Slowest times you've seen at a college track meet?

8min girls mile

I thought 2:32 was the worst possible 800m. This guy was D3. Seriously, quit. Competition isnt for you.

49.XX on a 4x400 at the D1 champs last year for Georgia, not the slowest but terrible for division 1.

If you are talking ALL colleges you need to lower the bar. Some, or many, provide zero or near zero scholarship money and are basically a traveling club team.

Alan

53:50 for the womens 10k. We had to watch the entire race.

It's not college but the World XC's in Boston. I think it was 92, it snowed. the guys from India & Fiji looked like their bodies went into shock. I really felt sorry for them but had to respect the fact that they did not quit.

There was a girl from the local college who ran well over 8 minutes in the mile, she might have had times in the 9's.

Most of my track meets in college were D1 only, but I still saw some girls race 6 minute miles and 21+ 5ks. Cross country might've even been worse because the meets had a lot more D3, I can distinctly remember watching some women run over 30 minutes for the 5k at VCP.

I know this is different to what the thread's asking but I've seen people at local fun runs take 70+ minutes for 5K. Always thought it was disrespectful to volunteers who took time out of their day to organise the event then they had to wait an extra half an hour for someone to crawl around the course.

Have done multiple 4-lap 5K's where a few of us have lapped people 3 times! Why even attend the 'fun-run' I always wondered. Surely just go for a walk instead?

I've seen a 53 second 100m dash in DIII.

But of course it was injury related.

The slowest I have seen is about 4:30 in the mile and 15 minutes for 5k.

I think slower runner should be allowed to run at collegiate track meets.-- but maybe have a JV section of the meet or have a separate JV meet just like in highschool. Runner dropout rates after highschool are incredible and this is one way to keep the overall post-HS participation UP.

The slow people you all are ridiculing are the people that continue running into their 40s, 50s and keep the sport afloat by buying flotrack subscriptions, the stuff that Letsrun markets.

Elite runners often quit and wave goodbye to the sport (like Chris Lukeciz). So before we are quick to deride, you should know they are a huge part of the sport.

Not college but HS - saw a boy get lapped in the 800...

ImportKenyan wrote:

I think slower runner should be allowed to run at collegiate track meets.-- but maybe have a JV section of the meet or have a separate JV meet just like in highschool. Runner dropout rates after highschool are incredible and this is one way to keep the overall post-HS participation UP.

The slow people you all are ridiculing are the people that continue running into their 40s, 50s and keep the sport afloat by buying flotrack subscriptions, the stuff that Letsrun markets.

Elite runners often quit and wave goodbye to the sport (like Chris Lukeciz). So before we are quick to deride, you should know they are a huge part of the sport.

^This; don't be elitist. Not a good look.

32s 100m at a national meet. He pulled a hamstring but limped to the finish.

British Guy wrote:

I know this is different to what the thread's asking but I've seen people at local fun runs take 70+ minutes for 5K.

WTF!? How is that possible?

carliee wrote:

British Guy wrote:

I know this is different to what the thread's asking but I've seen people at local fun runs take 70+ minutes for 5K.

WTF!? How is that possible?

There's a very popular weekly 5K called a Parkrun. (Well there normally is but it's on a hiatus that just passed the 1 year mark for obvious reasons). They are free to enter and pretty much anyone can just show up and 'run'. They're a great opportunity to do a tempo run, as a time trial, or if you enter one of the biggest ones you can get a few sub-15 guys to provide competition. But there's always some very out-of-shape people who will jog-walk-jog around, and ocassionally people just walk the whole way. It's standard for last place to take 50+ minutes, but I've definitely seen 70+ happen a few times.

I know this is hard to believe but if you check out the Parkrun website and pick out pretty much any results page you'll see what I'm talking about.

7:29 mile by a guy:

https://www.tfrrs.org/results/53258/3335767/Ben_Brown_Invite/Men_1_Mile_Run_B/

Haven't watched a college track meet.

In one of my college meets, I saw a couple of guys in basketball shorts run a 3k steeplechase together. They clearly had no racing experience, never mind hurdling. There was one slow guy and one really slow guy, and the faster guy was just jogging in lane 2 while the slower guy huffed and puffed. Eventually, the slower guy couldn't get over the hurdles, so he sort of climbed over them. They both pretty much swam through the water pit.

The best part was that right after the final hurdle, the slower guy starts booking it to the finish line. His teammate tried to respond, but he was caught off guard, and didn't catch him. So the slower guy "won", although I'm pretty sure they were both DQ'd. They finished in around 15 minutes, so not too bad given the circumstances...Their school was mostly terrible, but I still never figured out how these guys got on the team, never mind into one of the most demanding events on the track...