I might beat you wrote:
I go to one of the highschools in the dublin/worthington area and i can run sub 16 so I might show up to beat you
This back fired on OP, now this will be a stacked race with every 15-17 minute 5k runner in the area showing up.
Wow, just stumbled across this thread. I'm from Delaware and will be headed home after I graduate this weekend. I'm planning on building my base up over the summer but would love to hop in some local races. I ran at a D1 school but haven't run any faster than 14:35.
I might beat you wrote:
I go to one of the highschools in the dublin/worthington area and i can run sub 16 so I might show up to beat you
You're on sport.
... Haha. You'd show me up with a sub 16.
Gary Smith two questions wrote:
Thanks for the honest response.
It seems like there is a 5k every week in Cbus.
1) The Worthington one sounds harder--more hills in that area, or am I wrong?
2) What are your thoughts on Emerald City as well? Looks boring but it's the only big 1/2 in Cbus that summer.
Definitely more hills in the Worthington area (home of the infamous 'Dead Poets' training route with a brutal hill combo).
Emerald City is a good race (all M3S races are quality). Like you said, not too many to choose from in the Columbus area in the summer. Most people use the Emerald 1/4 as a warm up for the Columbus 13.1 or the Emerald 13.1 as a warm up for the Columbus 26.2.
So, this race is tomorrow. How many people do we have to load this race now solely because of this thread and wanting to send OP home devastated? Expecting finish time to drop from 21 low 15s.
Any runners in Cbus? wrote:
Has anyone here won a 5k without much effort?
Yes, I have mixed feelings about it. Obviously, you sign up for a race, your competitive nature kicks in and you want to win. But I've run a race where I thought there were going to be some good runners, and it turned out that there wasn't. I took off, some people went with me, but after a mile I was by myself. Wound up pulling up and cruising, and still won by three minutes. I didn't like the feeling of being the only "serious" person out there, like there's no pride in beating up on someone well under your weight class. Plus I didn't like that I saw my name in a couple online publications, next to honestly a pretty pedestrian winning time, beating a bunch of casual runners. I could have kept the gas on, but that makes it worse, like other people see that and it looks like some regular guy inserting himself into the special olympics so he can finally win something. Look at race results and every now and then you see that person running a 17 in a small event and smashing everyone, but it's like, join a real competition dude.
Hey, OP. I know this may sound harsh, but a 21-minute 5k runner does not deserve to win any race. Are you really going to feel any kind of gratification breaking the tape at 6:45 mile pace?
Why don't you take the higher road and enter some races where you know you'll get smoked? It'll push you to run a faster time.