Guaranteed PR

I was digging through some old stuff the other day and found a couple of old race numbers stuffed in my high school yearbook. One of them was a 5K I ran when I was 14. I placed third for my age group with a 23:30. I'm pretty sure that's one of the few times in my life that I have actually placed in a race.

Now I'm not a very good record keeper, because I have no idea what my other times where in those early years of running. Do you know what that means? Aside from this 5K PR, I have a clean slate on PR's!

This brings up an important issue: do PR's expire? I read one running article where the writer suggested that any PR more than 2 years old is invalid. Personally, I think this is a bunch of hooey. A record by it's very nature stands until it is broken.

Anyway, back to the topic: since I only have one PR that I can remember, every race distance (except 5K) that I choose to run is a guaranteed PR! In four weeks, as long as I finish my half marathon, I will have a new PR!

5K 23:30
13.1 __________

115 miles down, 107 miles to go.