Largest race you've ever won?

1997 Big Sur River Run. 34:51 (10k). There were probably about 600 people in the race. Same story as everyone else, precious few real runners were in the race. I won by 2 or 3 minutes. The course was laid out in this little campground and looped back on itself many times, I had to work my way through "lapped runners" (walkers, joggers, and folks with thier dogs) from about 2 miles through 5 miles, where the course turned back toward the finish. My middle three miles were really slow, so I ran the last one all out and managed to make myself dry heave at the end. I was training for CIM at the time and was probably in shape to go low 33's.

The irony here is that I have another thread up right now about my doubts on being able to break 40 for 10k by february.

20,000 people - Miami Corporate run! Only took a 15:20 5k

Austin Capitol 10,000 Twice 18,000 Runners 29:56 and 30:45

Dallas Turkey Trot 8 Mile 20,000 Runners 39:13

Back in the Day...

Div. II 2-mile in HS. It was about 95 degrees out with humidity, and it was terrible. Winning was sick, but I was pissed because my friends were yelling at me to run faster, they thought I was running the mile. My name was last in the paper after every other event.

I won an mostly uphill (kind of a crazy little niche race) trail mile in NH this past summer in a CR of 5:35. Shows how much the course sucks. The course is about 1.1 mile long, but its not too serious of a race, so it's whatever. It's pretty nuts, the first 1/4 or 1/5 mile is straight downhill, no joke. The road is uneven with rocks, and people eat it from time to time. After that 400M sprint, it's level for about a hundred feet, and then the rest of the course is straight uphill on a rocky as shit trail road, maybe a 25% grade, maybe a little less. I only set the CR by 1 second btw.

2:28 marathon...4500 people. a 1:11 half-marathon a few years back with a couple of thousand. several smaller races with 100-1000 people.

R.L. Scribner wrote:

The human race.

The one in MN?

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monty wrote:

Back in the early 80s won a 10K with 25,000 runners, in Detroit, MI. I think it was the Emilys Run. I think I ran 30:20 something. I won a trophy which was a runner on a Coors Light beer can. Pretty funny!!

Monty

PS Long live the "Footstop Racing Team"

I might have run this one. I'd have to check running logs to figure out which year I ran Emily's Run Downtown ("Say Nice Things About Detroit" was on the back of the T-shirts). Me and another MSU runner came down to run it and we got there late, and couldn't get our our race numbers because of the long lines and ended up having to run the race as "bandits" even though we'd preregistered.

No time to warm up, he finished 4th or 5th and I was 9th or 10th. Most people I ever beat, although less than ideal conditions.

Maybe we could have given you a little competition if we'd warmed up and been ready to roll?

I won a down hill mile in San Francisco two years in a row. Both years I ran a 4:06, one of which I won by 20 seconds. The second year I came back about 20 minutes later and won the 5k in 15:56. About 100 in the mile and 120 in the 5k.

In 1998 I won my high school home xc invitational setting a course record. My school record still stands. There was about 300-350 runners.

Biggest race(s) I won were in the 200-300 range. Most of them that I won were in the 75-100 range.

Smallest organize race I won was 7.

Just a day or so after I turned 40, I wanted to see how I could do as a Master in a fairly big race. Traveled to a city where there was a (minor) college bowl game that weekend and it had a race associated with it, so I'm thinking it should have a lot of people, right ? Wrong. 63 showed up, and that was the total for both the 5k and the 10k. Won the 10k with a 37 something. Got my split at the 5k point, and either my first half OR second half would have won the 5k by almost a minute.

Worst finish was a track 3k ... I was a local runner in my late 20's and the Jr College track coach said I could jump in. His only runner was some B-team Kenyan who ran about 8:30. I finished over 9:00 for 2nd ... dead f'in LAST.

Stan???

I was third at 1984 Big Sur River Run. Emil M was first. My wife won that race in 2002(?). Great course.

marathon-2619 people

10 miles-2412 people

a journalist wrote:

I might have run this one. I'd have to check running logs to figure out which year I ran Emily's Run Downtown ("Say Nice Things About Detroit" was on the back of the T-shirts). Me and another MSU runner came down to run it and we got there late, and couldn't get our our race numbers because of the long lines and ended up having to run the race as "bandits" even though we'd preregistered.

No time to warm up, he finished 4th or 5th and I was 9th or 10th. Most people I ever beat, although less than ideal conditions.

Maybe we could have given you a little competition if we'd warmed up and been ready to roll?

Was that race on Belle Isle?

5k with about 100 people in it in a glorious time of 19:45. I think I won by about 45 seconds, too.

Some guy won the 10k in 33 something. I didn't feel to proud.

edit: "too proud"

A 15K in 54:02 back in Feb. 1992. Race had about 200 runners.

I won a holiday 5k with about 75 people today. Although it wasn't the biggest race I'd won (300 or so), it was my slowest winning time, and biggest margin of victory. 17:45, and second was 21 flat. I shouldn't be too disappointed, it was only ten degrees F.

Run to the Far Side 10k in San Francisco. Tune-up for marathon two weeks later. ~32:30. My one memory was announcer yelling as we approached line, "these guys are couple of 30:30 guys battling for win". I remember thinking, Christ this guy inflates OTHERS PR's. I certainly had never approached 30:30, and am reasonably sure the other hadn't either.