What was your best moment in a race?

Good for you. Race aggressively!

Yes, just have to pace behind the trio who, 1973 Oct. BC, Canada X-C at Brocton Oval, Stanley Park, Vancouver, were impeding my wanting to pass last few miles - finiah on track, sped by them on the outside last 200 m and later remarked to one of them, "Too bad finish was on a wider area, hey! I gained three places!!" They were on a collegiate team up from the States.

Hopefully your racing becomes more about actual racing in the future.

Last year we had a dual meet on some really tiny trail, and during the last 1.5 mi of the race it started to thin out. I was with two other guys, both of them opponents, and there was a split second where the trail widened. One of them said "go," they fired up past me and formed a little wall. Then they started talking "don't move, keep it tight" on this tiny little single track trail. It was so dumb and slow. I got so fed up that I just literally rammed right into their backs and broke them up.

The winner of our race last weekend was running the starting sprint and there was a sharp downhill then flattened out again, and he jumped into the air down the hill, clicked his heels, and continued at his sub 4:50 pace with apparent ease. It was pretty amusing

My best moment was when I ran the 3200 (I am a 2/4 guy) and where I am from pretty much everyone was sprinters so there is about 5 people in the race. At the start everyone is like lets walk. We literally run the first curve and start walking. One of the guys was waving to the crowd on the other side. We ran the curve again and started getting the crowd turnt. We were nae nae ing and did some yeet. Just having fun. Then the guy running the meet tried to kick us off and we all kind of dodged them and just started goofing for the rest of the time. No one finished the race except for one skinny white guy.

When I caught her.

In high school I was running the anchor of the DMR. Two other local schools had what most of my teammates felt was an insurmountable lead. My mile PR was around 4:35 at the time.

The guy who had run the lead off said, "Just do what you can," looking resigned to defeat. I said, in the most arrogant possible manner, "Don't even worry about it. I've got it in the bag."

I took the baton, went out in 2:09, and caught the other two runners with 700 to go. My coach was at the turn at the 1000 meter mark and said, "Phone it in, you have another race today." I relaxed, ran 4:20, won the race, and it didn't even hurt, as is often the case with huge PRs.

Watching Jenny SImpson win was mine to watch, winning the conference title is mine actual

Caught the leader in a race about 300 meters from the finish, and he was so demoralized by my finishing speed that he finished 15 seconds back.

I was in a JO cross country meet as a kid, and this little guy was swerving around trying to keep me from passing for 15 seconds straight. I shoved him with both hands and said "move" he stumbled and at that moment I finally felt like a real man.

Brodellero wrote:

I was in a JO cross country meet as a kid, and this little guy was swerving around trying to keep me from passing for 15 seconds straight. I shoved him with both hands and said "move" he stumbled and at that moment I finally felt like a real man.

Emotions are not always indicators of the truth