what is your best example of post-race-brain? (formerly new transfer policy... oops)

[afnaechiquita]

rather than have this sit here... empty.. full of misinformation what is your best example of post-race-brain, silly things you've done after a race? mine is this post, clearly.

someone mentioned this on one of the FB groups and i couldn't believe it, but researched it and it's true. there's now a transfer policy. from the PHM registration page:

Transfer Policy

Entry fees for the 2014 Disney Princess Half Marathon Weekend events are non-refundable.
If you are currently registered for the 2014 Disneys Princess Half Marathon Weekend, you may transfer your registration to one of the other races, subject to availability, on or before December 1, 2013.
A transfer fee will be charged PER TRANSFER.
Transfers are not allowed for the Disney Family Fun Run 5K or runDisney Kids Races events.
All races are non-transferable from participant to participant
Dates, times and prices subject to change.
All races are subject to capacity limits and may close at any time.
Download the 2014 Disney Princess Half Marathon Transfer Form

Dates, times and prices subject to change. All races are subject to capacity limits and may close at any time.

wonder what got them to change??

edit: oh wait, this is the deferral policy. my bad...

 

[bumbershoot]

rather than have this sit here... empty.. full of misinformation what is your best example of post-race-brain, silly things you've done after a race? mine is this post, clearly.

I didn't really DO anything after TOT, but I sure couldn't speak correctly! I kept fading off, not getting complete sentences out, and just sort of drifting off into space. And then I let us stay until the end of the party, which was absolutely ridiculous.

Gotta learn to get more food in the belly FASTER! (doing the Race Retreat for the January Half as an attempt to do just that)

 

[afnaechiquita]

I didn't really DO anything after TOT, but I sure couldn't speak correctly! I kept fading off, not getting complete sentences out, and just sort of drifting off into space. And then I let us stay until the end of the party, which was absolutely ridiculous.

Gotta learn to get more food in the belly FASTER! (doing the Race Retreat for the January Half as an attempt to do just that)

ohhhh... not to be a creeps, but i usually like reading your TRs so i'm glad to see you've done a race so i can read that one!

and yes, food is so necessary. my race this morning didn't have anything at the finish, you had to get your medal+goody bag first, then wait in a forever long line for food and water.

 

[bumbershoot]

Aw, thanks! Though that "usually" has me wondering, LOL. Totally kidding. I'll take "usually".

Ew, forever-long lines for food/water are bad. At TOT I just didn't have the coordination to eat anything from the box-o-food they gave while carrying my water bottle (I have to carry water with me), the water and powerade they gave me, the banana and, of course, the food box. I just couldn't do it! (I think I did somehow eat the banana though) So I had to wait until I had met up with the family, but by then my stomach had started to rebel against food. I did down some chocolate (almond) milk, then went and changed (family had my clothes), and then TRIED to eat, but the window had passed and I was close to being toast.

 

[jmasgat]

After the 2011 Boston Marathon, I told my husband "Sure, I can walk 3 miles across the Charles River into Cambridge to get to the car". I mean, a little cool down walk is good, but I was ready to be carried at the end!

 

[dumbo_buddy]

After the 2011 Boston Marathon, I told my husband "Sure, I can walk 3 miles across the Charles River into Cambridge to get to the car". I mean, a little cool down walk is good, but I was ready to be carried at the end!

I did something similar last Sunday! My husband called me after the marathon and asked if he should pick me up. I was on the wrong side of Central Park from where he was and I just felt like I would die if I stopped and waited for him. So I walked two miles after the race uptown and then all the way across the park over to York Ave to me meet my husband and the boys. It was dark by then and windy and freezing. My husband had to hoist me into the car. "Cool down" is an excellent euphemism for what I did. A little walk is good but don't get carried away!

 

[gsu1988]

I have not done anything too strange or weird but my dad did. After his first half marathon a few years ago we got back to the hotel and he thought he was paralyzed and could not get out of the car. NOPE! He just forgot to unbuckle the seat belt.

