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Hey quick question......what was your time in your first 5k race......i just want to compare it to mine (28:14)

19:05 I think. Do you mind me asking why?

At age 16 I ran my first 3 mile run with my dad. I never had trained before. I had run a bit playing baseball, football, basketball in our yard. I had run a time trial mile once before this in 6:37. I ran the 3 miles in 26:40 as my dad pace me slow through a 9 minute 1st mile. The next day I ran the 1st mile harder (under 8:00) and paid the penalty hurting the whole way and ran the 3 miles in 25:40. It all depends on your age, your genes and how fit you are etc. etc. etc. The actual 1st race i ran my official time was 23:28 (about a month after I started to train in high school).

you could get answers from 15 minutes to 45 minutes. Mine probably was technically 18 something since I only ran a few in high school. Then 20-some years later my "first" timed 5k of my second running life was 27:49.

you could get answers from 15 minutes to 45 minutes. Mine probably was technically 18 something since I only ran a few in high school. Then 20-some years later my "first" timed 5k of my second running life was 27:49.

I agree with this statement. I have no idea what I ran in my first, since it was back in jr. high. Probably in the 22-23 minute range. I was fast as a kid and played lots of soccer. In high school and into my early 20's, I was consistently running around 20 minute 5K times, and had a PR of 18:57. I got back into regular running a couple of years ago. My first 5K that I "trained" for in the modern era, I ran 26:35. I have whittled that down to 25:25. There is so much variance in age, condition, goals, and body type on this board that trying to compare your time to others, arbitrarily, is not really helpful. I primarily just run against myself (and my sister-in-law). I I happen to place in my age group in a small race, then great. However, I gauge my progress by my own logs and improvement. As long as I keep getting faster and/or running farther, then I am making progress.

Be very cautious in trying to compare anyone elses race times to yours...

And one of the reasons to be cautious, is that people who are running (much) slower than you do, won't be very tempted to tell you their pace... I haven't ran a race ever, and I don't know I will even run a 5K race (I feel tempted to try a trail race in 2009, but not a street race like more 5K's are). I'm a 46 y.o., short legged small female (5'1''), and considering my time for a 5K easy run, I think I would be able to run a 5k in 34 minutes...

My first 5K time was 23:15 at the ripe old age of 36.

26:11 in Feb. 2006. This year I ran the same race in 24:27.