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

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?

Very, very possible. My club does the course marking and monitoring for a local charity 5K. It's not super fast (winner in the 17min range) but there's a lot of people. I have been at various course locations directing runners over the years and I've been at mile 2 with people still walking up 50mins after race start. They always ask "How much further?". I point the way, give them some water and tell them another mile (I also tell them that if they just go 'that way over there' you can get to the finish line in a quarter mile). Honestly, you know how many have done it? None that I can recall!! They all, even the ones that are cranky and bitching about it (What the flippity?!) still go the long way. Heh.

I saw a 3 hour and 15 min womens 10k. They had to turn on the stadium lights for her to finish. Not sure what was more impressive her finishing or that people actually stayed to cheer her on--FOR THREE HOURS!

After a long break I decided to compete unattached in a 8k college CC race. I can’t remember how long I’d been training but I thought I was prepared to at least not embarrass myself. Struggled to something like a 37:49 on a fairly flat but very muddy course. Big wake up call.

ImportKenyan wrote:

I think slower runner should be allowed to run at collegiate track meets.

Agreed, but have a rule stating that anyone who gets lapped (outdoors) is DQ'd and has to step off the track.

Watching a guy run a 3 minute 800 is fine, but waiting for a 25 minute guy to finish a 5000 is not.

tacomafan wrote:

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

oh shoot yeah i had a hs indoor meet where an anchor in the 4x8 thought it was a 400 meter track, sprinted two laps and stopped, learned it was in fact a 200 meter track, and WALKED FOR THE ENTIRE THIRD LAP before jogging it in he mustve split like 4 and a half minutes and their team ran like 12:00 for a 4x8

I saw a muscle-bound guy struggle through a 14 minute 3000. There were only two people in that race, so he was probably a sprinter or thrower who had to do it to score points.

Wasn't there some guy in the 76 Olympics from Haiti that ran like 38 min in a qualifying round of the 10K?

My freshman year (DIII) as we were pulling up to a meet they were wrapping up the 10k, and my buddy and I walked around the outside of the track were keeping pace with a girl running as hard as she could in lane one. I think she finished somewhere around the one hour mark.

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?

I could go slower.

ole miss young republicans speech writer wrote:

8min girls mile

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

No, I needed those guys to keep me from looking so bad. I jumped in a college meet at 30yo to run the 400, 800 and 200, mostly as joke. Dead last in the 200 (27.2), but beat 2 people in each of the other events (63.7, 2:28).

My high school coach told me of a legendary story about his conference track meet when he was in college. Apparently, the order of events at the conference championship was something along the lines of:

-Women's 1500m

-Men's 1500m

-Women's 10k

-Men's 10k

Women's 5k

Men's 5k.

A bunch of guys on the team were running both the 1500m and the 5k later in the day. They knew that their legs would be pretty toast for the 5k if they ran hard in the 1500. But their coach had an idea: Put a female thrower in the women's 10k and a male thrower in the men's 10k. By doing this, it gave the guys doubling in the 15/5k basically an extra 2 hours since the throwers took forever to run the 10k.

Division 2, third heat of the women's 400m. The last couple stumbled in outside of 80 seconds. #sad

Actually it was in the low 40 min. range. I was there.

HOOWIEE wrote:

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.

The kid running a 9 minute mile isn’t keeping the alive at all. Get over yourself simp.

I fell out laughing as I imagined this. Awesome strategy. Awesome...my old high school coach pulled this a couple of times at local meets...bought an extra 15-20minutes here and there in the meet for the guys doubling....

Runner10287 wrote:

HOOWIEE wrote:

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

The kid running a 9 minute mile isn’t keeping the alive at all. Get over yourself simp.

It depends on the distance. Running 9:00/mile pace for a 200 looks horrific, but I don't see a problem with that since it doesn't delay the meet.

Running 9:00/mile pace for a 5000, on the other hand...

It's fine to mention times, but don't mention names or link to results. That's just shaming someone for probably doing what they love.

ConsistencyIsKing wrote:

My high school coach told me of a legendary story about his conference track meet when he was in college. Apparently, the order of events at the conference championship was something along the lines of:

-Women's 1500m

-Men's 1500m

-Women's 10k

-Men's 10k

Women's 5k

Men's 5k.

A bunch of guys on the team were running both the 1500m and the 5k later in the day. They knew that their legs would be pretty toast for the 5k if they ran hard in the 1500. But their coach had an idea: Put a female thrower in the women's 10k and a male thrower in the men's 10k. By doing this, it gave the guys doubling in the 15/5k basically an extra 2 hours since the throwers took forever to run the 10k.

Great strategy lol!

Anyone ever do the distance triple? You might be able to squeeze out a few extra points if it’s a close meet.

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. 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?

We have a local 4 lap relay race around a lake (each lap is like 4 miles). Old dude shows up with a walker and starts shuffling along the course. Managed to finish his lap just as the last of the 4th legs were finishing, everyone let out a huge cheer as he approached the finishing line.