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Boy takes wrong turn on 5K race, ends up winning 10K race
Posted on 10/1/19 at 9:28 am
Posted on 10/1/19 at 9:28 am
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He took a wrong turn, but he still ended up a winner.
A 9-year-old boy wound up winning a 10K race in Minnesota last month after he missed a turn on a separate 5K race and ended up on the much longer course.
"I was thinking, ‘This is a really long 5K. This is not as usual,’" Kade Lovell of St. Cloud told FOX9.
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"A lady told me to keep going straight. So I kept going straight," he told the newspaper.
When he didn't cross the finish line of the 5K, his mother, Heather Lovell, said she thought her son was having an off day. But when he didn't show up, her concerns grew and she started driving along the 3.11-mile route looking for him.
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Heather Lovell said she was "bawling" when no one else saw her son, as she asked anyone she could find if they had seen her son. She was eventually able to track him down after a spectator called her brother-in-law, who was in the 10K race, to let him know there was a "little kid who was running really well" in the 10K.
When Kade's mother found him, he was all alone and she told FOX9 she thought he had come in last place in the 10K.
But race organizers told Kade's mother he finished in first place. She thought they meant in his age group, but he was actually first place overall. He finished in just over 48 minutes — a minute faster than the 40-year-old woman who ended up in second place.
"I accidentally won it, and they've been practicing for a long time. I just was really surprised I did that," Kade told FOX9.
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Does not happen everyday that a kid finished 10 km run in 48 mins while thinking he is running 5 km
. I was lucky to do 5 km in under 33. Kudos to the boy!!
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Posted on 10/1/19 at 9:29 am to Bamboozles
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But race organizers told Kade's mother he finished in first place. She thought they meant in his age group, but he was actually first place overall. He finished in just over 48 minutes — a minute faster than the 40-year-old woman who ended up in second place.
I need to run in this 10k
Posted on 10/1/19 at 9:35 am to KosmoCramer
I can believe that the woman ran the wrong way, though, and this kid was told by another woman to just keep going straight....
Posted on 10/1/19 at 9:41 am to Bamboozles
Baller
Posted on 10/1/19 at 9:41 am to Bamboozles
So if he took a wrong turn and ended up in a 10k, does that mean he cheated and skipped a part of the 10k by entering in the middle of it? Or was the 10k just an extension of the 5k?
Posted on 10/1/19 at 9:42 am to Bamboozles
Was he trying to impress a woman even though he was out of shape?
Posted on 10/1/19 at 9:43 am to RebelRye
I assume the 5k and the 10k both followed the same initial route and separated at the point where he was told to go straight instead of turning
It's pretty common for races to do this
It's pretty common for races to do this
Posted on 10/1/19 at 9:46 am to Bamboozles
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she started driving along the 3.11-mile route looking for him.
1. Picks up kid at mile 2.
2. Drops him off a mile 4.
3. Profit
Posted on 10/1/19 at 9:48 am to Bamboozles
That’s an excellent time for a 10K for a nine year old 
Posted on 10/1/19 at 9:50 am to Bamboozles
48 is good for a 9 yr old...but he probably should be playing soccer instead.
Posted on 10/1/19 at 9:50 am to Salmon
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But race organizers told Kade's mother he finished in first place. She thought they meant in his age group, but he was actually first place overall. He finished in just over 48 minutes — a minute faster than the 40-year-old woman who ended up in second place.
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I need to run in this 10k
No kidding, I could actually win a medal!
Good for that kid though.
Posted on 10/1/19 at 9:53 am to Bamboozles
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I accidentally won it, and they've been practicing for a long time. I just was really surprised I did that," Kade told FOX9.
What a low key brutal takedown
I like this guys style
Posted on 10/1/19 at 9:57 am to Bamboozles
ahhh to be young again where you can just run for the sake of running....
Posted on 10/1/19 at 9:57 am to Bamboozles
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Kade
Checks out.
Posted on 10/1/19 at 10:00 am to GetCocky11
My son won a local mile Running with the Bulls race last year, and I was proud of him...until I saw this photo.
WTF, old arse ladies running in the SAS nurse shoes???
WTF, old arse ladies running in the SAS nurse shoes???
This post was edited on 10/1/19 at 10:04 am
Posted on 10/1/19 at 10:17 am to Gaston
Well the faster you run the more energy you save, so the kid shoulda prolly done a 1/2 marathon instead.
Posted on 10/1/19 at 10:19 am to Bamboozles
That’s a pretty shitty time for a 10K
Posted on 10/1/19 at 10:27 am to Gaston
Need more pics of the blonde referee.
Posted on 10/1/19 at 10:29 am to Bamboozles
Another example of white male privilege..
Posted on 10/1/19 at 11:15 am to BabyTac
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That’s a pretty shitty time for a 10K
48 minutes is actually a solid middle of the pack time for a community 10k.
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