What is your most memorable running moment?

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Derby Tup Aug 2021 5:08pm, 19 Aug 2021 51,439 posts	0 Derby Tup Some great pics. Scribbs you were flying!
Foxy Aug 2021 5:26pm, 19 Aug 2021 34,236 posts	0 Foxy great question - hard to pick just one but will go for finishing my first 10 in 10 @ Windermere in 2009.
swittle Aug 2021 7:47pm, 19 Aug 2021 78,559 posts	0 swittle MM - it's the feeling that counts! Foxy, I used to follow each runner's progress, and marvel that they weren't falling like flies!
compartmental Aug 2021 7:54pm, 19 Aug 2021 162 posts	0 compartmental There’s a few, but the most meaningful to me finishing my first race after chemo with my partner who gamely signed up for a half to support me in my come back despite hating running 😂 we sprinted it down the finishing straight together with with “eye of the tiger” blaring out from the speakers and the announcer cheering us on, just nipped in under 2:30. My slowest half ever but so much to be grateful for
swittle Aug 2021 7:56pm, 19 Aug 2021 78,561 posts	0 swittle ^ Great to read ^
macca 53 Aug 2021 8:07pm, 19 Aug 2021 29,097 posts	0 macca 53 I did my first marathon in 1981 (Pony British Marathon, after not getting in to that other one). It was much closer to home and started outside the Crest Hotel in Bolton. It only had about 5000 entries, but the first several miles was downhill heading towards Salford, which meant that when I reached the crest after which the hotel was named there was a sea of runners as far as the eye could see and suddenly a huge pile of grit got in my eyes 😭. Never had that rush of emotion at any race since......
Diogenes Aug 2021 8:24pm, 19 Aug 2021 62,229 posts	0 Diogenes My favourite running moment is a strange one. It happened on a school geography field trip when I was about 15 or 16. We’d trekked out to the Worm’s Head on the Gower Peninsular. When we started heading back something made me decide to run it. I wasn’t a keen runner then, I generally only ran if I was chasing a football, but I ran back however far it was over a narrow uneven trail in walking boots and never felt like stopping. One other boy followed me. We had to wait for a long time for the others.
Diogenes Aug 2021 8:28pm, 19 Aug 2021 62,230 posts	0 Diogenes I never thought I’d run all the way when I started but the further I went the better it got, Forrest Gump style.
macca 53 Aug 2021 8:39pm, 19 Aug 2021 29,099 posts	0 macca 53 [excellent story Dio]
EvilPixie Aug 2021 9:03pm, 19 Aug 2021 27,274 posts	0 EvilPixie ❤️ So glad I started thisKeep them coming it’s a real feel good thread