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Catalin Bond
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I'm planning on running home from work tonight, realised I've forgotten by garmin, my headphones and my running bag to carry home the stuff I need. Still, isn't as bad as the time I forgot my trousers and went for a run in jeans!
Anyone got any good stories to make me feel like I'm not the only forgetful one!
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haha can't wait to follow the replies to this thread! I will have a think but can't remember any running related mishaps off the top of my head.
on the way to essex20, was half way there and realised I forgot my watch and running no.
turned round in a huff (luckily was in good time) got home, got the watch and no.
on my way again, and was going along at a steady speed then the car exploded in a cloud of blue smoke and bits of metal falling out the bottom.
wouldnt be so bad but I'm a car mechanic and had no warning what so ever!!
as you could imagine, no race and was sitting by the side of the road in racing gear whilst lots past smiling!
I did fight my way through Xmas shopping traffic one snowy day to get a run in on the tready at the gym. Got there and realised I'd forgotten my shorts. So I had to nip to the supermarket across the way. They only had a baggy pair with Homer Sinpson on. Had to make do with them and they went in the charity bag straight after the wash. Now I'd change before I went. Easier.
Not running. But freshers week at Uni and I go for the football team trials... literally scores and scores of lads trying to get noticed. I go to my bag for my stuff. No socks... but no way are we going to play without shinpads.
I've got loads of bandages for my vulnerable ankles... so use them strap my shin pads to my legs. Ridiculous.
But I got picked. And it's not easy as a defender to stand out in these mass trials... but at least every time I got the ball, or made a tackle, they remembered the idiot who looked like an Egyptian mummy!
I've pretty much forgotten every piece of clothing at least once. I try to have a complete set in my car just in case but i always forget when i take something out of it. I've got for runs in summer in full winter leggings and vice versa. Most embarassing was turning up to a run with work colleagues and forgetting my tshirt... so I ran in my normal shirt. They gave me some weird looks!
A bit dull... but a few weeks before the Chester marathon, I did a 10 mile run in trainers, socks, shorts... and the work shirt that I'd had on all day.
Edit... I did take my tie off.
I forget my sweatbands 4/5 times I go running. And of course, I don;t notice until I go to rub my brow and I swear EVERY time as soon as I realise.
E-I-O etc. Your story is epic compared to Mattywarrs
Sorry, didn't realise every post needed to be a literary masterpiece...
You can't win em all my little chipmunk. Your gym bunny post was good
I didn't coin the term, I was referencing a previous post
Back to bottom of the class for me!
mattywarr... what is he good for?...absolutely nothing
i have the opposite problem. i usually manage to forget my work clothes when I cycle to work.
so I get showered and ready only to realise I don't have a shirt with me or that I forgot trousers.
i've changed back into cycling stuff on a couple of occasions and headed out to wait for M&S to open to buy something suitable to wear.
running to work hasn't been such a problem as I usually prepare in advance so I don't have to carry anything and leave clothes at work.
I've had to dry myself on my gym kit more than once when I've forgotten a towel
Makes me realise it's so much easier to run after I get home...
last year I went for a run in windsor Great park. It was only when I got to the car park and got out of car that I realised that I hadn't put my shorts on.
I think we've all done the forgotten shorts bit. As a variation, I ran into work a few weeks ago with my 'normal' clothes in my knapsack - I'd forgotten to pack my underpants, of course, so spent the day commando. It felt like... freedom!
Secretly going commando at work? You kinky devil!
Because of course I was going to copy everyone into an email proclaiming the fact, scream...
But I can tell you're somehow turned on by this information.
Wilkie - i've forgotten my towel on many an occasion as well. It's the one thing that I always seem to forget and end up using the paper towels or sweaty gym clothes.
Peter... now tell us about your commando experience. Will you be repeating it anytime soon?
Well, Emmy, maybe I will. Maybe I just will, since you're asking nicely. One of the problems, of course, is potential friction injuries...
Which all of course reminds me of similarly running into work, discovering at shower time that I'd forgotten to pack any sort of shirt, and nipping out to Primark in my horrible sweaty top to buy a tshirt for about £2. Yes, I've forgotten my towel on numerous occasions - one doesn't feel properly washed after drying oneself with a sweaty running top.
Peter - you may need to ensure that you lather yourself with enough vaseline/bodyglide to avoid any such injuries from occuring.
When i used to cycle to work the one thing that I always used to forget was socks or tights. I ended up keeping a stash of them in my draw at work.
And that reminds me of an old workplace of mine in which notices appeared on the doors of the loos reminding people not to jam down them things such as hand tissues or pairs of tights! Who would do the latter? And why did they put that on the men's loos too?
Maybe some of your work colleagues were getting frisky at lunch? or maybe they were wearing womens underwear to work to make themselves feel special?
Yeah, it does make you feel special... er...oops
I get the feeling that not wearing pants was the kinkiest thing Peter ever did
Ah, no reply - probably for the best eh Peter?