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HighHeat
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 Posted: 10/14/04 - 10:53 Post subject: Speaking of PRs...
..do you PR "often"?
I've only been running for about a year and a half, so I've only run one race and not PR'd (and I ran it on a whim, after sitting in a car for an hour and a half).
So, how often do you race, and how often do you PR?
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Posted: 10/14/04 - 10:57 Post subject:
Only done 4 races:
1st - 10k (Obvious PR)
2nd - another 10k (2 minutes slower than my PR)
3rd - Tri (PR for 5k run)
4th- another tri (5 minutes off my PR for the 10k run)
edited cause i cant count
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Posted: 10/14/04 - 10:57 Post subject: Re: Speaking of PRs...
| HighHeat wrote: | ..do you PR "often"?
I've only been running for about a year and a half, so I've only run one race and not PR'd (and I ran it on a whim, after sitting in a car for an hour and a half).
So, how often do you race, and how often do you PR? |
I'm not really sure how often I race (8/yr av?) but I have PR'd on almost every race. Mostly because I am a slow runner and just about any kind of training is going to help me go faster. I think you might find, however, that people who are pretty quick to begin with don't PR quite as often.
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Posted: 10/14/04 - 11:03 Post subject:
I love this question.  I race too often to PR often, but I PRd in all 5 of my du/tri attempts, and of 59 running races have distance PRd 31 times and in repeats have course PRd 18 times. This fall I've raced the last 7 weeks - every race a PR of some sort.
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Posted: 10/14/04 - 11:14 Post subject:
In 2003:
5k pr of 18:43
5 mi. pr of 33:42
10k pr of 41:13
and missed a 4 mi pr by 14 seconds due to a shoe that came untied
In 2004:
5 mi pr of 33:36 and that is it.
2005 is gonna be my year! Every pr in the book is goin' by the wayside.
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Posted: 10/14/04 - 11:16 Post subject:
All three I've run have been.
I'm guessing the next one won't be. 
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Posted: 10/14/04 - 11:18 Post subject:
| Ms. Jenn wrote: | All three I've run have been.
I'm guessing the next one won't be. |
Why would you guess that??? 
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Posted: 10/14/04 - 11:20 Post subject:
I'll race 15-25 races per year.
This year I PRd my 5k time twice.
Anything over 10k would be an instant PR at this point. (Just because I last raced those distances at a time when I wasn't really a runner.) But 5k and 10k PRs have reached the point where I only expect to even challenge a PR only a few times a year. I'll need weeks of specific training, a good race course, good weather, and good luck.
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Posted: 10/14/04 - 11:41 Post subject:
I've been doing race for 2 years and a month. The most recent PR was about six or seven weeks ago. While I don't PR every race, the times I post when I don't are still respectable compared to the PR and recent efforts. Sole exception - this past Sunday. 
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Posted: 10/14/04 - 11:46 Post subject:
| robp wrote: |
2005 is gonna be my year! Every pr in the book is goin' by the wayside. |
oh heck yeah!!!!
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Posted: 10/14/04 - 11:50 Post subject: Re: Speaking of PRs...
| HighHeat wrote: | | So, how often do you race, and how often do you PR? |
5Ks are the only standard distance I race, everything else seems to be some weird combination of distance for a duathlon.
I race 4-6 5Ks a year and this year, I finally broke a PR from early 2003. 
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Posted: 10/14/04 - 12:51 Post subject:
For the record, I've raced 8 times so far.
2003
5K (in order) - 38:29 (PR), 35:45 (PR), 32:59 (PR), 30:47 (PR)
2004
5K (in order) - 30:00 (PR), 30:47
10K - 1:07:21 (PR)
Half - 2:31:30 (PR)
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Posted: 10/14/04 - 12:52 Post subject:
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at a time when I wasn't really a runner |
You weren't always a runner? 
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Posted: 10/14/04 - 12:55 Post subject:
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You weren't always a runner? |
He was just "X" before.
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Posted: 10/14/04 - 13:02 Post subject: Re: Speaking of PRs...
| purple hayes wrote: |
5Ks are the only standard distance I race, everything else seems to be some weird combination of distance for a duathlon.
I race 4-6 5Ks a year and this year, I finally broke a PR from early 2003. |
Speaking of 5K PR's... Are you running in Loganville on Friday?
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