Girl accidentally runs half-marathon instead of 5K

A common mistake

Pay for the 5K, run the half Mary? I like her thinking. She probably even got the upgraded finishers medal, too, and banked her savings.

Who honestly Cares ? it would be different if she accidentally ran the half and ran sub 1:15. but come on. this happens every weekend somewhere, and this is just one that made the press. WAJ

A while back a friend of mine accidentally ran the marathon course instead of the half at a nearby race. He ended up crossing the line first in the marathon, which started at the same time. Instead of declaring him the victor of the marathon, they disqualified him.

kvothe wrote:

A while back a friend of mine accidentally ran the marathon course instead of the half at a nearby race. He ended up crossing the line first in the marathon, which started at the same time. Instead of declaring him the victor of the marathon, they disqualified him.

That was the proper thing to do. The girl who made the error for this thread is 12-years old. How old is your friend to accidentally not know he was run 26.2 and not 13.1 miles?

kvothe wrote:

A while back a friend of mine accidentally ran the marathon course instead of the half at a nearby race. He ended up crossing the line first in the marathon, which started at the same time. Instead of declaring him the victor of the marathon, they disqualified him.

The people mentioned on this thread must be the worst pacers ever. Why would you run a half-marathon at a pace that left you with enough in the tank to randomly tack another 13.1 miles onto the end?

pace poor wrote:

kvothe wrote:

A while back a friend of mine accidentally ran the marathon course instead of the half at a nearby race. He ended up crossing the line first in the marathon, which started at the same time. Instead of declaring him the victor of the marathon, they disqualified him.

The people mentioned on this thread must be the worst pacers ever. Why would you run a half-marathon at a pace that left you with enough in the tank to randomly tack another 13.1 miles onto the end?

Agreed. Stuff like this happens usually from people not paying attention. It's really not that hard to ask someone where the start is for the half or full to verify both are running the same event.

So how fast did she run the Marathon?

I ran the Fargo Marathon a few years back in a pace group with a guy who hand't been paying attention to the schedule of race starts and lined up at the first race start of the day, which happened to be a 10K, which he ran thinking he was doing the marathon. He realized at the halfway point that it was the wrong race and slowed the heck down but had to finish anyway so he could line up to start the marathon. Poor guy ran out of gas at about mile 16 of the marathon and eventually powered it in like thirty minutes behind his goal time.

What I give the girl credit for is that she figured out she was in the half marathon about mile 4, but finished anyway.

http://13wham.com/news/local/12-year-old-accidentially-finishes-half-marathon

Most 12 year olds would have bailed. That's a tough kid. I hope she gets recruited for XC when she's a bit older.

Looks like there's another 12-year-old girl who finished it in 1:49. That's pretty good.

kvothe wrote:

A while back a friend of mine accidentally ran the marathon course instead of the half at a nearby race. He ended up crossing the line first in the marathon, which started at the same time. Instead of declaring him the victor of the marathon, they disqualified him.

Another example of our dumbed down society.

At the last drinks station she accidently went into a bar and downed a pint with a whiskey chaser

I entered my first race at 9 years old, it was a two mile fun run. Missed the turn around and went 10K.

I suspected fairly early on that I was running too far, but had to finish the race because in my 9 year old brain, not getting to the finish line would mean I'd be lost, never see my parents again, and be homeless for the rest of my life.

kids are dumb wrote:

I entered my first race at 9 years old, it was a two mile fun run. Missed the turn around and went 10K.

I suspected fairly early on that I was running too far, but had to finish the race because in my 9 year old brain, not getting to the finish line would mean I'd be lost, never see my parents again, and be homeless for the rest of my life.

Ha ha, that is great! Totally spot on with how your brain works at that age. Nice job finishing the 10k, I never ran that far in a race until I was 16 I think.

Short Course wrote:

kvothe wrote:

A while back a friend of mine accidentally ran the marathon course instead of the half at a nearby race. He ended up crossing the line first in the marathon, which started at the same time. Instead of declaring him the victor of the marathon, they disqualified him.

That was the proper thing to do. The girl who made the error for this thread is 12-years old. How old is your friend to accidentally not know he was run 26.2 and not 13.1 miles?

Every instance of this is not them accidentally running extra mileage, its showing up to the race and realizing that it's not a race they thought it was an running it anyways.

I heard a story of a guy who lined up for what he thought was the start of the Detroit Marathon 5K, but was really the marathon (both started at similar times at nearby spots along the course). He made it across the Ambassador Bridge connecting the U.S. to Canada before realizing what had gone wrong. Lucky he made it back through the tunnel without border patrol spotting his 5K number!

Didn't a dog just do this a few weeks ago? Not that big a deal.

A lot of people run the same pace regardless of the distance . Even for a mile run. They are called plodders and are similar to a trollers on this site.