Slowest Winning Times for Races

30/05/2006 at 09:24

All the races I do seem to have certain zone finishing times

5k 16m 30
10k 33m
5m 25m 30
1/2m 1hr 7-15

Just wondered if anyone knows of any small time races in some little known part of the country where winning times are a bit slower!!

Slower than my pbs of
5k 18:18
10k 38:27
5m 30:59
10m 1:04:13
1/2m 1:25:46

would be nice!!

Muttley

30/05/2006 at 09:27

My strategy is the play the waiting game. If I keep running long enough, one day I'll win the 90+ supervets title by default.

Stevie G .

30/05/2006 at 09:29

i have 2 strategies

a)at 24 realise that if i up the mileage largely over years my times will come down maybe up to local race competing standards

b)find a really small time low key event

sprinting toffee

30/05/2006 at 09:47

you just concentrate on the world cup for now stevie!!! i was thinking along the same lines to tell you the truth, found some 10k in huddesfield or somewhere where only 40 people entered last year and winner did it in 37! but ive entered a quick local one instead

Pantman

30/05/2006 at 10:15

I won the Hildenborough 10 this year near Tonbridge, Kent in 60min and change.
That's as slow a 10M win as I've heard of!

Stevie G .

30/05/2006 at 10:17

that is sloooooow pantman

well...to quantify

a)for you
b)to wina 10miler!!

i'm still on 1hr 4!

the guy who ran that race (maidenehad 10miler) won it in a blistering 48mins!!

Have a word!

someone said that was the quickest time recorded this year..and he literally won it by a mile..the next finisher being 5mins behind!

Xerxes

30/05/2006 at 10:17

Hey Muttley, I hope you're training, as I have embarked on a 50 year training plan to beat the Marathon 90+ world record. I'm actually two weeks in, and things are looking good!

rossh

30/05/2006 at 11:21

Organise your own race.

Don't tell anyone else about it.

You're sure to win.

Blackers

30/05/2006 at 11:21

Ah, an unashamed, self confessed pot hunter. Fair play to you!

This is a difficult game to play - once you get to the "pretty good" times, and you look at last years' results and think "oooh, I could do a top 3 there" then some other pot hunters turn up who are just a minute or two quicker!

I have a conspiracy theory. Say there are 10 guys in the average county that can chalk up a 32 minute 10k, for example. They all seem to have each others phone numbers, because they spread themselves very thinly accross ALL the 10ks in the county, or there abouts, over the course of the year, thus relegating us mid-30 minuters to the "also rans". OK, I can understand that they're going to hit the county leauge circuit events, but please, The Mrs Miggins Pie Shop Fete run on an August bank holiday?! Shoooo - go on - bugger off - get back to your big town event with all your peers.....

Damn them, that's what I say!

Blackers

30/05/2006 at 11:31

Oh, and I have identified a dead cert. It's an off-road, 400 finisher, half marathon where my time from the reading half mara would get me an easy top 3 place, even if you add 3 to 4 minutes for the lack of tarmac

Ha ha ha - that pot is mine. All mine I say... you hear me?

What? You want me to tell you where it is? You gotta be joking!!!

Stevie G .

30/05/2006 at 11:34

pt hunter..i like it!

i did read about a half marathon where about 100 people did it and the winning time was 1hr 45

i'm goning to furiously find out where it is and hold up that trophy aloft!!!

Blackers

30/05/2006 at 11:37

[...starts trawling any UK results services that can be found ..... must... win .... must .....]

B (Ewok`s Mate)

30/05/2006 at 11:39

Alderney Half is won in around about your PB.

It is hilly though.

Duck Girl

pirate

30/05/2006 at 11:50

nah. What you need to do is have a sex change, then compete in some less-popular discipline where there's even fewer girls around.
I'm guaranteed a top-13 placing in the Ladies at TLD, even if i just finish :¬)

No Toes

30/05/2006 at 11:51

We often get "ringers" who turn up at Wycombe half-marathon. A couple of years ago some bloke won it who had won the "Race the Horse" race a few weeks earlier. The elite runners at Wycombe (not me by a long way) must have been well and truly put out when he signed up on the day. I seem to recall he won it at a "canter"

B (Ewok`s Mate)

30/05/2006 at 11:52

Huw Lobb?

No Toes

30/05/2006 at 11:52

I am thinking of cutting of my nuts so that I can get into FLM on a GFA!

Duck Girl

pirate

30/05/2006 at 11:57

there _are_ other maras, you know.

Being in a weird category helps too - there isn't a BUSA league for anything above maras, but i bet i'd be well-placed in the BUSA ladies ultra league if such a thing existed :¬)

and i bet i'm the fastest dyspraxic runner at most of the stuff i enter - & i once got a prize for being the muddiest runner at a fell race :¬)

No Toes

30/05/2006 at 11:57

Here we go;

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/mid/3801177.stm

The previous year (2003) John Gregory won in about 1 hour 13.

Lobb won it in 1 hour 7.

MB.

30/05/2006 at 11:58

The women's corporate games age 30-39 category half marathon was won in about 3 and a half hours a couple of years ago. Two of our spectators noticed that no one else had entered that category so quickly put themselves down and walked round.
Corporate Games have since dropped the half marathon. :-)

I did a flat 10k a few years back that was won in 37 minutes. I managed a top 20 finish with 45 minutes.

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