The best I heard was this little memorial race I beat this guy that I had struggled to beat at all the previous year. He went out against another kid who was pretty good and they just smoked each other the first mile. I hung back and let them jockey back and forth for 1st. They died after mile 1 and I took over. After the race they handed out awards and gave $50 to the top male and female. Nobody knew about it before the race so I am thinking what a nice bonus. The guy comes up to me and said well if I knew they were giving out $50 I would have raced harder. I just walked away and never lost to him again that year.

Best comment at a race was a next door porta potty at a Sweet Corn Festival. "Corn, I don't remember eating corn."

"I'm still a little drunk from last night."

I've used it.

"I was really only here for a threshold run." (Said by someone at a 10k who started too fast and wound up walking the final half k.)

My husband told someone about a 10 miler I had just ran, where I ran well, but not my best time that I had raced a 2 miler the day before. The guy (who runs a little bit) replied, "That's it?" Clearly he had no clue about running.

My favorite is well I was running tempo really? I realized before the race I wasn't going to race it was to hot. What a joke that one was.