RunningAHEAD - Topic: I DID IT!!! I ran my first 5k (page 2)

posted: 4/19/2008 at 10:30 PM

congratulations on your 5k! i've been running for years and never managed to get bib #1!

MissPratt

uncontrollable

posted: 4/20/2008 at 9:18 AM

Great job! Your first and that was your time? Wow - I won't say what mine was but it wasn't that fast. I still have my first race ever, 5k T-shirt from 8 years ago this May! Very special shirt to me!

peace

waytogo

posted: 4/20/2008 at 9:29 AM

Thanks so much, everyone!

Bugs

posted: 4/20/2008 at 11:58 AM

Great Work. That's cool you were number #1. When's the next race?

Bugs

PrinceJ

posted: 4/20/2008 at 4:37 PM

I was never lower than #33, sao #1 sounds good. All this for your first race--what to do for an encore?

I'm condemned by a society that demands success when all I can offer is failure. -Max Bialystock

waytogo

posted: 4/20/2008 at 6:38 PM

Quote from Bugs on 4/20/2008 at 11:58 AM:

Great Work. That's cool you were number #1. When's the next race?

There's another 5k May 3. I am there.

knifey

posted: 4/20/2008 at 8:58 PM

You're #1! You're #1! Big grin

Congrats!

waytogo

posted: 4/20/2008 at 9:07 PM

Okay--the official results were just posted online, and it shows that I came in at 29:43. I did start out near the back, but we weren't wearing chips--just bibs with a perforated strip that they tore off when we crossed the finish line. Was there some way they were accounting for the difference?

Ennay

A Saucy Wench

posted: 4/20/2008 at 9:14 PM

Not usually, I've been in races where the finishing clock starts before (hopefully not after) the "gun" and they let it run, record everyones time and then put in the offset for everyone. Sometimes the finisher clock isnt the official time, sometimes the guy doing the recording has his own watch on the computer or however they are recording

I have become Death, the destroyer of electronic gadgets

"When I got too tired to run anymore I just pretended I wasnt tired and kept running anyway" - dd, age 7

Teresadfp

One day at a time

posted: 4/20/2008 at 9:15 PM

I've been running races for only a year, but I can't figure out how they come up with the "official" times. I just use my Garmin distance and time for my log. Close enough for me!

waytogo

posted: 4/20/2008 at 9:16 PM

So can I safely assume that the online result is my official time? (please say yes, please say yes, please say yes)

allout88

posted: 4/22/2008 at 12:27 PM

yes.

rochrunner

posted: 4/22/2008 at 12:30 PM

Congratulations! This is one race that you will always remember, no matter how many more you run. In my running "career", I can still remember my very first mile distance as well as my first marathon.

Doug, runnin' cycling in Rochester, MI

"Think blue, count two, and look for a red shoe"

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