PR Question (Read 1491 times)

A PB training is just a fast training run, we can never know our true potential unless we race with or against others. To me racing on your own equates to having sex on your own, now isn't there a word for that?

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Alrighty, then. I personally don't even consider all PR's run in races to really be PR's. Example: I've never raced an 8k (or 5-miler). So, if I find me an 8k to run this weekend, and I run all-fricking out, I've got me an 8k PR, right? Well, technically yes, but I wouldn't count it -- I'd check that "Exclude from PR" box that Eric included on the site. Why? Because right now, the average pace that I could blast an 8k at would probably be slower than the pace of my 25k PR from 19 years ago. So it's not in the same league as my other times. Now, as we get older, we make adjustments. Maybe I'll start counting Masters PRs once I hit 40. It's up to the user. In my opinion, a PR should: 1) be an all-out best effort 2) preferably, it should be in a race. I count any track PR as a PR, whether it's a race or not, because a track is a track. But I probably would never count anything else. Besides, I'm not gonna go out and try running a 10k solo time trial anytime soon. And since I'm so much slower now than my PR's, this is something I don't have to worry about. If I ever get fast enough to approach any of my PR's again, I'll be racing all the damn time to have a crack at them.

Don't let this thread get boring again. More elitist snarky screeds, please.

OK, how about the races you run where you blow away some long-standing, but shorter, PR. Do you count the new PR you ran that was part of the longer race, or leave the old one? Example, for those confused. YOu run a 1/2 marathon in 1:40 (all out effort). Two-three months later, you run a marathon in 2:59, with the first half in 1:30 and the 2nd half in 1:29. Do you now count the 1;29 as your new 1/2 marathon PR? Or is the 1:40 still your PR, since that was the best you did in a 1/2 marathon race? And, if you count the new 1:29 as your PR, how do you enter it on RA without screwing up your mileage totals?

To me racing on your own equates to having sex on your own, now isn't there a word for that?

For me it was two words: High School

I think it was a PR!

Priceless. But forever what will you do if it was Tanya? Designate it as a race or what? I'm so lost as what to do since I too have experienced a fastest time on a course of mine, but I can't save it as a PR. How are you others handling this tumultuous conundrum?

You don't. Something doesn't have to be displayed in your RA running log to exist.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!

Are you God?! Seriously...you know EVERYTHING! Wait...that means you know what I did in the shower this morning....damn.

(unshun) I have the thread for you. (shun)

Neither. Your new PR is 1:30. You can't count the 2nd half of a marathon as a half-marathon PR, because you had the advantage of a running start. There is a similar rule in swimming, where only the lead-off leg of a relay is eligible for world records, because the other legs have the advantage of anticipating the start. Take that, bitches!

Somehow, I think the advantage of a flying start is negligible for a 13-mile distance. Unless you're trying to count a split as a new PR by less than a second. And...it's your PR. You can count it how ever you want. WHAT NOW, BITCHES?