Who here has a PR that is mind-numbingly close to a time barrier?

I have a great friend who for years had pb's of 800 2.00.0

1500 4.00.0

5000 15.00.7

he eventually broke 2 mins but never improved on the other two.

znot me wrote:

I have a great friend who for years had pb's of 800 2.00.0

1500 4.00.0

5000 15.00.7

he eventually broke 2 mins but never improved on the other two.

Is his name Shane Rowbury?

Easy wrote:

You would probably be happy you ran a 15:00 PB. minutes and seconds are really just a measure we came up with, no need to bother with time barriers if you know you did your best.

I hope this is sarcasm. What a load of crap. Get out and train and always try and get better. If you do your best and fail, keep trying and even if you don't get where you were trying to get, at least you know you never settled.

But being proud and feeling satisfied is for hobby joggers.

Another lunatic. How long do you run events between pr's, a couple years? Unless you just forget how to run, how could your pr's be that far apart and be that way so often? Do you just jog, set a pr, and then try the next time. Jesus, either you really sucked at first and got to a decent time through a couple of these 30 second pr's, or you are an Olympian. A couple 30 second pr boosts would really help your time I imagine. You just took a 15 minute 5k guy down to a 13 with a couple pr's in that event. Can't imagine you run anything shorter than that with those 30 second pr's or else you would have a world record unless you were a pretty big scrub at first.

Oh man, just today I ran 20:18 for 5K! So close, right? The worst part is, I would have made $10,000 for a 19:59.

Well, actually, the worst part is that I only ran a quarter of a mile of the race and missed a sub 20 because I really suck at doing math in my head! Shoulda had a pen and paper out there though it was pretty cold so I'm not sure my fingers could have manipulated them well enough to perform the proper calculations.

LOL!

One of my old friends ran 4:00 a ton of times in college. More frustratingly, he had a 1500 PR of 3:40.xx and split under 4 on a few DMRs. Never got under for full mile.

I'm very close to the two hour marathon barrier, I only have to drop 41 more minutes and I'm there.

in high school i was a distance guy who dabbled in 400h in duel meets and championships to try to score some points. i ran under 61 seven or eight times and my pr is 60.1 from 11th grade. i'm a senior in college now and we don't have a track team but i kinda wanna train for that sub-60 this spring at an open meet.

When I was 39 I tried to get under 5 for the mile. I ran 5:00.8, and was so bummed I never tried again, which was stupid. I would have gotten it the next time, but I didn't do it.

On the other side, for years I had the Buffalo-area record for breaking 3 hours in the marathon by the smallest margin: 2:59:56.

My last time trial a couple years ago I ran 6:02 for full mile and was at 6:00 at 1600m.

This is a great thread lol. Not anymore, but my Junior year of high school I ran a 56.99 400. Phew...

It took me a year to break 5 and I ran countless races trying to do so. It was all I was focused on and I ended up creating a mental barrier for myself - I had convinced myself I couldn't ever break 5. That haunted me for a long time and it really prohibited my running, but thankfully one day I ran 4:59.8 and the world was lifted off my shoulders. Since then, I've had no problem whatsoever breaking 5, even on terrible days.

never could wrote:

It took me a year to break 5 and I ran countless races trying to do so. It was all I was focused on and I ended up creating a mental barrier for myself - I had convinced myself I couldn't ever break 5. That haunted me for a long time and it really prohibited my running, but thankfully one day I ran 4:59.8 and the world was lifted off my shoulders. Since then, I've had no problem whatsoever breaking 5, even on terrible days.

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My road 10k PR is 32:00 with no decimals because the timing company wasn't precise enough. I clocked 31:59.90 on my watch and paused it 1 or 2 steps after crossing, so they probably rounded it up but I'll never know officially

slam wrote:

I ran 4:00.01 and 1:50.01

Talk about a sticky situation.

Dang. You couldn't find 2 seconds at the end of a marathon?

oh so close wrote:

I don't have one oh-so-close, but I have a 15:12 5k that I tried for a couple years to get to sub 15. I also tried a few times to get a 2:35 marathon down to sub 2:30. And those aren't really even the agonizingly close type of PRs I'm thinking talking about.

top 20 list at my college ends with 25:59 and I ran 26:01 as a 5th year. That was rather disappointing even though I PR'd by 21 seconds.

I almost broke the speed of sound but topped out 765 mph.

blegh wrote:

My road 10k PR is 32:00 with no decimals because the timing company wasn't precise enough. I clocked 31:59.90 on my watch and paused it 1 or 2 steps after crossing, so they probably rounded it up but I'll never know officially

The convention for road race times is recording results in whole seconds.

I had a friend who ran 3:00:00 in a marathon twice. This was over a period of five years and about 10 marathons. A couple years later he ran 2:58:XX to set his PR.