Your very first race...

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Let's hope y'all can remember when it was! Feel free to answer one for track/cross country as well!

Name of race:
Date:
Time:
Memories:

joel

Excelent

Cross Country Camp Race Circa August 1983. Joe and I were the other set of twins on the team.

Good Memory, First Race
Bad Memory, puke

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Don't remember time but I think it was in 21-22 minute range, Joe sound about right.

Frightened Inmate #2

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Frightened Inmate #2

Name : Dump your Plump 5K
Date : This time last year
Time : ~25:30
Memories : Thinking I was going to win.

Hey, it was my first race and I didn't know any better. Getting to the race and hearing the race director tell everyone that ran at an 8:00 pace or slower to get to the back. Shocked

If I was in the >40 y.o female, I would have gotten a medal. I also remember on a hill in mile three a volunteer cheering me on and and asking me "It isn't THAT bad is it?"

I don't think I'd actually ever run 3 miles before that race. I was extremely nieve [sp?] to running before that race, never having run with anyone for any set distance and having no idea that some people could actually run faster than me.

Adjunct

Let's hope y'all can remember when it was! Feel free to answer one for track/cross country as well!

Name of race: coatesville hs, coatesville pa
Date: aug 1983
Time: dnf (the only race i ever dnf)
Memories: swore from that day that i would never ever quit a race unless i passed out first
the tiredness i felt was nothing compared to the shame
it changed my life forever

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5k corporate challange
Summer of '89
About 27:00

I beat my 3 mile track PR for the 5k and almost hurled a lung crossing the line. I retired for 5 years after that Smile

my boys could swim

7th grade I ran the 1600 meter run at the Dan Lennon Invitational Track Meet. This is held indoors at the Dakota Dome in Vermillion, SD.

My time was like 6:12 or something, but the only thing I remember is that I finished last. My first race ever, and I finished last. It was a varsity track meet, and I was a 7th grader, but that never happened to me again.

In fact a week later, I went out and ran the 1600 in 5:47 and beat several people. Mr. Green

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I ran track in 8th grade and my freshman year. In 8th grade I ran the 4x100 relay and we took state! Freshman year I stunk cuz I didn't take it too seriously and my mind was already in 'soccer-mode'.

Name of race:Sole burner 5K
Date: May of '99
Time: I believe it was 23:40
Memories: I remember the exact feeling I had before the gun went off....I remember the horrendous hill at the end of the race...I remember the feeling of accomplishment when I darted past the finish line...That's what it's all about, baby....

Gone Fishin

Sept'80, I get alot of motivation from remembering my first race. It was a 2-mile cross-country course and I came in dead last. During the race, the kid that was second to last was yacking and crying. I'd catch up to him barfing his lunch away, he'd look up at me coming and take off in a sprint outta site down the trail. A few minutes later, I'd catch up to him again, and we'd repeat the go round all the way to the end. My time was something crazy like 23:+ that day. A couple years later, I can remember shaving ten minutes off my time. That first year of cross-country I was last more often than not. I was a literal worst to first runner in high school.

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My first race was almost a year ago.
The Great Race, Pittsburgh. I did the 5K.
September 2001
30:58

I remember thinking of it as such a big adventure. I noticed all the people around me, listening in to their conversations. One thing that made an impression was that there was a family running together that I spoke with. The youngest child was about 8. Then there was an older couple running together. I'd guess in their 60's. Also, this was a couple weeks after last year's terrorism. I remember shivers during the singing of the Star Spangled Banner before the start.

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My first race was the Run for Life, sponsored by the physical therapy dept at Mizzou.

It was supposed to be a 5k.

My time? 26:30

Memories: I saw my hubby (a PT student at the time) halfway with water and I asked him whether there was anyone behind me. I was afraid to look and I didn't want to be last! When I finished I was astonished that I, who had never broken a ten minute mile, had gotten such a great time on my first race. Then I figured that since everyone was saying the same thing, that the course was short. And short it was... it took me two years to come close to getting another 26:30.

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Well besides high school, mine was The Autumn Amble 5K in November of 2000. Had returned to running for a few years already but this was the first organized race I ran in. Time was 19:32. 1st place in my age bracket(yes it was a small race)........

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Name of race: St. Louis Zoo Run 5k
My time was 28.00

I remember it being hot!! I also remember some guy pushing a stroller flying past me. The date was June 2, 2002

I came in 110 out of 750 women. I was pretty pleased with that.

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