I tell people I my HM pr is 1:04 instead of 1:04:50

It's way above average though, A good local runner, probably wins some races that do not offer prize money.

Similar for me. Everyone says I ran 2 flat, but I was nearly a second and a half per mile slower than that

You should just loosen up your rounding error a little more and tell them you've run 1 hour.

i ran 4:21.9 1600m in high school and i mentioned to one of our asst coaches "i ran a 4:22" and he pulled me aside and said, "NO, you ran a 4:21.. i don't care if you ran a 4:21.9999 that's a 4:21" & i've always stuck w that logic ever since. true story unlike the op

You might as well tell them its a 20 minute 5k. Nobody knows how fast that is.

If I ran a marathon in two hours and 35 seconds. I'm telling people I ran a two hour marathon. That's just me.

Mate mate mate mate. You're doing it all wrong. Just say a bit under 1:05. I've run 2:52:59 and I just tell people right under 2:53. Regardless, most people are never running a marathon nor getting under 3 hours, so they'll be sufficiently impressed.

Saying 1:04:55 in a casual conversation would have been a little weird.

You’re directionally correct, but didn’t take it far enough. A 1:04 guy (even 1:04-high) likely wins almost any road race without prize money that they enter, barring those 1-2 races in some market that everyone competitive uses as a rust-buster or benchmark, and likely wins and certainly podiums in a lot of the local and smaller regional road races they enter with a nominal amount of prize money (your $1000-$500-$250-$150-$100 half marathon, or your $500-$250-$100 10k/8k/4 mile/5k). Way above average doesn’t do it justice—1:10 for a guy or 1:18 for a gal is way above average. 1:04 (again, even 1:04 high) is getting close to true elite. Don’t let Letsrun goggles make you sell short how competitive that time is.

I know the feeling I always tell people my mile PR is 3:64.35 instead of 4:04.35. It's my way of being a sub 4 miler.

Did you tell them your bench press was 100lbs when its actually 95lbs.?

That’s ok. I tell people my 29:08 10000m from 2003 is a 28:45 (super shoe converted).

Actually nobody has asked what my 10000m pr is because nobody cares. But if they do…

You laugh but to the general public jts the same thing.

just like regular people think a 10.1 and a 10.9 hundred are the same. They don’t know it’s good until it’s “in the 9’s” kind of crazy how little it actually matters in the grand scheme of things. But I like the competitive bubble where every single little bit matters. Most people don’t care.

I think it's fair to say you have a 1:04.

That's the nice thing about round-number thresholds...and also the tough thing.

When I first ran 1:15:55 for a half, I could quite honestly say my PB was "a 1:15."

Now that I have got down to 1:15:08, my PB is still "1:15." :_(

Garbage.

I live in one of the most competitive running cities in North America, and 1:04 is top 10 if not top 5 of thousands in all of the big half marathons locally.

These are being won in 1:00 and 1:01 times, so don't tell me they're bad races.

The top female at a race that was supposed to be a 5k today but was actually closer to 6k was through the 5k in somewhere in the 20:xx range and she got a garmin watch for it.

I forgot to quote the post about winning races with no prize money

Agreed. Also, nice flex OP.

So many variables to distance running that can influence times. With the half & full it makes sense to say 1:04 & 2:17 instead of 1:04:59 or 2:17:59.

You are technically incorrect. game over end of story. 1:04 is what you tell people to look better than you actually are. (not that I haven't done this myself...but I always strive to be 100% technically correct.) Don't lie to yourself. You should say that you ran 1:05. always state things that make you look weaker than you actually are.

"I tell people I my HM pr is 1:04 instead of 1:04:50"

Interesting. I don't tell people my HM PR at all.