Activity - Personal Best - Age

[Howard2k]

I’m a super casual runner, and I’m also approaching 50. Closer than I would like.

I don’t actively focus on personal best times, but it’s sometimes a pleasant surprise to put some effort into a run and get that medal.
For those that track your personal best times - how will you adapt for age? Or just not bother?

My PB at my current age will be unobtainable in 20 years. Likely also 10 years. Perhaps even 2 years. There will come a point where no matter how hard and carefully I train I will simply be unable to ever beat my PB from last year - for example. Or from when I was 21, obviously. Again, I’m super casual, it’s no big deal, but it’s still a motivator, if only slightly, to say “today I’m going to give it a shot”.

I guess I could just export my workouts to a spreadsheet and use some formula magic to keep track of “best time in the last 24 months” or something like that.


Do you guys keep track of that stuff? If so - what’s your method?

 

[bricktop_at]

I‘m in the same boat, regular but casual runner in my early mid-40ies.

I more or less keep track of my pace by looking at past workouts and also by checking the statistics provided by HealthFit since a couple of weeks (have to get into that a bit more).

When I think about the pace/km from 10 years ago I feel old😅

Nowadays I‘m around 6:30 to 7:00, which is about a minute slower than 2012/2013. Since then I have moved to a more rural location and there‘s more elevation during my runs, but it‘s undeniable 😉

 

[PatrickNSF]

My PBs are whatever my race PBs happen to be. Both my marathon and half PBs were set when I was in my mid-50s.

One option to consider is to reset your non-race PBs on your birthday every year. I do that on my Peloton for cycling workouts, but don’t really worry about it while running.