Running Puns

#1 Runners never eat a full meal before the race because they are supposed to fast.

#2 The only type of meal that runners eat before a big race to be at their peak powers is fast food.

#3 Even after the heart surgery, the marathon runner set the pace for this marathon. Guess this is why he had a pacemaker.

#4 All the marathon runners were disappointed that the race had been cancelled- another run bites the dust.

#5 During the marathon, the Swedish runner couldn’t complete the race because he stopped just before the Finnish line.

#6 I don’t particularly appreciate running marathons because it gives me the runs.

#7 Long-distance runners usually are good students because their education pays off in the long run.

#8 One should never train for sprints. That way, athletes would only win in the short run.

#9 I wanted to tell you one of my running jokes, but it somehow ran away.

#10 Two cowardly sprinters got into a fight after the marathon. I heard it was a hit-and-run.

#11 Penguins have a reputation for emerging as winners in marathons because they peng-win.

#12 Sir Paul McCartney was stopped from running a marathon once. He got banned on the run.

#13 The cow surprised everyone at the farm by running so fast. He really knows how to use his calf muscles.

#14 Pigs can never run marathons due to always pulling their hamstrings.

#15 Did you hear about the gardener who lost his race? Apparently, he took the wrong root.

#16 I forgot the next pun. Do you have anything to jog my memory?

#17 Did you see the fishmonger that completed the race? He came in last place, his heart and sole weren’t in it.

#18 The snowman had to give up running because he couldn’t warm up.

#19 The DJ got disqualified from the 800m race because he kept changing tracks.

#20 I love doing LSD on my runs – “Low, Slow, Distance”.

#21 My dentist is a good runner because he knows his drills.

#22 Why did the lawyer with a torn ACL win the marathon? Because he had the power of a torn knee.

#23 Papers and pens will never win races because they are, in fact, stationary.

#24 When all the numbers came together for a race, the number 1 emerged victorious. This is because he one.

#25 In the race of vegetables and fruits, the lemon couldn’t win the sprint because it ran out of juice.

#26 After the two brothers reached the finish line, they fist-bumped. Guess we could say that, in a way, the finish line was the punchline.

#27 The marathon runner was detained in the middle of the marathon by the police because he was resisting a rest.

#28 There have been efforts to have a marathon in Antarctica. The winners will win the medal of nowhere.

#29 When the couch won the marathon, his other couch friends were shocked because they hadn’t realised before that he could run sofa!

#30 The sprinter finished the race first despite having a late start because he was running a delay.

#31 I’ve got a gait feeling that I may win today. 

#32 She always wins the race. I guess it runs in her genes.