Saturday I'm going to bandit a 10km road race. A bit of context for you women in the nose bleed section. I'm pacing my 60 y/o father for an age group pb of under 49 mins and only 500 entries are aloud. He entered and I missed out so I am thinking of wearing my half marathon bib from last years race here and do the 10km and hope no one notices. I will pull out a few hundred metres before the finish. Do any of you guys have any tips on banditing a race and not getting caught.
Once my girlfriend and I went to the local running shop to sign me up for a 12K road race the next day. The cost was stupid high, but I only did one road race a year, and was likely to win my age group at least/finish top 10 overall, so I figured I win it back (partially at least in merch). My girlfriend had done the race the year before and had placed somewhere in the top 10 overall but wasn't going to sign up because she thought they had jacked up the price too high. She told that to the guy doing the sign ups, and he told her to just bandit the race. So the next day, she bandited the race with verbal approval from race officials. (It was a long time ago, so I don't remember if the official was her college teammate who was part of the team operating the events/timing.)
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Saturday I'm going to bandit a 10km road race. A bit of context for you women in the nose bleed section. I'm pacing my 60 y/o father for an age group pb of under 49 mins and only 500 entries are aloud. He entered and I missed out so I am thinking of wearing my half marathon bib from last years race here and do the 10km and hope no one notices. I will pull out a few hundred metres before the finish. Do any of you guys have any tips on banditing a race and not getting caught.
IF I DONT PACE FROM THE START HE WILL ATTEMP TO GO OUT 5 MINUTE MILE PACE AND FLIPPIN BONK 200METRES INTO THE RACE AND THEN PACK IT IN AND GO HOME DEVISTATED
IF I DONT PACE FROM THE START HE WILL ATTEMP TO GO OUT 5 MINUTE MILE PACE AND FLIPPIN BONK 200METRES INTO THE RACE AND THEN PACK IT IN AND GO HOME DEVISTATED
POST RACE UPDATE: The race is an A to B route with a bus ride from the finish to the start, your race bib number gets checked before getting on the bus. I wore my race bib from the half marathon from 2022 and Parked the car 5km up the course by an aid station and did a 5km easy jog to the start. Its next to impossible to pace for my father because he goes out sprinting and does the opposite of what I say. He is 60 y/o. 1km was 4:12 and I knew the race was over and he would blow up. Goal pace was 4:30 to run sub 45 in the 10km. He hit the wall after 4km and the 5th km was 5:18. Managed to do the last 5km at around 5min/km pace and brought home the 1st place trophy for his age group with a time of 47:30. I pulled to the side with 200m to go and pinched a finisher medal. Neither of us went home devastated.