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  1. What does 'PR' mean, as in "Top your 10k PR" or "I PR'ed at Utah". Read this in a Tri mag but I've
    got no clue what it means.

  2. "Joel Markovitz" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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    What does 'PR' mean, as in "Top your 10k PR" or "I PR'ed at Utah". Read this in a Tri mag but I've
    got no clue what it means.

    Personal Record aka Personal Best.

    In other words your personal best time for a given distance.

  3. Personal Record = PR also some people say Personal Best, but nobody uses PB for that. So anytime you
    go faster than you have ever done before, it's your PR.

    Ray

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    What does 'PR' mean, as in "Top your 10k PR" or "I PR'ed at Utah". Read this in a Tri mag but I've
    got no clue what it means.

  4. ....or sometimes PW'ed, as the case may be and often is.

    Ruth Kazez

    Ray Plotecia said:

    Personal Record = PR also some people say Personal Best, but nobody uses PB for that. So anytime
    you go faster than you have ever done before, it's your PR.

    Ray

    "Joel Markovitz" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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    Quoted message said:

    What does 'PR' mean, as in "Top your 10k PR" or "I PR'ed at Utah". Read this in a Tri mag but I've
    got no clue what it means.


  5. rtk said:

    ....or sometimes PW'ed, as the case may be and often is.

    I've seen too many of those lately.

    JJ

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    Ruth Kazez

    Ray Plotecia said:

    Personal Record = PR also some people say Personal Best, but nobody uses PB for that. So anytime
    you go faster than you have ever done before, it's your PR.

    Ray

    "Joel Markovitz" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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    Quoted message said:

    What does 'PR' mean, as in "Top your 10k PR" or "I PR'ed at Utah". Read this in a Tri mag but
    I've got no clue what it means.


  6. thanks for the clarifications. I've always heard Personal Best. Not Personal Record.

    Anyway, speaking of personal records ...did my very first Tri at Accenture Chicago this past Sunday.
    Int'l. distance. Excellent day. Early wave, so beat the heat. Couldn't have asked for a better day,
    or better results. Expected to finish 3:30 - 4:00, and came in at
    3:08:32. Had a much stronger run than I had expected. Even beat my normal 10k pace. Guess that's my
    own PR! :-)

    Gotta give some credit to this board. I read on here quite frequently, post on occasion, and have
    read a lot of good advice, and some pretty funny, out-there posts as well. Good group, this RST.

    rtk <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...

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    ....or sometimes PW'ed, as the case may be and often is.

    Ruth Kazez

    Ray Plotecia said:

    Personal Record = PR also some people say Personal Best, but nobody uses PB for that. So anytime
    you go faster than you have ever done before, it's your PR.

    Ray

    "Joel Markovitz" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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    What does 'PR' mean, as in "Top your 10k PR" or "I PR'ed at Utah". Read this in a Tri mag but
    I've got no clue what it means.

  7. personal record,

    your best time at that event and or event length

  8. "Ray Plotecia" <[email hidden]> wrote in :"]news:[email hidden]:

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    some people say Personal Best, but nobody uses PB for that.

    Although it is permissible to celebrate a PR with a PBJ.

    Tom

  9. In article <[email hidden]>, Tom Henderson

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    "Ray Plotecia" <[email hidden]> wrote in :"]news:[email hidden]:

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    some people say Personal Best, but nobody uses PB for that.

    Although it is permissible to celebrate a PR with a PBJ.

    I hope the P in the second abbreviation doesn't stand for "personal" as well. Most of us aren't
    that flexible.

    --Harold Buck

    "I used to rock and roll all night, and party every day. Then it was every other day. . . ."

    - Homer J. Simpson

  10. Quoted message said:
    Quoted message said:

    some people say Personal Best, but nobody uses PB for that.

    Although it is permissible to celebrate a PR with a PBJ.

    Tom


    I celebrated with a MGD :-)

  11. Ray Plotecia said:

    Personal Record = PR also some people say Personal Best, but nobody uses PB for that. So anytime
    you go faster than you have ever done before, it's your PR.

    Ray

    "Joel Markovitz" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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    What does 'PR' mean, as in "Top your 10k PR" or "I PR'ed at Utah". Read this in a Tri mag but I've
    got no clue what it means.


    Must be country specific. In Oz "PB" is used pretty much exclusively
    - swimming and athletics. I was watching the Worlds Athletics this morning and "PB" was used a
    number of times. I'd never heard of "PR" until I discovered this NG. "Great countries divided by a
    common language"

    Ian

  12. "Personnel Record" "Joel Markovitz" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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    Quoted message said:

    What does 'PR' mean, as in "Top your 10k PR" or "I PR'ed at Utah". Read this in a Tri mag but I've
    got no clue what it means.

  13. Harold Buck <[email hidden]> wrote in news:no_one_knows-
    [email hidden]:

    Quoted message said:

    In article <[email hidden]>, Tom Henderson

    Quoted message said:

    "Ray Plotecia" <[email hidden]> wrote in :"]news:[email hidden]:

    Quoted message said:

    some people say Personal Best, but nobody uses PB for that.

    Although it is permissible to celebrate a PR with a PBJ.

    I hope the P in the second abbreviation doesn't stand for "personal" as well. Most of us aren't
    that flexible.

    --Harold Buck

    "I used to rock and roll all night, and party every day. Then it was every other day. . . ."

    - Homer J. Simpson

    Not to mention that if you could do THAT, you'd never leave the house to get the PR.

  14. or a PBR

    --
    mark Outside a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog it is too dark to read - Groucho
    Marx xes out for mail "Tom Henderson" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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    Quoted message said:

    "Ray Plotecia" <[email hidden]> wrote in :"]news:[email hidden]:

    Quoted message said:

    some people say Personal Best, but nobody uses PB for that.

    Although it is permissible to celebrate a PR with a PBJ.

    Tom

  15. Quoted message said:
    Quoted message said:


    Although it is permissible to celebrate a PR with a PBJ.

    I hope the P in the second abbreviation doesn't stand for "personal" as well. Most of us aren't
    that flexible.

    --Harold Buck

    lol. You could use that money you were going to spend on a TT bike for rib removal and advanced
    yoga lessons.

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