How many races do you run per year?

Real runners don't race. They just do a workout and ask letsrun to predict their time.

I'm training to run one every 4 years...

The Olympic Trials!

Here's a dirty little secret: not many active runners post here. Lots of former runners and running fans, but not many active runners. This is evidenced by the lack of responses to this thread; the answer for many is zero.

You'll get more response at runners world.com. I'm serious.

Many, but most are not full tilt efforts.

dFwf wrote:

Many, but most are not full tilt efforts.

What's the point of paying to jog in a race?

10-15, mostly confined to the indoor/outdoor season.

I probably race about 10 times a year.

About once a month minus the winter months.

Last year, 5. This year, 7, hopefully, if a nagging injury makes one more goal race possible.

I'm old, and the weather here means that the racing season is relatively short. One ill-timed injury means that you miss half the races on your calendar.

I try to do about 1 per month and I like to vary the distances. Probably 10-15 a year. I've done half marathon, full marathon, 8k, 4 miler and a few 5k's so far this year. Looking to do a mile and 10 miler in August. In the fall I'll probably do a 15k, another half or two, and some more 5k's. Unfortunately not a lot of 10k's in the area I live.

25 on a good year, less if I'm also playing rec ultimate. We have all-comer's track on Wednesdays in the summer so I have raced twice a week (Wednesday, Saturday) for several weeks in a row before.

Around 15+ races depending on how I'm performing. A lot of meets are optional and I like to throw some road races in the mix.

reality czech wrote:

Last year, 5. This year, 7, hopefully, if a nagging injury makes one more goal race possible.

I'm old, and the weather here means that the racing season is relatively short. One ill-timed injury means that you miss half the races on your calendar.

Where do you live? I live in Texas where it gets hot as blazes, but you can still find road races just about every weekend, year-round.

10-12. My local race series has 6 races from 5k through 10k. I typically will do a 4th of July race and, most years, a Turkey Trot on top of that. I almost always do my local half marathon. Usually our local corporate challenge. Then usually one destination race.

None in the summer and winter, about 5-10 in the fall and 10 in the spring.

15-20

25-30

45-65. I'm a HS athlete and I def race way too much sometimes running 2-3 races on a weekday for a dual meet and then 3-4 races on the weekend for an invitational or relay meet during track season. Then I probably have around 15 xc races. Plus indoor track races. But my track races are 400-3200 so not terribly long.

17 so far in 2017, from 800m to 10K.