I figured I could easily pass through that narrow gap, which I did. However, the wire from my headphones got snagged on the dumpster and next thing I knew my headphones are dangling from the dumpster and my momentum is killed. I think I let a few expletives fly and sure enough some people came walking around the corner just at that time.

Also, I tripped and fell in the first 1/4 mile of an 8-mile run. Naturally there were two people about 10 feet away asking if I was okay. I brushed myself off and quickly ran off to finish my run.

While running along the grassy shoulder of a busy street, at rush hour, I was looking behind me to try to find a gap in the traffic to cross the street. I turned my head back just in time to run my face into the grounding wire from a telephone pole. Those things are tight! It decked me--my legs and body flew out in front of me, and I landed on my back in the grass.

The worst thing was, I had a red stripe running diagonally across my face for the next 24 hours or so. Yeesh.

(BTW, walking in a marathon isn't embarrassing -- or else I've embarrassed myself while qualifying for Boston a few times...!)

quote:<HR>Originally posted by cakeeater1031:
. . . all of a sudden it was like time was going slow the music seemed to stop and I blacked out literally don't know what happened and it felt like a few seconds later I slammed into the ground and just jolted back to awareness and was like WTF! To this day I honestly don't know what happened . . . .<HR>

Sounds like a classic X-File type abduction moment.
Weeeeeird.

My embarrassing running moments go back to my days in high school track and cross country:

One day I forgot my sports bra and had to run with my normal bra. Luckily there were no chafing issues but at the end of my run I lifted up my shirt to wipe the sweat off my face (forgetting I was wearing what would be considered a lingerie bra) and ended up flashing a bus full of the boys soccer team who then proceeded to cheer and whistle out the window.

Also at a track meet I had to run two events back to back and started puking from running so hard after the first event. I could hear my dad's voice coming across the field saying "Race now! Puke later!" I ran from the finish line to the the start of the next event puking to the side while everyone including cute boys looked at me in disgust.

My recent embarrassing moment actually happened on my bike:

I just got clipless pedals and wanted to try them out around the neighborhood before I went on any big rides. I got about a few yards away from my garage before I toppled over in front of a bunch of kids on their bikes. One of the little girls said "It really easy to learn how to ride a bike" and suggested training wheels. All I could do was laugh. She was so cute. haha!