Largest race you've ever won?

Ukiah 1/2 Marathon 1996-1:16;15-Only recieved a hand ful of flowers.Jim Jones was n't around then!!!!!!!

Won a race with 10,000 people in it

I've not won many. I think the biggest was when I beat 12 people and a golden retriever.

jsquire wrote:

I've not won many. I think the biggest was when I beat 12 people and a golden retriever.

The golden retriever must have been using it as an easy training run.

Mine is pretty lame. Last year the family was on vacation down in disney world and it happened to overlap with the marathon weekend. Since I didn't want to run a full to interrupt my track training and the half was full, I signed up for the 5k. There were a couple of thousand people on the starting line as we ran through MGM studios. I won in like a 16:28 or so. All of the 'real' runners were in the other races though as I won by like 30 seconds and it wasn't much of a push. Like I said, pretty lame but fun nonetheless.

I won the Berlin Marathon with a time of 2:04:26. Bitch.

The biggest was either a cross country race a large amount of years back or a 5K I did for fun and ended up winning in a sprint finish, but I don't know the exact numbers. I only run track now so the usual answer is 8!

My largest race would have to been at Stanford invite 1500m. I won the fast heat in 3:40xx in 06'. Great competition too!

6th grade field day. Two laps around the ballfield. I am fairly sure I had negative splits.

2003 Cellcom Green Bay 1/2 Marathon. Just over 1,000 people. It was fun.

About 100 in a local road race. At the time I felt kind of arrogant about it since I won by almost minute with a slow time, but now I just feel proud that I actually won something.

Te North Island xc champs as a 16 year old in the U20 grade -probably about 50/60 people

OR

Wellington Round the Bays 3 years in a row -10000+ people

Hockeytown wrote:

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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?

Wasn't on Belle Isle the year I ran. It was near Max & Emily's. Don't remember the cross streets.