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I done the Glasgow 10K today and posted a time of 44:24 (according to my garmin). Its my first race since starting running again in May of this year (after an absence of about 17 years).
As I said on the newcomers forum on my first post - I used to do a lot of running to a decent standard whilst at school. In the summer I'd tend to race 800 & 1500m on the track, and over the winter I would do x-c.
As I was running in the youth section the races tended to be quite short - but when I was 15 (19 years ago) I did do our local 10K.
I finished in the top 10 and would have posted a time much quicker than todays effort. I have no idea what time I posted as I didn't keep a note of it after I started a career of drinking/clubbing etc and stopped my athletics. I could go to the local library as they keep archives of the 'local' newspapers we have here and they may have the times in them somewhere.
My main question is though - do I treat todays race as a PB or should I strictly speaking use the one from 19 years ago when I was much fitter and much faster.
In the strictest terms I guess the one from when I was younger is my PB - but it would be an unrealistic aim at the moment and feel todays one would be a truer reflection.
What do you guys think?
As I said on the newcomers forum on my first post - I used to do a lot of running to a decent standard whilst at school. In the summer I'd tend to race 800 & 1500m on the track, and over the winter I would do x-c.
As I was running in the youth section the races tended to be quite short - but when I was 15 (19 years ago) I did do our local 10K.
I finished in the top 10 and would have posted a time much quicker than todays effort. I have no idea what time I posted as I didn't keep a note of it after I started a career of drinking/clubbing etc and stopped my athletics. I could go to the local library as they keep archives of the 'local' newspapers we have here and they may have the times in them somewhere.
My main question is though - do I treat todays race as a PB or should I strictly speaking use the one from 19 years ago when I was much fitter and much faster.
In the strictest terms I guess the one from when I was younger is my PB - but it would be an unrealistic aim at the moment and feel todays one would be a truer reflection.
What do you guys think?