How many races have you done?

Over 200 tris; a lot more if you count single sport races.

If you let swimmers count each event in meets as a race the numbers get insanely large.

Personally I don't aim for a certain number.  I could easily do a race or two every week if the goal was just to finish.  When I race, I want to RACE!

I do know a guy out here in NorCal who has done over 500 tris, Ken Hale.  I remember it was a big deal when he hit #500 last year.  Still see him at almost every race I do. 

16 multisport events.

Counting in single-sport running and swimming endurance events ... can't count. Too many.

I'm feeling kinda sub-par in this crowd: 4 triathlons and one duathlon. I could count a marathon, but it was the Bataan Memorial Death March and I walked it; I don't really count it as a "race" per se.

I'd like to do 4 or 5 events of some kind or another each year. Not a fixed-in-stone number, just something to give me goals.

1 sprintas a relay not included below since I did 1 leg.

5 Oly's  and 11 full sprints.  (One oly and one sprint each turned du on race day due to weather)

More than I would even care to count. Really. I did my first in 1984 (after being a one-sport runner), did one a year until 1988, and then went pretty much full time for several years, doing almost one a weekend throughout the season, and sometimes two in a weekend. At some point I backed out of tri and got into bike racing, ostensibly to put less time into training and racing... Yeah, right. Many years of more bike races than I can count (often upwards of 60 events a season)...

Took some time off, gained weight from lots of weight training and eating for "bulking". Got back into tri, and since then have done at least a couple dozen events, though in the past few years I've only done a very few events a year.

In all that, the longest I've gone is a half-IM distance, but most of my races (and by far the type of events I prefer) are sprints.

57 - that was fun to add up!

8 sprints
6 olympics
8 half ironmans
2 ironmans
1 aquathon
3 5Ks
5 10Ks
11 half marathons
2 marathons
1 ultra marathon
10 odd distance races (2-mile, 10-mile, relay, etc.) 

I ran my tenth Triathlon yesterday and posted a new "PW" (personal worst) in the process.
I, too, ran my first Tri in Sept 2010.  All have been Sprints except for one Olympic distance. 

1=HIM

5=oly

4=sprints

1=ultramarathon

1=marathons

2=Half marathon

?= 5K's

Me? A handful of 5 km races, none of them serious, most of them in costume, all in the past two years.

1 - half marathon (November 2011)

1 - 4 mile fun run (April 2012)

1 - Tough Mudder Vermont (May 2012)

1 - Super Sprint* (July 2012)

Just in case anyone wonders if there are beginners on beginner triathlete, here I am!

*ETA - Super Sprint meaning it was really short: 1/4 mile swim, 8 mile ride, 5 km run.

11 multi-sport events: six tris, four aquathlons (swim-run), and one duathlon

sprint distance: 4

Olympic distance: 5

half-ironman distance: 1

nonstandard distance: 1 (29 mile bike plus half-marathon; my snowed-out first HIM attempt)

Run-only and swim-only races--TNTC (too numerous to count, like bacteria in the rivers here) I think I've run ten marathons. (There was one event I did for several years; some years the half, and some the full. I'd have to check.) One was a forced DNF (missed time cutoff in an elite race) at 25K. Probably 5K's more than anything else, since that was the distance for HS and college cross-country. A couple of DIY ultra trail runs (50-60 km).

No target number. Until I can't, or don't want to, race anymore. Or I can't afford entry fees. Definitely wouldn't stop after reaching an arbitary number. It's like that old Nike ad, "There is no finish line." It's like smoking, only healthier. When you start young, you're addicted for life.

22 Triathlons

2 Half Marathons

3  4-mile bridge runs

Numerous 5K's

Guess I don't get the question about having "target" number of races.  What do you do when you get to that number?  Take up golf?  Go back to the couch?

I enjoy doing races, but the real reward for me is the training and the healthy lifestyle.

Mark 

6 Sprints

1 Olympic

1 Half-Marathon

1 Mile swim

5 5K's

This reminds me, I need to sign up for another race!!!

19 Tris, 5 Du's, 1 Half-Marathon.

First race of any kind was April 2011.  Totals since that time:

5k - 1

Half Marathon - 6

Duathlon - 1

Triathlon Sprint - 4

Triathlon Oly - 1

Triathlon Relay - 1

Currently training for my first marathon this December.  Have another half marathon in October.  Plans for 2013 include a few sprints, a few Oly, and hopefully a HIM.

2 -5k's

5 - Sprint distance tri's

Hundreds of GS ski races  (Winter stuff)

All at Super clyde weight..!

4 Sprints

1 Marathon

1 Half Marthon

some 5Ks

Lots of bike events if I count what I did when I raced bikes in High School and College.

I don't see any number as a destination, but some of them might be cause for a cheer.  It's kind of like when some of us on a log run say "woo hoo! mile 10!!"  It's not that it's a particularly special mile, it's just a nice round number and a reason to cheer ourselves on.

I've done atleast 5 5K's

I did my first sprint triathlon in July of 2010. Since then I've done 6 of them. 

Doing my first olympic distance in October and looking for HIM's for next spring.

Boy, this is my third season racing, so here's my total:

Full marathons: 3, with the fourth only 3 weeks away

Half marathons: 4

5k's: 3

Organized bike ride: 1 75 miler

One Ragnar Relay

One mud run

Sprint Tri's: 3, the 4th this weekend

Olympic Distance Tris:1

So that is 17 total, with #18 this weekend, and #19 in a few more weeks.

Pales in comparison to some of you guys though!  I aim now for one event a month, March through about October.  It keeps me motivated and training. I already have a tentive 2013 race schedule

In just the last 6 years:

4 Sprint Tris

2 Olympic Tris

10 Marathons

14 Half Marathons

3 Long distance Relays (Ragnar CO last weekend)

5K & 10Ks - Too many to count

As of yesterday, 2 sprint triathlons. 

A one-mile open water swim.

4 5ks

1 Master's swim meet

6 sprints

2 olys

numerous varied distance and terrain running races

Multisport, off the top of my head...maybe more than 40; fewer than 100? I'd have to add them up.

Single-sport events, hundreds and hundreds. I've been running for 30+ years, and there have been years in there where I raced most every weekend.