Discuss The First 10km Road Race That You Ever Ran.

5 years ago when i was 14y/o, in Oeiras (portugal)

managed about 42 or 41 high dont really remember.

One of my favourite distances today, i have a high 33 pb and hopping to lower it even more.

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It was my hometown 10k in May 2000 and I was 12. I had accepted that I was no good at any sports, but I felt it was ridiculous that I was getting dropped by the fat kids when we ran wind sprints in P.E., so I started running a mile most mornings around my neighborhood. Some days I ran a mile in the afternoons, too.

This 10k was very popular among the more athletic kids in grades 6 through 12 in our area, so there was a lot of talk about it at school in the couple of months prior. When I mentioned that I'd decided to run it, the girl I had a huge crush on started teasing me, assuming that my race would be a wash, asking whether I thought I could beat 55 minutes (her time from 5th grade). I told her I didn't know. Then I doubled my mileage to 2 miles every morning.

On race day, I struggled through the last sweltering miles to run 47:59. My crush crossed the line at just over an hour, and I was happy to tell her my time.

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36:12 - finished 12th in a race in June 1978 in Cleveland, the Heart Run, or something like that. I was 16.

For the love of god TRex why do you keep bumping this thread? STOP IT.

I was 14, it was 1992 in Miami, and I jumped in the 10K by Parrot Jungle and ran 35:44. I had my splits in my log, but I went something like 5:08 for the first mile and proceeded to slow down over 10+ seconds/mile until it was over.

I immediately jumped in one two weeks later and ran in the Orange Bowl 10K in 34:55 to place 3rd overall and came out in Runner's World in the race results section. I'm sure the weather was miserable for both, but I was hooked.

1981 Diet Pepsi series in Mansfield, Ohio right before I turned 14. I ran 44:03 and was third in my age group.

I recall getting a mailing afterwards that I finished in the 97th percentile of my age group in that series.

Anybody remember the Diet Pepsi 10k? The overall winners of the regional races competed in a championship race. I think Matthews Mottswarateu won over Bill Rodgers and Rod Dixon.

The winner of my regional race was John Glidewell in 29:20. He went on to finish second to Craig Virgin at Bay to Breakers.

My memories of that race was I went out too fast. I had never raced a distance of over one mile and was a 5:30 miler and went out in 5:50 and never experienced anything like the last 2-3 miles. At that time I probably was running about 10 miles total in a week.

In those days there were no 5k races, if you ran a road race it was at least 10k.

My mom used to sew some of our clothes and she made me my own special matching shorts and singlet. I don't know anybody born after 1980 that would know what a sewing machine looks like.

Also remember my dad, who was divorced from my mom, driving an hour to watch my race from the hospital where his dad was in a coma after suffering a stroke. They pulled the plug the very next day.

Diet Pepsi for me too. Ran a few 3 and 4 mile races but the K's were just starting in the early 80's. This was my first time with bib #1 so I lived up to the billing. Remember going thru 2 in 9:40 (mostly down hill) then Ralph Edwards from Twin Cities let me know the gig was up and reality set in. Think I was 3rd in 32:??. This was in Sioux Falls.

Ha! It was my first 10k! I ran for three years in high school and then went to junior college and didn't run. Went to Oregon in 1981 for my junior year, starting winter term. They, at that time, required 5 phys ed classes to graduate. So, I signed up for Road Running as my first gym class. It was great, my dorm was across the street from Hayward and I could roll out five minutes before for my 9:30 class. Homework was running on Pre's trail!

I started dating a girl and I told her I was doing this race called the Eugene Symphony Run and she said she'd go along to watch. The packet pick up was at the Y over toward South Eugene high school. I got my number on and at the start there were a dozen of Athletics West guys doing the race as a workout. Of course they all beat me, and though I went out too fast I ran a 35:53, getting 17th place. It was out of about 400 runners, so my date didn't get my finish photo because she didn't realize it be up toward the front.

The next year I was out of shape comparatively, so I ran the 5k, and got 6th place in about 18 minutes. It was a death march. Didn't train again until I was 40. Now I'm happy with 45 minutes.

I ran that same race in Mansfield. I was 16 and it was right after my soph year. I ran 35:56 and my pepsi rating was 93.

My first 10k was when I was 14. It was the 2nd Citizens Journal 10k in Columbus in 1979. Started at the old Central High school. The building is now Cosi and the race has again started there the last few years. I ran the 880 in jr high so after I signed up for the race, I started running a hilly 4.2 mile loop in the country every day after school for the two or three weeks before the race. I ran 42:20 and based on my success at the 880 was sure I would get an award being handed out by Dave Wottle. I was shocked when 5th place was 39 something. I went back the following year and ran 34:50 but was in the 15-19 age group and still wasn't close to placing.