RunningAHEAD - Topic: Your age at your first marathon?

waytogo

posted: 6/26/2008 at 8:23 AM

If you have run one (or more), how old were you when you ran your first?

Ennay

A Saucy Wench

posted: 6/26/2008 at 8:25 AM

34

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

mainrun

posted: 6/26/2008 at 8:33 AM

37

Books I Have Read

Last Race: Portland Maine Half Marathon October 5 2014

jeffdonahue

posted: 6/26/2008 at 8:34 AM

30

BostonRnr

posted: 6/26/2008 at 8:48 AM

I will be 46 when I run my first one (Marine Corp) this fall.

Phidippides

posted: 6/26/2008 at 8:51 AM

I ran one ---- I was 32 ---- after a long lay off I am now 56 and training for another.........

Champions are made when no one is watching

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rectumdamnnearkilledem

posted: 6/26/2008 at 9:07 AM

Assuming all goes as planned I will be 35 when I first toe the line. Smile

Getting the wind knocked out of you is the only way to

remind your lungs how much they like the taste of air.

~ Sarah Kay

Daddyo

Go Pre!

posted: 6/26/2008 at 9:07 AM

39 (last year)

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BadDawg

posted: 6/26/2008 at 9:07 AM

45 (hard to believe it was less than a year ago, seems much longer than that)

E.J.
Greater Lowell Road Runners
Cry havoc and let slip the dawgs of war!

May the road rise to meet you, may the wind be always at your back, may the sun shine warm upon your SPF30, may the rains fall soft upon your sweat-wicking hat, and until you hit the finish line may The Flying Spaghetti Monster hold you in the hollow of His Noodly Appendage.

Dave23