he maned up wrote:
What's the general thought on claiming a pr from a split?
This has always been tough for me as I ran a 3:42.2 1500 split but never quite matched in an open (3:44). So on the one hand I like to lay claim to having run the equivalent of a 4 minute mile, but I always feel like I have to qualify it to people that it was a split.
I hate when people claim relay splits as pr's. Here are all the ways a relay split could be inaccurate:
1) It's hand-timed. I've had people hand time me a full second faster than my FAT time for the very same race. Can't trust anything hand timed.
2) You have a running start.
3) The actual distance run is impossible to determine because of the exhange zone. It's entirely possible that you got the baton late in the zone then handed it off early in the zone, thereby running less than 1500 meters. Of course the opposite is true and you may have run farther than 1500, but my point is that we can't know either way.
Sorry dude, you should go with the 3:44.