 

[PrincessV]

Wandering through the grocery store, unable to remember just what anyone in my house eats, is a common occurrence after every long run.

 

[cewait]

Mine is more of a post race story than a dumb brained story.

I just finished the 2008 marathon and was feeling the race. As we walked from the family reunion area to the car, I started feeling a little light headed. We were about halfway between the med tent and car and both had water and food. I elected to head to the car. Poor Mary noticed that I was touching cars as we made our way to the car but held her tongue, I think she was looking around to see if there was help if needed. This is a condition I have on occasion where my vessels remain dilated for an extended period of time – doc’s not worried, neither am I; actually Doc thinks it a good thing to help start recovery.

We had an SUV that year, so I popped the back open and was going to sit for a couple minutes; however, my hip flexors had a different idea. Both side fired off in cramps as soon as I sat and tension was released. They were visually throbbing as I looked down. One really hurt and I grabbed it, curled up and moaned. Mary could not hold it any longer and asked loudly, “Are you having a heart attack?” Well, we had all the help we really did not need.

It was comforting to see that folks were hobbling up to help.

 

[afnaechiquita]

I have not done anything too strange or weird but my dad did. After his first half marathon a few years ago we got back to the hotel and he thought he was paralyzed and could not get out of the car. NOPE! He just forgot to unbuckle the seat belt.

oh jeez... i can see myself doing that.

Mine is more of a post race story than a dumb brained story.

I just finished the 2008 marathon and was feeling the race. As we walked from the family reunion area to the car, I started feeling a little light headed. We were about halfway between the med tent and car and both had water and food. I elected to head to the car. Poor Mary noticed that I was touching cars as we made our way to the car but held her tongue, I think she was looking around to see if there was help if needed. This is a condition I have on occasion where my vessels remain dilated for an extended period of time – doc’s not worried, neither am I; actually Doc thinks it a good thing to help start recovery.

We had an SUV that year, so I popped the back open and was going to sit for a couple minutes; however, my hip flexors had a different idea. Both side fired off in cramps as soon as I sat and tension was released. They were visually throbbing as I looked down. One really hurt and I grabbed it, curled up and moaned. Mary could not hold it any longer and asked loudly, “Are you having a heart attack?” Well, we had all the help we really did not need.

It was comforting to see that folks were hobbling up to help.

!! yikes. hey, maybe them hobbling over to unnecessarily help you also helped THEM, by forcing them to hobble a little faster!

 

[Bookwood]

not fuzzy brain but more along the lines of coaches problem, after CMM one year. I was walking through the post race area looking for my daughters, and friends. I took a step up onto a curb and both calf's cramped up so bad I couldn't move. I stood there about 4 minutes looking at my daughter and laughing (sort of) because I couldn't walk the 10 feet to get to her. (she was outside the runners area and fenced away from me) I finally got one leg to move to stretch out first one calf and then the other.

 

[IamTrike]

After OBX marathon my feet were aching and I really just wanted to put my feet in the Icy cold sound. I meandered over to a dock waddled down the stairs and plopped my feet in the water. Eventually my family came and found me and I waddled back up to them. It was at that point that I noticed the rather large "caution no bathing, water polluted" sign.

 

[OldSlowGoofyGuy]

2013 Goofy, after the marathon:
DW: What hurts?
Me: My Achilles, my quad, my big toe, my little toe, my ankle...
DW: Which hurts the WORST?
Me (thinking for a second): ALL of them! (starts crying like a baby)
Me: But then I discover that the Mickey stickers on my shoes survived 39.3 miles, I'm laughing again!

It was a complete meltdown and recovery in 20 seconds.

 

[StarGirl11]

This isn't so much a dumb brain race story as a dumb brain run story. From today actually.

