PRs
Because it came up for some reason today.
2 miles - 14:25 - August 1995. For high school football linemen had to run a 14:30 on the first day of practice. If you failed, you did it again the next day before practice. And the day after that. And so on, although eventually the time required would start rising. Going into my senior year I had never made it without the time going up, and I was determined to change that. After a long summer, I knocked out a 14:35 on the first try on the gravel roads around town. Coach later told me he was going to let me have it (he knew I hit the gym harder than pretty much anyone else) but I swore like a sailor when they read off the time so he made me do it again. The second time out I nailed it in 14:25.
3 miles - 20:03 - December 2001. A three mile run is part of the Marine Corps fitness test required for OCS. A perfect score required an 18:00 time. I did nothing but work out and diet for four solid months, and I got the time down to 20:03 on a paved course. I cannot envision my time ever getting that low again. Given that my pace was 6:41, I'm sure my two mile time must have been down in the high 12s or low 13s, but if I ever knew my splits I've long since forgotten it.
5K - 29:03. Sunday, September 30, 2012. I've certainly run faster over that distance, but nothing that was formally timed. What gets measured (or at least remembered) gets counted.
Mercifully, I've forgotten the time I posted in the 400m the one year I ran high school track. I have no idea why I got thrown into that event, but I'm pretty sure that good runners were doing the 800m faster than I was doing the 400m. I ran like a thrower.
2 miles - 14:25 - August 1995. For high school football linemen had to run a 14:30 on the first day of practice. If you failed, you did it again the next day before practice. And the day after that. And so on, although eventually the time required would start rising. Going into my senior year I had never made it without the time going up, and I was determined to change that. After a long summer, I knocked out a 14:35 on the first try on the gravel roads around town. Coach later told me he was going to let me have it (he knew I hit the gym harder than pretty much anyone else) but I swore like a sailor when they read off the time so he made me do it again. The second time out I nailed it in 14:25.
3 miles - 20:03 - December 2001. A three mile run is part of the Marine Corps fitness test required for OCS. A perfect score required an 18:00 time. I did nothing but work out and diet for four solid months, and I got the time down to 20:03 on a paved course. I cannot envision my time ever getting that low again. Given that my pace was 6:41, I'm sure my two mile time must have been down in the high 12s or low 13s, but if I ever knew my splits I've long since forgotten it.
5K - 29:03. Sunday, September 30, 2012. I've certainly run faster over that distance, but nothing that was formally timed. What gets measured (or at least remembered) gets counted.
Mercifully, I've forgotten the time I posted in the 400m the one year I ran high school track. I have no idea why I got thrown into that event, but I'm pretty sure that good runners were doing the 800m faster than I was doing the 400m. I ran like a thrower.