What age did you hit your PRs and how long had you been training for?

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Running since 18. Started competitions (and semi-serious training) at 25. Now 35. All PBs set between 29.5 and 30.5 years old.

10k: 33:22

15k: 51:35

21.1k: 1:14:25

42.2k: 2:39:06

All done on very little training. Not more than one hour per day on average for the last weeks before the marathon (less before). Well under one hour for the others. But a few months of regular training in all cases.

800-2:05 on pool running alone, age 20

1500-4:20, age 39

mile-4:39.8, age 19

3k-9:20, age 39

5k-16:04, age 39

10k-33:38, age 45

10M-55:48, age 45

1/2 marathon-1:14:17, age 39

marathon-2:38, age 45

hoping to still knock down the mile, 5k, and half marathon pr's in the spring at 45/46 and the marathon pr next fall.

53. 9 years.

PR'ed in 5K, mile, 800, 400 and 100 last year.

Took me 6 years for my dreams to become reality. The road to the top started at 17. Achieved excellence at 23, running lifetime pr's in the 1500, 5000, and marathon at 23.

I guess I'll answer my own question as well (more clearly):

22, 3 years running

PRs at every distance I've run each year since I started running

Started running in 1977 at the age of 22. Set all of my track PR's (220, 440, 880, Mile, 2 Mile) in 1984. Marathon PR in 1991. Just for you younger guys looking ahead 20 or 30 years: you will get slower - there is no way around that - but you can still run as fast as your body allows - and it feels about the same as it did when I was younger - you get tired at the finish, then feel good about the run a little bit later. It's still a lot of fun - that part hasn't changed a bit.

1991 is an a long time of running to still PR at the marathon @bowbridge, thats awesome. had u run the marathon a bunch/was this a faster course or had u just trained better?

Started running maybe 2 or 3 months before turning 16... stopped running about a month after turning 19 (got a injured and I decided not run again)... started running again at 21... stopped again at 22 (got injured and needed surgery)... started again at 23 and been running since:

PRs:

400m: 52 (age 18)

800m: 2:01 (one day after turning 18)

1600m: 4:28 (age 19)

3200m: 9:37 (on my 18th birthday)

5k: 15:23 (age 18) ... ran 15:53 at age 22.

10k: 33:40 (age 19)

12 mile long run: 70:02 (age 18)

I'm 25 now, but I haven't competed due to a few things (mainly full time work and full time school). I've been training, but not the capacity I did in high school and college (could probably hit around 16:20s now)... but I think if I get back to it I can PR again, mainly for the 5k and 10k.

It was the summer of '67. I had just reached the ripe age of 76, having trained my entire life for the beer mile. However, I had a last minute decision: for the first time in my life, I'd run the mile without the beer. I lined up at the start line and blasted a 3:37.09 mile in a small village in eastern Serbia. Then I woke up.

Randy Oldman wrote:

53. 9 years.

PR'ed in 5K, mile, 800, 400 and 100 last year.

What times? Not that it isn't impressive regardless.

Went out for track at 17-yrs-old. 4 years later at 21-yrs my personal bests:

3:46 (1500)

sub-8 minutes (3000)

sub 14 (5000)

sub 29 (10,000)

After college I quit running to pursue a career because my parents said it was time to stop playing at running and move on. Yes, I was an idiot.

Began running at age 13 and ran 5:30 for the mile.

My lifetime 5000 pr (13:38) age 19

My lifetime 10,000 pr (28:33) age 23

Kept going until age 26 but never got back to where I was at age 20.

George Atlas wrote:

Began running at age 13 and ran 5:30 for the mile.

My lifetime 5000 pr (13:38) age 19

My lifetime 10,000 pr (28:33) age 23

Kept going until age 26 but never got back to where I was at age 20.

Pretty cool. Just out of curiosity, did you keep training at the same intensity?

Yes and even trained with both more intensity and volume when I was 24-26. Just stopped improving.

Started track at age 13 in the 7th grade. Started xc and actually training in the offseason as a Sophomore in hs. Prs:

5k- 1512 at age 21

10k- 3145 at age 21

5 mile road race- 2558 at age 20

Had a rough last few years of running. Basically stopped after college. I had tried a twice again after college but never raced.

33-37. 20 plus years of running in there. Everything just clicked in those years.

I started seriously running and training while my mom was in her second trimester with me during her freshman year at ASU in 2001. I came out of the womb Aqua jogging there in the birthing pool and was recruited right away by NOP where I PR'd immediately in the 200m by age 1. With subsequent weight lifting I managed to take my 800m to a PR of 4:17:03 with the front crawl during the WC and hammered the WR that day. For a couple years it went dark, drugs and alcohol ruined my good training years but by age 9 I was unstoppable again by using a then experimental and legal PED that is now used on turning lab rats into tiger testosterone for the Chinese underground pharmaceutical market that my father was producing... Anyways, age 14 now and most recent PR was the 1500 4:19:01 standard run at age 13. Been training for close to 15 years.

I ran my 5k pr of 15:52 when I was 16. Started running at 14.

Injured and quit before I hit 20.

Started back at 37.

Closest I got at 39 was 17:00.

Work injury at 40.

Started back at 44.

Closest I got at 45 was 18:03.

Turning 50 in a week.

Hoping to get under 18:30.