Slowest winner ever?

I won a race on Memorial Day with a stellar time of 19:23 for 5k. It was a small race and I ran just to win. It was still funny to see the look on the people's faces at the finish line when they saw a little 14 year old kid winning their road race.

Damn, and I thought it was bad when I won a 5k in 17:01 and a 5 mile in 28:50. Even worse, I won $250 in prize money at the 5k.

I won a 5k in 17:55 the weekend after the chicago marathon, I thought that was bad.

The best story i have about this is a track meet from high school.

There were 4 teams competing, and I was only running the meet as a workout, so my coach put me in the 4x800, 1600, 800, and 3200.

I ran 2:14 in the 4x800 (we won by alot), 5:20 in the mile (just kicked the last 200), My personal favorite - ran a whopping 2:20 in the open 800 (kicked last 100), and ~11:00 for the 3200 (won by alot).

I remember feeling both astonished about winning all 4 events and pathetic for actually running those times at the same time.

Oh those were the days...

Me again. I forgot a good one. In HS I won an indoor 1600 (as a junior in a varsity race) in 5:07, but to make it worse I used sit and kick tactics on a kid with a limp.

Freshman yr in college I ran the 600 yard for indoor conf. The two guys in front of my tangled up and fell; I hurdled their corpuses to win the heat in 1:22. Looked good in front of the girls though.

I think you are talking about the Goodwill Games. They basically got booed off the track, I think winning time was like 15:24?

I won a race in 18:12 for 3miles. The worst thing was I also won the 1mile run, which started at the same time as the 3mile run but they stopped at the 1mile mark.

In a dual meet in high school I won the 1600 in 4:57 and the 3200 in 11:18. I ran an 82 first lap and had a 20m lead. I broke out in laughter at 500m because the others were so pathetically slow. People came up to congratulate me on the win the next day and asked what my time was. I have never been more embarrassed about winning than I was that day.

It would be funny if someone won the 800meters at a State Meet in over 2 minutes...oh wait...I did. 2:00.54

I won a small half-marathon in 1:24, not near a pr and took home a $300 prize. The conditions were fine and there were a lot of runners, but for some reason, none of the big boys were there. It was funny, but I was happy to win.

Yes you're talking about the Goodwill Games, and it was the first time in at least this century in a major meet that THE WINNING WOMENS' TIME WAS FASTER THAN THE WINNING MENS' TIME!

Along the lines of the women being faster. I was attending a wedding in Gatlinburg, TN. I had been running very little. I saw a race the morning of the wedding and thought it would be a good motivator to put up a lousy time, and get training. The race had about 100 runners. A woman shot out to the lead. I caught her by the mile but was struggling and I didn't want to duke it out with her, so I backed off. I finished 2nd overall, the woman was first. Turned out that the woman was Jasmin Keller (formerly Jasmin Jones) so outkicking her may not have been an easy task if I tried. She ran 17:06 & I trudged home in 17:25. I was embarrassed and wanted to leave my trophy behind and scram. My wife insisted that I stay to be respectful to the race directors. I received my trophy and as I began to walk away, they said, "Don't forget the watch." They didn't advertise that each winner received a $600 gold watch. In the early 80's I ran a certified 14:15 for a pair of socks, and now at 38 years old get a gold watch for a 17:25 and losing to the top woman.

Some of those posts are amusing. My slowest wins include

a 5:35 (1,600m) 12:30 (3,200) 12:33 (road 2 mile) 19:30 (5k-xc) 38:00 (10k) 1:21:35 (1/2 mar) and my personal favorite, a 5k road victory in 18:30, my MOTHER got second overall in 25 and change...

Despite my distance runner build, I own a 16# shot. Two years ago I took it to a USATF meet for the h*ll of it. Turns out I was the only one entered, and won (and received a medal) for my 19'4" effort.

The first race I ever won was a few months after I started running. I ran 19:36 (5K) and won by more than 2 minutes. Picked up $50, too. Later that day I ran a 10K race, as well, but got my shit dusted there.

WOW. I think Ex D1 takes the cake. That is absolutely hilarious.

Did they announce the results over the loud speaker at all? I think I would have peed myself if I heard the announcer go "And today's winner in the Men's shotput, with a throw of just under 20 feet, goes to..."

High quality.

Scott B., Kicking your own mother's ass for the overall win easily wins the prize thus far in my eyes. That is very funny! Did you make her serve you an extra special dinner that night for failing to measure up to her boy. Good stuff!

Since my league was terrible for distance runners in high school, I could always just jog through my dual meets (atleast the distance events.) I would rarely have to break 2:15, 5:00, or 11:00 for a win, and would often run the 3200m just to win since I would be running the 4x400 immediately afterwards. My junior year, in a very poorly run meet (they also screwed up hurdle heights and staggers) they only made us run 7 laps. I had been just jogging along, trying to help our 800m runner get some points by sticking with him and the other team's top runner (the other kid got 2nd, damnit) but my winning time was probably the most pathetic that I have ever seen. It was over 12 minutes, and yet only 7 laps. Slower than my recovery run pace, but an ok warmup for that mile relay.