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Jun 2023
2:57pm, 22 Jun 2023
2,818 posts
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Bowman šøšŖ
I think I have a few good years left in me, if I want. I also only started to get more serious 2 years ago.
In that matter it was nice to be a late starter.
And allMatthew, just keep at it, results will come. You are on the āPlateau of Latent Potentialā and soon youāll reach a new level.
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Jun 2023
2:57pm, 22 Jun 2023
21,380 posts
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larkim
I'm just looking forward to having a plan back in the Fetch diary from next week onwards to Eryri; I envy those runners who literally just enjoy going out to do it for doing it's sake most of the time.
I get that feeling some of the time, but a lot of the time I need to know I'm running for some sort of purpose; not always race related. A lot ebbs and flows with the various stresses and strains of work or avoiding extremes of the weather (mainly heat, tbh, most other conditions are fine for me).
There was a halcyon period for me back in 2018 I think where I was a bit less stop/start with running, but I made the mistake of trying cycling for a bit (bad idea, caused injury), then had a post injury period to build up from, then got injured before a Sept 19 marathon, then got back on track and ran well through the first year of Covid but ran out of steam for maintaining it.
Even this year after London I've struggled to maintain any consistency with an absence of meaningful goals. So fingers crossed an 18 week plan towards Eryri will work, and then a winter of Borders League races will keep my interest piqued until London 2024!
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Jun 2023
3:46pm, 22 Jun 2023
2,602 posts
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Big_G
Iām not in the league of most on here, so what Iām about to say may need to be taken with that in mind.
I have goals to get faster and in fact still do think Iāve got PBs in me at all distances. But alongside that I do events for the enjoyment - the enjoyment of training, the enjoyment of ājust doing a marathonā because I fancy it, travelling, meeting new people, etc. Iāve always been like this. Itās a cliche I know, but for me itās about experiences as well. For example, Iāve done many city marathons where the events themselves may not be at the top of my favourites (Marrakech and Sofia spring to mind), but the weekends were awesome. I wouldnāt have gone without the events, but the event itself was just a small part of the whole weekend.
I admit I love it when I get a PB. But, as an example, I genuinely loved a recent marathon I did (Boston) even though I was 35mins off my best. I loved everything about it, and Iām honestly not really bothered about the time.
Yes, I know I will get slower - maybe Iāve peaked already? But for me thereās so much more to running the events than just the times.
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Jun 2023
3:46pm, 22 Jun 2023
14,988 posts
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jda
There was also that Tim Grose (?) video analysing rbr data that suggested most people hit their PBs about 5 years after they started running, very few were PBing past year 7 or so. Which certainly fits me.
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Jun 2023
4:58pm, 22 Jun 2023
46,997 posts
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HappyG(rrr)
I'd just qualify that by saying "5 full years". If you have e.g. 6 months off for an injury then that's a big hole, possibly a lost year to regain fitness and restart. But yeah 5 good, consistent years and I think you'd get to your peak. Pretty much exactly that for me 2008 - 2013 with 2 x 3-6 month injury impacted periods. All downhill since. Except for the very long, uphill bits of course!  G
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Jun 2023
5:04pm, 22 Jun 2023
5,964 posts
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Windsor Wool
I ran a HM pb on my 50th birthday and after 14 years of pretty consistent training š.
Probably the shoesā¦.
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Jun 2023
5:47pm, 22 Jun 2023
2,603 posts
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Big_G
I ran PBs at 5K, 10k, Half and Full over the last couple of years, after running fairly seriously since 2014 (had been running since 2007), and previous marathon PB in 2018. For me the pandemic helped focus the mind a bit and I got some decent training in (basically low HR) without poxy races getting in the way.
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Jun 2023
7:03pm, 22 Jun 2023
88 posts
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Charlesvdw
I ran my first marathon in 2016 and I ran PBs in 2018, 2019 and two PB's in 2022.
But I want to PB in Berlin later this year.
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Jun 2023
7:13pm, 22 Jun 2023
25,061 posts
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Bazoaxe
I ran my first 10k in 2000. First marathon 2006. PBd at 5k half and full in 2019. 10k PB was a year or two earlier.
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Jun 2023
7:35pm, 22 Jun 2023
75 posts
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SJA
Started running and first 10k in 2006 aged 32.
During lockdown PB'd at mile, 5k, 10k and half marathon in 2020 aged 46 (All virtual one man runs).
50 this year in August and looking to PB at all distances during my 50th year. Although I may spoilt it and get a couple before I hit 50
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