It’s been almost 3 years since the last time I ran a 1 mile time trial. Back then I set a PR of 6:55 and I remember I was ecstatic that it started with a 6! I didn’t really know what to expect today as I’ve recently run sub-6/mi pace 400m repeats, but my mile repeats have been more around 7:20/mi.
Today I ran this mile with my 13 year old son. His PR from last year was 6:20 and I was hoping to be closer to that than to my old PR. I didn’t quite get close to 6:20, but I did beat him today! He ran a 6:38- though he started making excuses about accidentally pausing his watch or some-such, but dropped it when I reasoned that would make his time quicker. His watch is a bit less accurate than mine so I wouldn’t doubt if that could have some effect – we decided not to just use a stopwatch because we wanted to be sure to get a full mile for the PR, not just 1600m, plus one of the turns had sand/gravel in lane 1 so you had to take a slightly longer path.
Anyway, I’m pretty happy with a :22 improvement, especially when I looked up my weight from back then and found that I am at least 8lbs heavier now.
