How far from your PRs are your second best times?

Huh, for the marathon,

2:36:22 = PR

2:36:28 = 2nd best

Two or three other in the 2:37 to 2:39.

I think it is similar for 15K and 10K.

My freakiest one is 10K. PR of 35:14...think my second best might be about 36:40. And no, the PR wasn't on a short or aided course. Just the one time I was in great shape for a 10K.

Marathon gap is about 8 minutes - 2:54 best, 3:02 second best.

5K gap is only about 5 seconds, and probably a dozen 5Ks within 20 seconds of my best.

800m - 1.4 secs

1,500m - 0.7 secs

3,000m - 3.4 secs

5K - 42 secs

10K - 19 secs

Half-Marathon - 17 secs

Marathon - 8m58s

400 - 0.01 secs

800 - 0.02

1500 - 0.18

3000 - 22.5

5k - 22

10k - 50

I have a mental problem in the longer events if I'm not running a big PR.

For a long time my track 5000m time was 34s faster than my second best effort. I narrowed it down to 6s post-collegiate. My best half is 6 minutes better than my second, but I've only run 3 of them.

800m - 1.8 sec

1 mile - 1.0 sec

3,000m - 3.5 sec

5K - 6 sec

10K - 13 sec

Half-Marathon - 2:13

Marathon - 1:35

800: 1 second (relay split vs. Official time)

1500: 2 seconds

3000: 1 second

5000: 10 seconds

800 - .2

1500 - 3

Mile - 2.4

3000 - 1.5

8k xc - 50; although I think it was short and is more like 10s difference

1500 3:47.9 Pr 2nd best 3:51.1 (and I tried many times to come close to the 3:47 again).

800 1:54.2 2nd 1:59.5 (hardly ever ran this distance)

Most other PR's are close.

100m - .2

200m - .5

400m - .7

800m - .09

1500m - .8

5K - 15s

10K - 4s

800- 0.11

1500- 0.62

5000- 7.2

10000- 7.6

Half Marathon- 6

Marathon- 3:34 (before my newest pr it was 3 seconds!)

I appreciate the responses. I have long wondered what someone's second best time was, and even further down the line too.

As I'm a coach and my kids are involved in running, I know a girl here in Ohio with a 2:13 PR in the 800, but her second best time is 2:17, then 2:19 and then mid 2:20s after that. She's a good student (not great) and got into an Ivy League school based on that 800 PR of hers. I wonder if she would have gotten in if her second time was her PR.

800 - 1.4 seconds

1500 - 2.5 seconds

5k - 6 seconds

10k - 30 seconds

Half Marathon - 2 seconds

Flagpole wrote:

I appreciate the responses. I have long wondered what someone's second best time was, and even further down the line too.

As I'm a coach and my kids are involved in running, I know a girl here in Ohio with a 2:13 PR in the 800, but her second best time is 2:17, then 2:19 and then mid 2:20s after that. She's a good student (not great) and got into an Ivy League school based on that 800 PR of hers. I wonder if she would have gotten in if her second time was her PR.

what kind of wondering are you doing???

and she probably got in on a bit more than her 800 PR, maybe grades and test scores had a wee bit to do with it

jealousy can blind

Mile:

Best Mile: 4:10.8

2nd best: 4:11.2 (twice)

1500: .9 seconds

Mile: .8 seconds

3000: .6 seconds

3000 steeple: 5 seconds

5000: 4 seconds

Half Marathon: 1:57 (although my split in my marathon PR is only 1:07 off my half PR)

Marathon: 4:34

Interesting ...

5K - 14 sec

10K - 23 sec

1/2 - 24 sec

Mar - 1 sec (2:54:07 / 2:54:08)

Flagpole wrote:

She's a good student (not great) and got into an Ivy League school based on that 800 PR of hers.

Curious statement there. Why would you assume anything about her admission was based on her 800 time?