Post Teen Personal Record (PTPR)
24:59 was my 5K time trial result last night - and I'm happy with it... I could have shaved off a minute or so pushing a littler harder. It would still be 7 minutes (30%!) slower than what I used to run - and I'm happy with it... Over the last year, every warm up, track workout, long run, or race, I've been haunted by my teen self, comparing my pace and times to my teenage self. While racing this last year I'd think about my teenage workouts: "This is slower than what used to be our warm up pace???" "Why am I so tired? Why is my heart pounding?" "This should be easy!" "We used to talk, joke, and laugh at this pace." "When coach wasn't running with us we would sometimes 'slack off" at this pace" Whenever I had a fastest time this last year I'd start saying I got a new PR. That excitement would quickly deteriorate into, well it's kind of a new PR, I mean if you exclude what I did in my te...