RunningAHEAD - Topic: bib numbers

posted: 10/12/2014 at 10:59 AM

I had a very cool bib number today: 6396. Am I the only person who gets bizarrely excited about bib numbers? I think this one is right up there with 666 and 767 on my all time list of best numbers I've had.

aaaand now that I just typed that out, I kind of can't believe I am 38 and still having these thoughts, as it sounds like the inner monologue of a seriously dorky 13 year old, so apparently I haven't changed much in the last 25 years. Help me out here, anyone else a bib number fan? Are you jealous of 6396 or what??

beat

Break on through

posted: 10/12/2014 at 11:06 AM

I was excited to get bib number 001, when it happened once.

"Not to touch the Earth, not to see the Sun, nothing left to do but run, run, run..."

shipo

Latent Runner

posted: 10/12/2014 at 12:08 PM
modified: 10/12/2014 at 12:08 PM

Yeah, I'm a bib number geek as well, and given that I'm 19 years older than you, I guess I'm even dorkier that that 13 year old. Smile

FWIW, my favorite bib number was 340 (my favorite small-block Chrysler motor from the 1960s and 1970s); yeah, I'm a car geek as well. Surprised

Fat old man PRs:

1-mile (point to point, gravity assist): 5:50
2-mile: 13:49
5K (gravity assist last mile): 21:31
5-Mile: 37:24
10K (first 10K of my Half Marathon): 48:16
10-Mile (first 10 miles of my Half Marathon): 1:17:40
Half Marathon: 1:42:13

Enric Hilversum

running metalhead

posted: 10/12/2014 at 4:02 PM

Got a number 13 once. Not a bad run, not my best but not bad.

- Egmond ( 14 januari ) : 1:41:40 (21K)
- Vondelparkloop ( 20 januari ) : 0:58.1 (10K but did 13.44!!!)
- Twiskemolenloop ( 4 maart ) : 1:35:19 (3th M45!)

- Ekiden Zwolle (10K) ( 25 maart )
- Rotterdam Marathon ( 8 april )
- Leiden Marathon Halve ( 27 mei )
- Marathon Amersfoort ( 10 juni)

waytogo

posted: 10/12/2014 at 6:16 PM

For my very first race, a 5k, I got #1. Last weekend at a half marathon, my running partner was #69. Between us & both of our husbands, I was impressed with how few derogatory comments were made!

kcam