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

Dennis Reynolds 2.0 wrote:

Can't count the number of track races, between high school and college it's a lot. 1 XC race, 20 or so road races.

You're exaggerating somewhat there, my friend. But you did indeed win that North Penn United way 5k. And your amazing winner time was 18:25.

1 xc race. 4 track races (and a relay).

I'm 17 and 3 of my track wins came when my small club which was predominantly for road and xc runners held a track meet. I won the 100m, 800m and mile, all in slower times than my pb by some margin (apart from the 100m, I was quite happy with that!). Somehow it didn't feel like winning though…

1 race. not really a race but a 5 k jog ;)

my first 5k in 18:16 OMG so slow

I think 3. One last year at 54. And I suck. Goes to show how watered down the talent has gotten over the years. Plus how many races there are now. Spreads out the talent.

Between 60 and 80 races. Smallest was with about 18 finishers (20k on the track in 1:03 something and the last placer was timed 29 seconds slower than me). Largest? Several thousands runners, one of the rock'n'roll series in the US. It is much easier for me to win races in my 30s, than when I was in my prime, due to severe reduction in the quality of the fields. Honestly, when I was able to crack 29 in 10k, I had seldom won, although I had placed very often in top 5. Nowadays, 30flat gets me a win in most races I enter (it also helps I am not a roadie anymore and don't train and race much of the year in the US).

Breaking a tape? Yes, quite a few times, but I never thought of keeping the tape. I had even tripped over a finish tape, since it did not tear and I got entangled in it.

Now that I think of it, I had won every race I could have, without using illegal substances (I am not implying that those I could have not beaten had used them, but I know my physical limits), except for one local, albeit very large, race. When I had the ability to win that one, I was living in the US and thought it was not worth to travel back home for just that race. Now I do not possess enough finishing speed to outkick the Kenyan roadies that enter this race every year. I would trade all my wins for just one in this race. It is akin to Boston marathon in my country. If you are not listed among the winners on the statute, you are not considered as a good runner among the peers.

The wins that seem inconsequential at the time, may turn out to be the most cherished over the time.

6 counting high school open and relay races.

One. It was a 5k that I ran in 21:55, lol. I easy run 10 miles at that pace now. Did finish second twice in 5k with far faster times. Just goes to show that for the typical runner wins depend more on who shows up than your own ability.

I didn't have a xc/track program in hs.

So, only road racing, about 30

I won the race to earn the most debilitating injury the fastest at my local 'box'.

I would estimate around 25-30 wins for me. I used to win 2 individual events in most dual meets back in HS, so that right there gives me 10+ easy wins. I have won 7 HMs in the last two years (there is 10 per year in the town that I live in) and probably around 10 5k races during the same stretch. PR is 16:09, but I haven't been over 16:30 in a couple of years. That usually gets the job done in my area.

One road race 5k in 16:20. Had to outkick a 45 year old dude, I was 20 at the time. He said "oh shit" as I passed him.

Probably 30 or so 800m high school races, the biggest being my conference meet, and sectional meet.

Never won a race in college, although I came close in an 800. Three of us crossed the finish line at basically the same time, i took 3rd. 154.24. The other dudes were 154.1

100+. Stopped even trying to keep track a few years back.

I have the dumb luck of living in a fairly rural place where running is common, but not commonly competitive at any sort of high level.

It's not to say there aren't races with anywhere from 200-2000 people and the top 5 in, say, a 5 miler are running @ 27 and change, it's just that for a good 10 year span, I've been the guy that can go 15:30-ish for 5k and @ 26 for 5 miles, etc. who happened to be the fastest local guy for a while.

Any time I ventured towards the city 100 miles away, I had a much tougher time winning, though I still racked a few up.

Right place, right time for me. I can tell you one thing, though, winning never gets old, and as I get older, I savor each one, since I'm racing less and there's only so many more that will come.

SEX BATMAN wrote:

Probably 30 or so 800m high school races, the biggest being my conference meet, and sectional meet.

..in college... i took 3rd. 154.24.

ok, now HS wins only count if you list the level of competition. 1A, 2A, 4A, etc, and how many A's was max in your state. And if your state was populous, as opposed to Wyoming or something.

I'd say in the 40-50 range? I don't recall losing many races senior year HS track before the state tournament. I usually ran 2-3 races per meet for a dual meet and 2 for an invitational. Probably 20 or so that year. I racked up a fair amount of wins my sophomore year of HS running the JV 400 along with doing very poorly in the 1600/3200 (before I discovered I was really an 800 runner).

I never won a race longer than 800, though, except for a JV XC hokum karum (relay). I'd say at least half of my relays (4x4, 4x8, DMR - I think I won a 4x2 once in jr high) I either anchored or ran first (weak competition or the 800 lead the DMR).

I enjoyed the relay wins better, but we also set a conference record my sr year in the 4x8 so that could be why. Admittedly, it was a very weak record, but it was fun to bust the chops of the team before us that won state in that event and would have smoked us.

40 to 50 in 6 years, 800 m to 10 miles.

About 50. In the summer in the Northeast, there can be six races in six adjacent towns on the same Saturday. The talent pool gets spread pretty thin.

8 wins, 10 counting relays. 2 1600s, 3 3200s, 3 5ks. All of my wins have been at pretty small races though. I'm also in an area with way more races than great runners. My last win I jogged to an 18:52 and 2nd place was over 22 minutes. not kidding.

I won the local inaugural women's half marathon a few years back. Were I not a dude that fact would be less eye catching. (We were training a group of women to run it. I used it as a workout to get ready for the Richmond Half that was a few weeks later, finished, then ran back onto the course to catch our group and run in with them as they came through. They told me I wouldn't show up in he results...definitely lists me as being first.)Recently, I've won a 10-mile trail run and a 5k. I won one collegiate meet during my XC time, 8 of 10 HS XC meets and nearly every 1600 and 3200 in my senior year, 6 out of 7 with the last five being consecutively of the UNC-W Homecoming 5k, Tri Span 10k, and the inaugural Flashback 10-Miler in Wilmington as well. Been on a couple of first place overnight relay teams that set course and/or division records as well.All ran from the front. I'm not a kicker so I've got to put it out there on the course and hope the endurance holds through.

Bad Wigins wrote:

Legit, organized race of any kind where entrants are seriously competing against the clock if not each other, with an entry fee or a result recorded somewhere public, as opposed to training, trials etc.

I mean this in a serious non-joking way...I have won so many that I lost count. Seriously. I started winning races right off the bat as a freshman in high school, and by the time I was a senior, I won everything up until post season track time. When you add in college and post college, it ends up being a lot of races. I have won fewer road races, because comparatively I haven't done as many, but even there, I could only guess at the number because I'm not sure how many. Lots.