Who here has a PR that is mind-numbingly close to a time barrier?

I ran 2:00.xx several times before breaking 2:00 in the 800m (took me almost two years from the first 2:00.xx). My 5k PR is 14:59.8x, I'm not sure what I would have done if I'd run 0.2 seconds slower.

I am the opposite. All of my old man PRs (post age 30) just get me under certain barriers: 4:54, 16:53, 35:57, 1:19:57, 2:49:05. Some of these offer quite a bit of room for improvement, but if I never PR'd in a race again I would be okay sleeping at night.

You would probably be happy you ran a 15:00 PB. minutes and seconds are really just a measure we came up with, no need to bother with time barriers if you know you did your best.

My mile PR is 430.05. I have been at 1200 meters between 320-324 many times and never have quite enough left to close under 430.

I am slow, but my 5k PR is 19:01. That is from 3 years ago when my marathon PR was 3:45. After a lot of hard work my new marathon PR is currently 3:09 so I am thinking about finding a 5k to run just to finally have an 18 handle for a 5k PR.

Like I said, I am slow!

Mile time is 4:20.15....kind of sucks to not be inside of that.

Missed qualifying for the finals in the new england championship 1000m by .08

Came close to getting listed on a T&FN top 10 list. Was still happy though because we ran a great time.

I mentioned my disappointment to a teammate, who put things in perspective by replying, "What the f*ck is Track and Field News?"

I ran 4:20.00 in high school for the mile. Wish I'd dove at the line.

4:40, 10:01, 16:04, 1:15, 2:38 (6:02 pace)

Close-but-no-cigar is kind of my thing, I guess.

The Queen of this was Rowburry before she went to NOP: 2:00, 4:00, 15:00

Not me, but Ritzenhein in the Half marathon - 1:00:00. That's gotta be the worst.

Both sides of the deal. 31:04 for 10K. But just went 24:58 for 8K a few weeks ago. It had been 25:05 from last year, so glad I got that monkey off my back.

First time I broke 32 for 10K, it was 31:59.96.

50.04 for the 400. Prior to that it was 50.14, so I was pretty disappointed it didn't get under 50.

I quit the team the next year.

11:01 for 3200m in HS & I'm a dude

30:00.85 10k

this past track season I ran between 10:04 and 10:09 in the 3200m NINE FREAKING times before finally running 9:53 in my last meet.

My 5K and 10K PRs are 15:03 and 31:02 so that kind of sucks. Haven't given up on breaking them though. Really the reason I haven't yet is mostly for lack of trying at a time when I was fit, since I've trained mostly for half/full marathons since college.I ran 15:10 in 2007 and just have ran it very sparingly (again, when in shape) since. I've only ran one track 10K since that 31:02 and it was the same season.That said, I'm training for a mile right now looking to get a sub-4:20 this winter/spring, so not sure when I'll go after those other barriers. I'm also so far removed from when I ran those times, I fear that I'll never be able to get back to that ability level again.

Duty free wrote:

this past track season I ran between 10:04 and 10:09 in the 3200m NINE FREAKING times before finally running 9:53 in my last meet.

That was me my freshman/sophomore years of HS. Ran 10:09 freshman year and then 10:06 about five times as a sophomore. Didn't break 10 until a junior; ran 9:38 that year.

I've run 2:00.xx a number of times in the open 8. Got a 1:56 relay split though, so I call that my PR.

My 10000 on the track is 31:00.3, run in the mid 80's. I couldn't have found .4?!! On the road the best I ever did was 31:35.

I don't have any mind blowing close times but I don't ever pr by a few seconds...... its always by at least 30 seconds, the longer the distance the bigger the pr is.