$45 for a 5k, price goes up to $65 if you don't register early, goes towards cancer awareness
Winning time is 17:40 and 3 guys break 20
Carbohydrate stops every mile
Awards are given based on costumes rather than running ability
Is that really what it's like or has it been exaggerated?
Other than the costume award comment, you're really not that far off. 17:40 is a little fast. Most races are probably closer to 18:30
people at the start line with camel packs for a 5k.
Dont forget the runners in basketball shorts.
LetsRun Old-Timer wrote:
$45 for a 5k, price goes up to $65 if you don't register early, goes towards cancer awareness
Winning time is 17:40 and 3 guys break 20
Carbohydrate stops every mile
Awards are given based on costumes rather than running ability
Is that really what it's like or has it been exaggerated?
Not far off. actually. Price sounds about right and those times could be literally correct. Water stops every mile but not gels. Awards given to EVERYONE, people expect finisher's medals for 5K even if they walk. Age group winners get medals which are smaller than finisher's medals. People in costumes, fat ladies in tutus. Lots of courses set up so you have to run through them, and they have a huge sense of entitlement and don't yield to people who are racing it.
I have seen a few races where awards go to ‘best costume,’ but rarely & usually on Halloween weekend. Other than that, everything sounds exactly like my local 5ks.
Don't forget everyone is a winner Color Run Championship.
Pretty close wrote:
Other than the costume award comment, you're really not that far off. 17:40 is a little fast. Most races are probably closer to 18:30
In my area, 5ks are often won in 19-20 minutes. 17 is considered a FAST race. Break 18 and you're a god.
So what's keeping all of you oh-so-serious speedsters from showing up and winning these races in times you deem to be respectable?
Ugh... wrote:
So what's keeping all of you oh-so-serious speedsters from showing up and winning these races in times you deem to be respectable?
They're not giving me a Porsche for winning
LetsRun Old-Timer wrote:
$45 for a 5k, price goes up to $65 if you don't register early, goes towards cancer awareness
Winning time is 17:40 and 3 guys break 20
Carbohydrate stops every mile
Awards are given based on costumes rather than running ability
Is that really what it's like or has it been exaggerated?
Yep you just about nailed it. The costume thing is very annoying.
Most races don't do prizes or any prize other than another crappy medal because they're afraid of upsetting the hobby joggers they cater to. And they use the excuse that the race is for charity so it would not align with the races beliefs even though about half the charity races are total BS charities.
You’re not wrong.
Djdhxdjdj wrote:
Ugh... wrote:
So what's keeping all of you oh-so-serious speedsters from showing up and winning these races in times you deem to be respectable?
They're not giving me a Porsche for winning
Real ballers don’t need an award. Hitting redline is enough...
Go ahead nd tell yourself that, but anyone with sense doesn't work for free.
Ugh... wrote:
So what's keeping all of you oh-so-serious speedsters from showing up and winning these races in times you deem to be respectable?
Don't want to pay $45 to do a 5k tempo run. Fast guys get literally nothing from these races, not even competition.
Giggling wrote:
Go ahead nd tell yourself that, but anyone with sense doesn't work for free.
Running was better before professionalism. Guys in the 70s working 9-5 jobs, logging 120+ MPW and running 2:09.
Slow Region wrote:
Ugh... wrote:
So what's keeping all of you oh-so-serious speedsters from showing up and winning these races in times you deem to be respectable?
Don't want to pay $45 to do a 5k tempo run. Fast guys get literally nothing from these races, not even competition.
Well, get at least one of your fast buddies to show up too, and you've got competition! Then next time even more fast guys will show up when they see you put up respectable results.
And as for the entry fee, I thought everyone on letsrun.com made over $250k per year. Don't tell me that people lie in all the "what's your income/net worth" threads!
I have run one 5K race and obviously picked the wrong one. It was hosted by a local high school XC team (this team had been nationally ranked the season before) and the winner was a high school senior with a 15:44 and I ended up in 11th with my 17:05. At least I won the M40-49 division by 5 1/2 minutes. At least it wasn’t Carlsbad 5K where I would have been smoked by plenty of elite masters 5K runners.
Yeah pretty much, but so what? Let the masses enjoy running, running in itself is a cultural activity - not everybody wants to be a stone-faced die-hard who takes running too seriously and has no other enjoyments or achievements in life other than their 14:10 college PR that they gush over because now they’re 30 years older and depressed because now they’re a 55 year old 17 minute runner who cannot figure out why the youth of today are so slow. They probably think about that more than they think about women because the running OCD personality and being an all round stick-in-the-mud probably prevented any potemtial relationship/marriage that would ever be available.
If those races are too slow or “pathetic” then find a race that isn’t because I can guarentee re are plenty upon plenty of people in the world faster than every single person who comes on here to sub local races/runners.
Ugh... wrote:
Slow Region wrote:
Don't want to pay $45 to do a 5k tempo run. Fast guys get literally nothing from these races, not even competition.
Well, get at least one of your fast buddies to show up too, and you've got competition! Then next time even more fast guys will show up when they see you put up respectable results.
And as for the entry fee, I thought everyone on letsrun.com made over $250k per year. Don't tell me that people lie in all the "what's your income/net worth" threads!
Nah, then they'd have to face reality of what they are as runners. It's much easier to live in blissful ignorance as they hide behind the excuse of "I'm too busy training to go run some hobby jogger race!"
Just like how they brag on letsrun.com about how rich they are, while they can't even afford to pay an occasional entry fee.
A 55-year-old 17-minute runner (assuming you mean 17:00 and not 17:59) is nationally competitive in his age group and so is doing pretty well, at least runningwise.