Should I include my PRs on my resume

i = female

learn verb tenses:

I run, I ran, I HAVE RUN.

I know this is trolly-mctroll.

But what if you took 2-3 years off to run post-college (think, e.g., hansons).

where do you put it in the resume? under work experience?

If you're applying for a job in an IT field, do you create an "IT Work Experience" and an "Other Work Experience" section or just combine them.

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you should absolutely include "competitive running" in your resume...maybe in a hobbies/interests section. and if you did race competitively in college, you should include that in your education section...below the school you attended, you should state "member of track team." if someone reviewing your resume or interviewing you is a runner, they will ask about your times...you don't need to share those b/c they are meaningless to those who don't run. and when someone brings up the running during an interview, talk about how it has shaped your personality or about what it has taught you...like it has taught you the importance of consistency in your work ethic and that it has taught you that you are much more likely to accomplish your goals when you actually make a plan to achieve them as opposed to just working hard in a scattered and inefficient way every day. talking about your athletic experience will get you a job...if you do it right...let the passion come out and don't sound snooty about being an athlete...sound humble about your accomplishments, but confident about abilities to "get it done."

It depends what kind of grad program you are trying to get into. If you are applying to a Kineseology program or something athletic in some manner then yes you should. Most of the people in those kinds of departments are either still physically active or at one time in their lives were moderately competetive athletes and they would think it was pretty cool. (Unless of cousre they had run 14:30 and would think perhaps not so much of it.) It is likely that at least one if not more of the faculty in a department like that had run at least high school track. But if you are applying to a liberal arts type academic program like History or English then you should probably not play up athletics in any way at all. You will find in academic departments like that that it is very likely that a number of faculty are decidedly anti-college athletics and your serious interest and participation would classify you to them as a dumb jock. Not everyone of course, but being a good competetive runner--even if you were an Olympian--would not help in the least to get into a good grad program in departments like English, history, or Sociology. In some cases it would likely hurt your chances. It is not like undergrad admissions where they are looking for well rounded backgrounds and nonsense extracurriculars. They want just the oppositie, people singularly driven in the discipline who will spend all day and night obsessively reading, researching, and writing so they will be able to bring their thesis or dissertation to completion. Running 50 miles a week would make this far less likely.

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Not until you break 15.

Nobody cares about that unless you have won an Olympic medal. If not, keep the PR to yourself.

15:03? You don't say. For a 5k? Is that longer than a marathon? Do you run marathons? No, oh well my neighbor does. I think she's running Boston this year. You should try it out. It's hard though, took her like 6 hours. Phwew!

I second the idea of it depends on what program it is. For Kinesiology, Exercise Science, Exercise Physiology, etc. by all means put it.

For anything else, I being a member of the track team goes into a "activities" section and you can put one of your times (ie, your 15:03 5K) in parentheses if it makes you happy. I don't see having one PR harming your application, but it probably won't help it either.

Include it with contact info at top of resume, right below your letsrun screen name

Just tattoo it on your forehead. It will make a great conversation starter...

Lets put 15:03 in perspective.

You would have to go back to before you were born to find the Womans 5000m WR slower than 15:03. "My current PR would not have held the Womans WR in my lifetime"

A woman ran 15:01.1 and finished 16th in an all womans 5000m race. "If I ran in that all womans race I could have finish in 17th place" How about "The fastest 39 year old woman would beat me by only 30 seconds"

OK you could spin your 15:03 "The fastest 41 year old woman would be almost 8 seconds behind me". Try" No girl younger than a typical HS Soph has run as fast as I have"

Need we go on to the MENS side of the equation?

A man more than TWICE your age ran the second 5000 of a 10000m race MORE THAN ONE MINUTE FASTER than your 5000m PR.

He also ran the first 5000m of that race a minute faster than your PR.

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should i include the number of guys i've slept with

just talked with a girl who has been with over 30 guys by the end of her junior year in high school. doesnt really care if you wear a condom with her or not. was i wrong for being stunned when she said all that?

As a guy I had 6 by end of frosh year and then had steady exclusive gf averaging 5 per week all thru HS. 30 by Jr year? I doubt I would have been much over 15 if I stayed in the hunt and know I had a good date type of rep.

I would absolutely recommend putting PRs on your resume under interests. Especially if it's for a marathon, your PR will be a talking point. Everyone you interview with will either have run or know someone who's run a marathon or a half marathon. If you've done well, it will show that you are committed or talented or both. By "done well" I mean anything half-decent because the vast majority of people will think a 3 hour marathon is smoking fast. Even if it doesn't impress the interviewer, it will provide some casual conversation.

These people are crazy. I have been on committees that looked at grad applications for a History PHD and MA programs and no one cares at all about athletic achievements. And as I stated earlier, at least half the department hated jocks and college athletics. They resented the amount of money and resources that went into the athletic department. They resented the pressure to pass the athletes in undergard core classes. They resented the amount of money college coaches made. They hated the whole thing. Even though you were not a football player at a DI school, they will place you within that group of people. This is not undergrad admissions. There is no interview where you need to fill time discussing your life. They care about your capacity to do the work in your field so unless your 15:03 will help you in some way do your grad work it is not important.

If your PRs are fast, then absolutely include them on your resume under the "additional" or "Other" section.

Generally people will only respond to mile/marathon, but if you have a sub 4:10 or sub 2:30 marathon, definitely include it.

john john wrote:

Im applying for graduate school and have a ran a 15:03, should I include it?

You could not be serious, it is like putting your sexual conquest number on your resume.