I was just in the process of doing some serious backup/archiving of my computer files, which included a major photo archival job. I dug up one of my favorite old photos which I thought I had lost forever, from 2002. I noticed the striking similarity in finish times between that race and my most recent race - but at longer distance now!
2002 - The Boilermaker
9.3 mile race, 67:57
I thought this would be the fastest I would ever run in my life
It was the most I had ever trained for a race
Age 26
2009 - Cherry Blossom 10 miler
10 mile race - 67:59
Not a PR, but hopefully still improving
Age 33
6 comments:
That's a great photo!
Congrats on getting faster... the sky is the limit for you!
That's a pretty determined look on your face. No doubt it led to the fast time back in 2002. Thanks for giving us old folk (I'm 36) hope that improvement is still possible.
I thinks us "old" folks have a lot of PRs left still! Actually, I usually feel bad for the youngsters in the 20-30 AG; I think that aside from the competitive racers (collegiate x-country), the experience one has at age 30+ leads to superior results in general. In triathlons, this definitely seems to be the case.
Wow! That predicts a 3:10 marathon pace using McMillan!
Love the pictures, Willis!
Can't wait to see you back out there...tearing up the course and trashing those PRs.
When's your next race?
I think this is an impressive result willis! Great pic as well man! You see??? Magic moments can happen in the East coast as well :)
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