Bizarre, strange and unusual stories from the world of running
 | Runner with cardio mask causes post office shutdown - Word to the wise runners: Maybe it is not the smartest thing to jog in what looks like a gas mask and body armor, and then jam a package in a post office box. It could touch off what happened at the busy San Jose post office: a full-scale police response, complete with the bomb squad and a robot. |
 | Marathon runner rides bus to third place - A British runner was stripped of his third-place marathon medal when it was discovered that he got an "unfare" advantage from a tourist bus. Cairns, a police officer, was awarded the third-place medal after the runner's disqualification. |
 | Pregnant runner finishes marathon and delivers baby - Days from her due date, 27-year-old Amber Miller joined 45,000 other runners to participate in the "Bank of America Chicago Marathon" and then gave birth to a baby girl named June hours later. She said she never expected to finish the race. |
 | Running the Apple logo - Using two iPhones plus his legs to map the equivalent of a digital heart for Steve Jobs, a marathon runner from Tokyo, ran 13 miles in 2 hours with a specific route in mind: the Apple logo. |
 | Boston officials grant runner an automatic entry into the marathon - A Colorado Marathon runner who abandoned her qualifying bid to help save the life of another participant who turned out to be her father has been given an automatic entry into the Boston Marathon. |
 | Man arrested for running naked in marathon - A man was running naked during the "Flying Pig Marathon" and refused to stop when police told him to exit the race, so officers stopped him with a taser. |
 | Nike goes after man for ordering one pair of counterfeit shoes - Last year, a shipment of faux Nikes was stopped at the U.K. border, prompting the company to take legal action against all the individuals who had ordered the shoes. |
 | Bomb squad blows ravioli can at the Pittsburgh Marathon - Police said they are trying to determine whether someone intentionally placed a microwave oven containing a dish of ravioli near the Pittsburgh Marathon's finish lines to disrupt the race. |
 | Runner killed by a plane - A 38-year-old father of two was jogging and listening to his iPod when he was hit from behind and killed by a small plane making an emergency landing on a South Carolina beach. |
 | Running and twitting don't mix - James Coleman, a jogger, has become the first man in Britain to suffer a "twinjury", an injury sustained while using Twitter. He was "tweeting" to his followers on his Blackberry while jogging to work when he cracked his head on a heavy low-hanging branch. The force of the impact sent the dazed runner crashing to the pavement and left him with a badly bruised black eye. |
