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Subject: Bonehead Move of the Day
So last year I ran my first ever 5k. It was the Portage Methodist Church's Sacred Steps 5k. So I saw a flyer at the hardware store about a month ago for this year's race, and thought it would be nice to do the same course again to see how much I've improved in a year. Then I kinda forgot about it.

So about a week or two ago I remembered the race and typed in "Sacred steps 5k race portage" into google and the first hit said September 24 in the page description. I'm all set, no need to click on the page. So this morning I hop on my 3 speed Schwinn and ride the mile and a half to the start/ finish line of the race, and there's not a soul around. I should have clicked on that first hit to see that in Topeka Kansas (or somewhere equally remote from here) is having a Sacred Steps 5k today, but the Portage church had theirs on September 2nd.

Oh well, had a pleasant ride on the Schwinn instead. People are always more talkative on the trail when I ride that bike instead of the Trek. I really ought to ride it more often.

Anyone care to top this boneheaded move?

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2016-09-24 5:31 PM
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I'm not sure it tops that, but one year I showed up at a half-marathon I've run several times at Angkor Wat in Cambodia. I'd bought the air tickets, made the hotel booking, trained for several months, and flown to Siem Reap. Had even talked a couple of colleagues into signing up and they were with me as well. We went to packet pickup and looked at the big board to find our numbers.....and mine wasn't there. Figured there was some mix-up and went to registration to ask and....somehow I had forgotten to actually register for the race! Normally you can't register at packet pickup (they close the field) but I was lucky enough to kind of know the director (I had run most of the race with her the year before--she's a former Japanese Olympian who started the charity foundation that the race benefits) and she was nice enough to get me a number. That (forgetting to register) is pretty bone-headed.

Not my own bone-headedness but my dad once got the start time of a half-marathon wrong and we arrived, instead of the planned hour early, just as the race was starting. I was "in it to win it" so I jumped out of the car and shed outer layers as I sprinted toward the start line. Dad had to park the car and start about five minutes late! (can't remember if I won or not; with all that adrenaline in the system, it was a PB.)

Missing a turn at World Championships and riding an extra 10 km on the bike might also fit in that category, but I'm not sure it's exactly bone-headedness if you never saw the turnoff (along with about 100 other people), possibly due to poor signage and being passed at the time, and didn't know exactly where to look for it since your Garmin wasn't working. Maybe just really, really bad luck. (Thought I guess breaking a body part during a race would be worse.)
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