How many races have you [i]won[/i] - 1st place

About 100. I've been asked this before, and after some calculating, that's the number that I came up with.

I'm counting every HS and college dual meet, invites, both track and cross country, summer park district meets, turkey trots, road races, open cross country meets, etc. Pretty much anytime I lined up in an "official" race and crossed the finish line first was counted. Age group wins were NOT counted, only when I was the overall winner.

My senior year in HS I won 20 straight track races, so that was a good part of them. 6 wins were in road races.

Bad Wigins wrote:

[quote]SMJO wrote:

Do heats count?

Indoor sprints would be pushing it. How about >= 5 opponents and ideally >= 7.

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I meant like an all comers meet where a person seeds themselves according to ability in an event run in heats with no final. It's impossible to really know if you're in the right heat since people tend to be optimistic that they will run faster than they do.

8 local road races, all small potatoes, all slow.

I think the first organized race I won was the 600 yard run in 10th grade.

But that may not count for this.

I won my heat in the first 200m race I ran (11th grade), but didn't score points.

12th grade - won my first 400m race (overall) in a dual meet. Won the 200 that day, too.

I won the 100 in a dual meet later that year.

Won the 400 and 200 in some other dual/tri meets and won districts in the 400.

Won the 800 in a couple of dual meets, including the meet where I won that 100.

In college, won a 500m heat once. Won my 800m heat a few times.

I won a couple of 800's overall at invitationals and won an IC4A semifinal.

I had one 1500m win and it was a conference championship.

I won one XC 8K invitational (not against good schools).

After college I won a number of 1500m races (overall), a few mile races an one 3000m race.

I have won at least a dozen 5K road races and 4 or 5 10K races.

A lot of wins at all kinds of distances, but if not winning is a loss, then I have lost a lot more that I won.

SMJO wrote:

Bad Wigins wrote:

Indoor sprints would be pushing it. How about >= 5 opponents and ideally >= 7.

I meant like an all comers meet where a person seeds themselves according to ability in an event run in heats with no final. It's impossible to really know if you're in the right heat since people tend to be optimistic that they will run faster than they do.

the vast majority wrote:

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correct. I knew most of them would not reply or reply dishonestly, that's why I added the part about breaking the tape. It's easier to admit being a finish-tape virgin.

I got second in a non competitive one when I wuz 10

A heat is still a race though.

Twice, no tapes though. 1 turkey trot and a low-key summer road race.

over 1. why do you ask, op? is this for your psych class?

1 age group win. 1 second overall.

Bad Wigins wrote:

If it's in a high school meet, of course. Or running a road race in high school.

I never won in high school so I only have 3 wins that I remember despite running mostly 800.

If high school races count, including duel meets, I'd guess somewhere in the 20-25 range for a total.

I thought dueling was banned?

SMJO wrote:

I thought dueling was banned?

Dueling might be banned, but I've participated in many, many sword fights.

Bad Wigins wrote

correct. I knew most of them would not reply or reply dishonestly, that's why I added the part about breaking the tape. It's easier to admit being a finish-tape virgin.

Those of us who have won races have just had the misfortune of running high school meets where 4:50 wins the mile.

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probably more than 50.

Has anyone won the majority of races they've entered?

73.

Much easier to win races now than 30 years ago. I won a bunch of high school races but only one road race when I quit running at 19 because of injury.

Was able to start back up at 37. At 38 I decided to run a marathon, ran 3:11, and thought it was so easy I signed up for another one 5 weeks later. It was small with about 100 people and I won it. The following winter I won a 50k that had about 50 people run.

The last few years I won races at 5k, 10k, half marathon, and a few trail races. The largest race probably had a couple hundred runners. The smallest had 6.

I won a 10k 3 years in a row running in the 39s until last year when I was injured and could only run 42+.

When I was 39 and running 17 for 5k and 35 for 10k I couldn't win a race though I had a few seconds. When I was in my mid 40s, I was running 18:30 and 39 and won a bunch of races.

My WORST overall place was 106 in a race of 7,000 finishers.

pewow wrote:

Those of us who have won races have just had the misfortune of running high school meets where 4:50 wins the mile.

Yes, I forgot there are little schools. I went to a big school where winning a dual required beating the 1:55 guy on my own team.