pbs in training

[Deleted User]

I know they dont count but how many people run pbs in training runs - ive just run a 10k PB. shame it wasnt a race though!

[Deleted User]

I train in training and I give my best shot in a race. This year I have lowered my PBs in every race.

Unknown

I always train faster than I race. I wish I knew why.

[Deleted User]

3 possibilities:
1) Courses for training mis-measured / guessed wrong
2) Training too hard all the time - read base thread...
3) Both

Hilly

I've never ran a similar distance faster in a training run than in a race.

Brian Wakem

I did a 16:52 5k (PB) training run on tired legs and then only beat it by 1 second in a race with fresh legs a couple of weeks later.

Mike S

By "PB" do you mean PB for a regular course you do in training?

Brian Wakem

PB for 5k

Mike S

sorry - not directed at you Brian but neil007

[Deleted User]

No im talking about a 10k PB over 10k but in training.

[Deleted User]

Yes i count training runs as PB's if i break my personal record.
Why not? As long as the distance you've run is correct (i check in the car and add 100 metres on). You can't kid the man in the mirror.
My 10K progression was;
48.49 race
47.33 training
46.02 training
44.19 race
41.57 race
Sub 40 next month in Wesham?

[Deleted User]

It suggests you are not preparing properly for your races...
DCD

candy ollier

maybe you just get too stressed in races and screw up... psychology is important

[Deleted User]

I regularly do 10k training runs at 52 mins plus, but my time in races is 45-46 mins. I feel equally knackered at the end of both.

For me I think the competition spurs me on in races, whereas in training I'm focussing on doing things right and not getting a silly injury - or being run over by a car!

ceal

I have nothing to add to the above, except to say I always run faster in a race than in training. I NEVER try and run the distance of a race at race speed in a training run. If it is a 10 k race training for example I will run fast only for 80% of the distance. I think that to run as fast as race pace for as long as the rac eupsets the rest of one's training , if one is knackered as I am after a race, there is no way that I can put in proper training runs for the rest of the week. Also, increases the risk of injury. It, therefore, has a negative effect.

That is only my opinion, and as a more mature veteran, I perhaps have to be more careful than you younger one's. But I believe the principal to be the same.

[Deleted User]

I wouldn't trust a car. The readings are a small but significant distance out per mile.

The only way is on an accurately measured course - a track or if you know the exact start and finish points of a local 10k.

candy ollier

map programs or a timex sdm - sdms are accurate enough