So long story short today was supposed to be a 3 mile run. It turned into a 4 mile run. Why? Because I didn't realize that Kensington Gardens closed at dusk and if you are in the Gardens you literally get locked in for the night. Now let me tell you traversing Hyde Park at night is not as easy as it sounds because apparently most of it closes. Me not being local did not know this. And did not know that half of the park was called Kensington Gardens. So when I heard something go by 'saying the gardens are closing shortly' I thought it was talking about a small portion of the park. Not 90 percent of the park. And kept on running when I should have just turned around and ran the park's perimeter.

All I got to say is thank god for the really nice German tourists who also got locked in with me. Because I certainly wouldn't have had the upper arm strength to get my legs up on the gate footholds to get out.

On the bright side I wasn't the only runner who made that mistake I saw another runner with a camelback on looking for a way out now long before I finally hopped the gate.

I probably have a few more stories but this is all I can think of right now since this just happened.

 

[Dug720]

Mine isn't post-race brain (though I was a wreck after the 2012 Broad Street Run as I took an overnight bus to Philly, ran, then had cheesefries and a beer for my meal after, then proceeded to decide to walk to the Liberty Bell before my bus back to NYC and discover it was too far. Nearly collapsed in a 7-Eleven I mercifully found to get Gatorade and downed one bottle before getting from the cooler to the counter with that and another bottle. Never again.) Mine is race brain.

In October, I was running the ING Hartford Half Marathon, and declaring I'd been lied to by a friend who told me it was mostly flat. I wasn't sure exactly what time I crossed the start line, but at Mile 7, I saw the time and tried to do some mental math, approximating when I'd crossed only to get all joyful that "Oh, I can do 4 miles in an hour!! I might PR this thing!!" Only to come to the sad realization that I had not 4 but 6 more miles to go when I did that calculation. No more math on the run for me.

 

[bumbershoot]

No more math on the run for me.

I can barely add 1 and 1 even 10 minutes into running. It's crazy. I think it's one reason I signed up for the pace team thing with clif so I can get a pace cheat sheet thing lol.

 

[afnaechiquita]

In October, I was running the ING Hartford Half Marathon, and declaring I'd been lied to by a friend who told me it was mostly flat. I wasn't sure exactly what time I crossed the start line, but at Mile 7, I saw the time and tried to do some mental math, approximating when I'd crossed only to get all joyful that "Oh, I can do 4 miles in an hour!! I might PR this thing!!" Only to come to the sad realization that I had not 4 but 6 more miles to go when I did that calculation. No more math on the run for me.

haha, i did this last week on my 6.5 mile training run. for some reason, i chose to do it on the 1100 meter track (making nine laps + 500 meters) in the park by my house. between laps 6 and 7 i lost track of my laps and how many meters made X# miles, and thought i only had a lap left. somehow i realized i was only on lap six and still had three to go. i need to start running with a sharpie when i do long runs there so i don't lose track!

 

[RnbwSktles]

During my 18 mile training run this Saturday, I completely forgot how to open my GU chomps. It was even the 2nd package of the run, so I had already opened one successfully an hour and half before that.

I somehow forgot that they tear from the side and I kept trying to tear it from the top. I was getting really frustrated!

 

[FFigawi]

During my 18 mile training run this Saturday, I completely forgot how to open my GU chomps. It was even the 2nd package of the run, so I had already opened one successfully an hour and half before that. I somehow forgot that they tear from the side and I kept trying to tear it from the top. I was getting really frustrated!

One tip for Sport Beans and other fuel that comes in a package you need to tear & then open in two different places: rip open the top before the race starts. This way you'll only have to open the ziplock portion during the race instead of fumbling around trying to tear the package open.

 

[Dug720]

One tip for Sport Beans and other fuel that comes in a package you need to tear & then open in two different places: rip open the top before the race starts. This way you'll only have to open the ziplock portion during the race instead of fumbling around trying to tear the package open.

Also, if the packages are anything like my honey stinger chews, opening them a little before helps me actually get them into my belt. When the package is closed and has excess air, I'm afraid it's going to pop while I'm putting it in.