What are your PWs?

dukerdog wrote:

When you're over 40 this is easy:

Mile: my next race at this distance

5k: my next race at this distance

10k: my next race at this distance

Marathon: my next race at this distance

I'm well into my 40's and I'm still getting PR's. I run with several people in their 40's who are much faster than me, and they too are still getting PR's. We all started running later in life, but after many years of running, all of us are still getting faster. Young legs on older bodies.

dukerdog wrote:

When you're over 40 this is easy:

Mile: my next race at this distance

5k: my next race at this distance

10k: my next race at this distance

Marathon: my next race at this distance

I think this is also why so many college runners quit right after college (and why 20-29 age group often seems weak in road races). They lose their organized training routines, and know that they will only run slower in races with less focus. And they probably think, "What's the point?", even though they might be able to do well in local road races, it probably won't be up to their previously higher standards.

I find myself avoiding road races and all comer meets for the most part for this reason (although I didn't run in college). I went about 2.5 years without racing at all until a cute girl persuaded me to do a trail race with her. I won that race (and the cute girl won the women's), and hey, it was fun! That brought me back to racing, but I race mostly on trails these days, and the focus is on competing (winning, beating my friends), not on times. I only ponder doing road races when I round into good shape - say by being able to run with the 14:30/1:07 guy in a trail race.

Marathon - 3:40 (first, as a fat Gallowalker)

Half-marathon - 1:32 (runner for <1 year)

10M - 1:05 (Bitchin' course: Presidio 10-miler in SF)

12K - 1:01 (8 weeks after knee dislocation w/malaligned patella)

10.2K - 54:29 (12 years old, only race I ever ran in my first 30 years)

10K - 41:30 (trail race where I got lost)

5K - my next will be my best and my worst.

Female!

400 69/72 (haha I suck!)hs

800 2:28/2:45 hs

1500 5:00/5:20

1600 5:16/5:59 hs

3200 11:38/12:59 hs

3000 10:38/11:30

5000 18:11/22:36

8K 30:31/32:00

10mile 1:10:10/1:23:XX (not in races, just training runs)

13 miles 1:35:xx/ 1:53:xx (ditto to above)

Sometimes I would just bomb in hs! you never knew when...I went one track season never even breaking 12 minutes in the 2 mile. Crap happens, I am just glad that (now) a slow race for me after not running for a month and a half is still in the mid 18's and not in the 21's like it was in hs!

40 Plus wrote:

I'm well into my 40's and I'm still getting PR's. I run with several people in their 40's who are much faster than me, and they too are still getting PR's. We all started running later in life, but after many years of running, all of us are still getting faster. Young legs on older bodies.

If you started running in your late 30's I can believe you're setting PR's in your 40's, but no one who ran and raced seriously in their 20's is doing that.

Freshman year of H.S. I ran a 28:30 for DFL at states which isn't my PW because I ran the time trial that season in 34 minutes!!

3 years later I won states a week after running 15:46 (I won't post the state winning time as it wasn't very impressive considering wind and rain).

I think we should modify it, because I know i ran lik 23:50 in the 5k but that was when i was ten...but it wasnt a bad race.

It should be worst time when when recently/semi recently ran a fast time.

over all worst 23:50

but ran 16:50 running all out

three weeks after running 14:25

best worst worst (non-tactical, serious, and recent)

51.8 72.8 54.3

2:02.83 2:56 2:10

4:17.1 5:45 4:37

9:53.3 12:59.4 9:53.3 hehe

half marathon ... only raced one, a month after my 14th birthday (1999) ... 2:19:02, first km 3:19

Also personal worst for blowing up in a race - 800m splits:

27.1

55.8

1:26.3

1:42ish at 700

2:03.3

I would say to make this more meaningful, I will put down my both PWs and PRs for college. Think about it though, I could put down a Phys Ed mile race in 5th grade. Anyway...

800

1:56, 2:00

1500

3:56, 4:11

mile

4:12, 4:28

3000

8:26, 9:11

XC 5m vanny (for comparison purposes)

25:45, 26:51