How many guys on here don't remember their HS PRs?

Same here but I dont remember what I ate yesterday.

Also I graduated HS in the mid 70s.

Yeah, I don't remember my high school PRs. I can remember some races and specifically what time/place but I don't know my PRs from high school overall. I could get within 2 or 3 seconds for the 1600 and 5 to 10 seconds for the 3200. Even my lifetime PRs I'm a little unsure of. I think I know what they are within 1 second, but I wouldn't be surprised if I'm wrong for some distances that I didn't race all that often.

How can one have an XC PR? Unlike on the track, different XC races are different.

Graduated HS in 1988. My High School PR's keep getting better and better the older I get.

There was no internet, so no one can call me on my BS.

I graduated in 84, and know all my track PRs because they all happened in one week my senior year.

XC is a different matter, though. In fact, I don't even know my 5K PR. The times I ran a low-15 in high school, I'm doubtful. The time I ran a low-14 in college I know the course was short. My official 5K PR came en route to my 10K PR, because I know that was a certified course.

I graduated in 2011, I still remember all of my high school PRs, as well as my times from different races that aren't even my PR, as well as the positions other people placed in those races.

I graduated in 2006. I could probably tell you the time I ran in *most* races I did from middle school through college. State Junior Olympic 800m in 7th grade? 2:16. 1500 dual meet against X high school my freshman year? 4:10. 4x400 relay split at this one invitational junior year? 51.5.

That being said, I was OBSESSED with running in middle school and high school, and would pour over times and numbers and splits, so it doesn't shock me that times from 10-20 years ago stuck in my mind. I honestly should probably use that space for more useful things...

i've ran basically every event on the track that doesn't involve hurdles

my main events 400/800, i know my open pr, relay pr, and career progression

my 3k/5k PRs are easy to find online, so i remember those

i straight up have no idea what i ran in the 300m, only that i severely underperformed. i probably don't want to know the answer.

i have a vague idea of my 1000m and 3200m prs, i'm probably a few seconds off.

i know what my 1600m/mile pr is but i'll generally lie about not knowing what it is, or just straight up lie, rather than doing the "well, i ran a fast 8 and a fast 3k, and the teammates i trained with ran x time, so maybe i could have run x" dance

Probably some obscure ones I can't remember.

I never ran in highschool but a group of us where caught smoking behind the stands during a athletic meet and as punishment the teacher made us run the 1500. We walked around the track in our school uniform and it took so long they started the next race whilst we where still going, (we tried to slap the girls butts as they ran past) so my highschool pr in the 1500 was about 20 minutes

justaquestion wrote:

How can one have an XC PR? Unlike on the track, different XC races are different.

Probably going to be a shock for you, but people keep track of their best times. This happens in road races, too, believe it or not. There’s even a world record for the marathon even though the courses vary. Crazy!

coach wrote:

Same here but I dont remember what I ate yesterday.

Also I graduated HS in the mid 70s.

Graduated a little earlier than you and don't remember any of my high school PRs. At this point most of my high school running is a blur except for winning the state team championship my junior year.

The funny thing is I remember my kid's high school PRs better than they do.

I graduated a year after the OP did, and this is what I remember about my HS track PRs:

200 - low 26 (don't remember the tenths)

400 - 57.9 (hand-timed, so the hundredths don't matter)

800 & 1600 - These were my best events, and I do remember these to the hundredths. I don't remember the splits off the top of my head, but did record them.

3200 - 10:1x (somewhere between 10:11 and 10:17)

I'd say I completely forgot how ~75% of my races went and only have a vague memory of ~20% of them. But the remaining ~5% clearly stand out in my mind even today.

Haven't ran a race in 10+ years

53, 1:57, 4:03 1500, 9:39 2-mi 16:00 5k (yuk)

I'm 70. I set my HS mile and two-mile PRs in 1968. My two-mile was a school record and I'd tried all year to set it and only barely managed by two seconds in my last chance, so yeah, I remember it. I don't know my XC PRs and I never bothered to. Every course we ran on was a different distance and none of them were precisely measured anyway.

The older I get, the faster I went.

flvmmox wrote:

i've ran

This is never correct.

35 y/o wrote:

Haven't ran a race in 10+ years

You imbeciles continue to amaze me.

I remember my middle school PRs. I remember what I ran in a 100m dash in my last junior Olympics.

I remember losing a race during "field day" in 5th grade...though I don't remember -or even think- they timed us.

These things haunt me, frankly. I kinda wish I WOULD forget. They are all like ex gfs or something and what they leave me feeling is...less than stellar.