I don't have my logs from my younger, more competitive years, but over the last 5 years it was a 10K with about 140 runners. Only took a mid-35 to win it.
I don't have my logs from my younger, more competitive years, but over the last 5 years it was a 10K with about 140 runners. Only took a mid-35 to win it.
350ish
5k-16:40
I won the Bay to Breakers once.
16 - xc dual meet - mid 80's - rfh vs keansburg - 5K in 18 something at holmdel. never regained that championship form. counseling solved nothing.
11 Feb 2007, beat all 66 other runners in a 5k.
The winning time was about a minute off my PR, and my PR is downright embarrassing even after applying the standard l-run adjustment.
I won that Hopkinton to Boston race four times. The crowds were pretty large in those races. I also won a large marathon in New York about four times as well...
I won the "local" July 4th race two years in a row. That race had 3500 people in it.
That number is quite decieving though, most of the 3500 are casual runners/joggers. I won with a 15:52.
I'm don't think that the total number of people in all the races I've won, which were a couple of podunk road races and a few track miles, is over 200. But victory is sweet just the same. And hell, I've added to other's total scalps often enough.
I have not won many races, mostly a few small all-comers track meets and a few high school (dual meet) XC races. The largest race I won was a junior varsity division at a XC invitational my freshman year. I think there were around 100 people in it.
I agree, victory is sweet. I've won races and not been happy with my time and probably acted like a jerk. When I realize I do that, I feel like an ass.
Ok, that's a little off subject. Last year I won a 5k with 1500 people in 15:11.
footlocker ne senior race...239 people
I won a five-miler with 2000 people in it
A JV XC race when I was a jr. in HS. There was probably 5 or 6 schools there.
AAU 4k Regional - 200 kids -
Manhattan JV Race - ??? - no idea how this happened, helped my buddy get to the front and had a great day..love that straightaway to the finish
Local 10k - no idea..150/200 people..not a lot of competition..
1/2 Marathon - 185 (not a good win, guy cramped up towards the end and would have outkicked me)
masters fattie wrote:
1/2 Marathon - 185 (not a good win, guy cramped up towards the end and would have outkicked me)
Nah, thats still a good win. A bad win would've been you punching him in the stomach, causing the cramp ;)
Only some dual meet track races for my victories.
Any honest win is a good win. Take it a be happy with it!
I won a local 10K in about 33 minutes one year. Funny thing was that it was in Steve Scott's hometown of Upland, CA, and since I won, I got my name on the "perpetual" trophy, along with Scott's, who had won it the inaugural year. Wasn't a huge race, but it's a boring day at work, being Christmas Eve and all, so I thought I'd post.
I won a small 5k in 19:03 a few months ago. Im a 17:15 or so guy, but this was such an easy race, and I was in the middle of training, so I didnt push it at all. There were only about 75 people there, and the guy that came in 2nd was one of my professors, so I kinda stayed with him so he could keep on my shoulder.
I think it was about 90-120 runners.
5K - 17:40ish
The only other road race I won was about 40 or so people and I won a 5K in 18:20 or so.
ONLY race that i've ever won - about 50-60 people in my high school alumni race. Not a great time for the (approx) 4k, BUT I was 29 years old, and never even made the varsity in high school, so it was fun to beat all of them now.
I wondered if my coach was impressed by my improvement, or disgusted by how slow i ran when he needed me...