EP 9: PERSONAL BEST VS. PERSONAL RECORD
Run, Selfie, Repeat
Kelly Roberts
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2017
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Personal best (PB) and personal record (PR), two words that arguably mean the same thing. Or do they? In 2015, I learned firsthand what it felt like to run a personal best and it didn't really have anything to do with my pace. I was giving everything I had with joy every step of the painful way. It was the closest I'd ever come to embracing pain in a way that was actually fun.
So when you're chasing a goal that feels impossible, fills you with doubt, and scares the crap out of you, the only way you'll give your best is if you're having fun because having fun forces you to be present.
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| 0:00.0 | Do da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da. |
| 0:04.0 | Every day I wake up to a Disney fireworks show, like a crazy person, because it sounds like that, and it gets me so hyped for the day. |
| 0:12.3 | I don't know what it is about it, but the whole, like... |
| 0:17.9 | I always wake up with a smile, even when it's like 3.50 in the morning. |
| 0:23.4 | Anyways, hey, hey you. |
| 0:26.9 | Welcome to episode 9 of the Run Selfie Repeat Podcast, |
| 0:31.0 | where I talk your ear off about life with a side of running. |
| 0:37.5 | Anyways, today I have a very special topic because I have just completed the fourth day of the best |
| 0:48.5 | training week I've ever had in my whole entire life. |
| 0:52.7 | I nailed every single workout I had this week with flying colors. |
| 0:58.7 | I feel like Beyonce. |
| 1:00.2 | I don't want to jinx this weekend. |
| 1:02.4 | So hold on while I knock on wood. |
| 1:04.7 | There's no wood around me. |
| 1:06.7 | Oh, there's a hammer. |
| 1:07.5 | Hold on. |
| 1:10.4 | Yeah, there we go. I'm not going to jinx this 17-mile |
| 1:13.3 | this weekend. But today I want to talk about personal bests versus personal records. |
| 1:22.3 | And I guess not versus, but the difference between the two of them because understandably, |
| 1:27.3 | a lot of people think that they're |
| 1:28.3 | the exact same thing because they are kind of the exact same thing but to me I think they're |
| 1:32.0 | different I think a personal best is when you go out and give your very best effort that's |
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