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
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.
1:04 is a mediocre time so nobody is really going to care.
It's way above average though, A good local runner, probably wins some races that do not offer prize money.
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.
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 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
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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.
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