First Race

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Cerrertonia Feb 2019 12:46pm, 19 Feb 2019 10,157 posts	0 Cerrertonia Plymouth Half Marathon 1996. Found the medal for it yesterday when decluttering. I remember the finish was a couple hundred metres of steep uphill onto the Hoe.
edison Feb 2019 12:57pm, 19 Feb 2019 870 posts	0 edison North Leinster Schools cross country in the winter of 1991
Badger Feb 2019 1:17pm, 19 Feb 2019 10,405 posts	0 Badger British 10k in 2005 was my second race and I endorse the reviews above 😁
Badger Feb 2019 1:17pm, 19 Feb 2019 10,406 posts	0 Badger British 10k in 2005 was my second race and I endorse the reviews above 😁
Fitz Feb 2019 1:17pm, 19 Feb 2019 2,070 posts	0 Fitz St Albans Half, June 2010, having started running in Jan 2009. My target was 2:15, clearly too conservative as I got 1:52. I met a guy from work (experienced runner) at the start, and I was ahead of him until the the last mile where he cruised past me looking really relaxed and taunting me, while I gasped my way to the finish line. Bastard!
Badger Feb 2019 1:17pm, 19 Feb 2019 10,407 posts	0 Badger Second so I get to post it twice, right?
LazyDaisy Feb 2019 1:20pm, 19 Feb 2019 25,759 posts	0 LazyDaisy If we disregard Race for Life, (I did the 5k annually then the 10k one year) it would have been the Linda Franks 4 mile (as it was then, now it's a 5 mile.) In retrospect I'm amazed I did a club race full of 'proper' runners before I'd even plucked up enough courage to join a club! I won a bottle of wine in the post-race raffle, joined the club that put on the race and haven't looked back since
Surrey Phil Feb 2019 1:21pm, 19 Feb 2019 2,881 posts	0 Surrey Phil Croydon Fun Run (5 miles) as a 13 year old. I'd never run more than two miles prior to that as our training sessions included a stopping point where our less quick team mates could catch us up. A group of used it as a warm-up for a cross country team event a few weeks later which we won surprisingly comfortably especially as we could even have entered in a lower age category.
Wriggling Snake Feb 2019 1:31pm, 19 Feb 2019 21,406 posts	0 Wriggling Snake I found joining a club hard, I thought Cirencester AC were all fast, I am sure it is the moniker AC that did it.
Meglet Feb 2019 1:33pm, 19 Feb 2019 20,053 posts	0 Meglet 2005 me would find it incredible that not only do I run, I enjoy it and have completed two marathons, and am a member of both a running club and cycle club! Even the 2008 me that ran that first race would probably be amazed I kept at it.