But as always, there's two sides to every story... I basically didn't know my 800m PR from my Junior year of high school until my Junior year of college due to two separate timing mishaps. The first was during an early season all-comers meet my Senior year of HS. I felt I ran my best race by far, but no one got a time on me (back of the pack in a much faster than expected race). Several people in the stands thought I finished in the ballpark of what would have been a big PR... Frosh year of college, 1st or 2nd meet, another screw up in the form of a 5 second timing discrepancy. Coach had me at about what I felt I ran -- not a PR -- the official results had me 5 seconds faster. Injured most of the track season Sophomore year and didn't do much, then finally ran a time Junior year that was well clear of any of the previous confusion! Rather frustrating in hindsight. I never did take to racing with a watch, though.
Dan --- Jim Gerweck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I love it when some kid who's so inculcated by the nuances of road > racing > reaches to hit his watch at the end of a race, and gets beat by another > who ran through the finish and counted on the timers to do their job. ===== http://AbleDesign.com - Web Design & Custom Programming http://Run-Down.com - 10,000 Running Links, Fantasy T&F ------------------------------------------------------------ @ o Dan Kaplan - [EMAIL PROTECTED] <|\/ <^- ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) _/ \ \/\ (503)370-9969 phone/fax / / __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com
