I just schooled some kids at the local 1K race

Why you keep trolling bro?

How old is this kid? Would be pretty sad if he’s like, six, and you only beat him by 5 seconds.

LoneStarXC wrote:

How old is this kid? Would be pretty sad if he’s like, six, and you only beat him by 5 seconds.

He was about 10 and it was a tactical race. I would say 5 seconds over the last 400 is pretty good considering I eased up a lot to celebrate.

Did you drop a Gobble Gobble MFer on the kid?

Eh. 2/10

Excellent work. Next time, throw in a little "Pure Hate" to make the victory sweeter. No matter the age, you must vanquish and humiliate your opponent to make them want to run harder next time, and to separate the men from the boys.

M.A.G.A.

Trolo wrote:

Eh. 2/10

no, better than that, because despite being obvious, it was damn funny.

OP, you wearin' trainers in this race? Did anyone after the race tell you looked relaxed out there?

Nice job. Sometimes little kids need to be in put in their place.

Did he say that he was going to train his butt off so that next year he would pound you into the ground?

You should have gone full douche , tiger woods fist pumps and a couple of "Boom Baby" in his face. Walk by the parents and say "I eat ball sacks for breakfast"

Obviously this is fake, but it reminds me of when I ran a 1k road race in Manila. There was like a 1k,5k,half marathon or something like that. Being a MD guy, I wasn't going to pass up the rare opportunity to run a road 1000, even though it started at about 430am.

First, it should be noted that there is even less starting line etiquette in PI than in most local 5k type races in the US. This was a big event, but the front row was crammed with kids and slow joggers. I wish I had a picture of the start, it would have been good for a laugh. Although, it wasn't like there were any fast people stuck behind them. All the good people must have signed up for the longer races.

Well, someone seemed to think it was a good idea to start the 1k after the longer races started. The first 100m or so was clear, but then we took a hard right turn and ended up in the middle of the 5k or 10k or whatever it was. The course is pretty crowded, and I'm running (or at least trying to) fairly fast. The 1k had its own pace bike, which can't keep up with me because it is harder to weave through the crowd on a bike than on foot.

I don't know where the course goes and the bike is still behind me. After maybe 600m of this, the pacer yells at me from behind to make a left, and then we're suddenly on clear, open road. I look at my watch, and estimate I've got maybe 200m to go, although I can't see a finish line. I'm getting pretty tired and decide to slow down, since I can't even see anyone behind me when I look back. The course ends up being about 1250m, and I won by at least 30 seconds. It was all sort of embarrassing honestly.

Sounds like that kid was a total jerk. He probably doesn’t even have a wife or kids.

It's pretty common around here to have "1 mile kid's runs" as part of a 5k/10k/HM. It sucks because I would actually love to race a hard road mile, but very hard to find a real one.

thinking of kids running in races where the grown ups would rather they were not, reminds me of a certain true story.

the Southern Counties is the southern third of England. round these here parts, the Southern Counties X-Country Championship is a big deal, it's a cross between Footlocker and Nationals, but with more mud. in 1970, Dave Bedford, still at school, turned up at Hampstead Heath one Saturday morning and won the Southern Junior X-C Championship by a country mile, then he came back in the afternoon and won the senior title too.

cheers.

Sasha Gollish? Is that you?

The kid wasn't expecting to be beaten by a 49 year old.

Possibly the best part of the story is that you say you got elbowed out of the way by a 10 year old. This would be so terribly embarrassing if true.

Cottonshirt wrote:

thinking of kids running in races where the grown ups would rather they were not, reminds me of a certain true story.

the Southern Counties is the southern third of England. round these here parts, the Southern Counties X-Country Championship is a big deal, it's a cross between Footlocker and Nationals, but with more mud. in 1970, Dave Bedford, still at school, turned up at Hampstead Heath one Saturday morning and won the Southern Junior X-C Championship by a country mile, then he came back in the afternoon and won the senior title too.

cheers.

Legend has it there was actually only 45 mins between the races. (‘The Art of Running Faster’ - Julian Goater)