# Ran my first 50k yesterday! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 16, 2010, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ran-my-first-50k-yesterday/529139 "2010-02-16T01:07:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![si\_blakely](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@si\_blakely](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/si_blakely)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2010, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ran-my-first-50k-yesterday/529139/21 "2010-02-17T13:47:10Z")
> [@lorene](#): > > :smack: I\* just\* figured out your username. BQ, right? I’m a runner, and I live in Boston; you’d think I’d know that. For those with less familiarity with the Boston Marathon - the qualifying time for the 40-44 male age group is 3:20:59 - **3:20:59 or bust** , I doff my cap to you, sir. > [@lorene](#): > > Great job, OP. I’ve a friend who does the mile-for-every-year birthday runs. If that isn’t an encouragement to live fast and die young, I don’t know what is. 😉 Si ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Onimous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ea5d25/32.png) [@Ann\_Onimous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Onimous)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2010, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ran-my-first-50k-yesterday/529139/22 "2010-02-17T15:24:08Z")
I am in awe of you. Many congratulations. Wow. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2010, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ran-my-first-50k-yesterday/529139/23 "2010-02-17T15:24:13Z")
> [@si\_blakely](#): > > For those with less familiarity with the Boston Marathon - the qualifying time for the 40-44 male age group is 3:20:59 - **3:20:59 or bust** , I doff my cap to you, sir.If that isn’t an encouragement to live fast and die young, I don’t know what is. 😉 When my brother was in that age group he ran a 3:21:00 trying to qualify. They let him in anyway. 🙂 You have an extra second. I knew what your username meant as soon as I saw it. ---
**Author:** ![lezlers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/258eb7/32.png) [@lezlers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lezlers)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2010, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ran-my-first-50k-yesterday/529139/24 "2010-02-17T19:29:58Z")
Wow, I thought that was a typo too! Congrats, OP, that’s amazing! I was training for a marathon last summer but got injured after a 10 mile training run. I’m signing up for a half marathon training group this week, training for a half at the end of May. Slow and steady! You are an inspiration. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Valgard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/7feea3/32.png) [@Valgard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Valgard)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2010, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ran-my-first-50k-yesterday/529139/25 "2010-02-17T20:07:49Z")
Must be coincidence but registration for an actual organized trail run that I’ve heard a lot of good things about opened on Monday, so feeling all excited from Sunday I just took the plunge and have signed up for my first “real event”, the Dick Collins Fire Trail 50. For those who know the East Bay it’s a 50 mile round trip from Lake Chabot to Tilden Park and back. I’m quite familiar with a little more than half of the trails and there’s plenty of time between now and October to get in some runs along the rest. This is also a qualifying run for the Western States Endurance race but I think I’ll ratchet up my lunacy in small steps 😃 [http://www.firetrails50.net/](http://www.firetrails50.net/) A few years ago I would never have thought that I’d do something like this. It’s amazing how much we find that we are capable of when we push our boundaries a bit at a time. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2010, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ran-my-first-50k-yesterday/529139/26 "2010-02-17T21:03:19Z")
Pikers, the lot of them. Try [The Barkley](http://blog.washingtonpost.com/why-we-compete/2007/04/curiosity_1.html). You might not finish, but at least you’ll be miserable. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ran-my-first-50k-yesterday/529139.md?page=1)