June Krauser gave me good advice years ago: "Don't look back. Establish PRs for each group and be happy with that."
I've always liked this kind of advice. Every 5 years you get to start fresh; it takes the sting out of a birthday, especially a "big" one like 40 or 50 or 60 (as they say, it sure beats the alternative).
Every year, my general goals for a particular event in order of increasing difficulty are:
-- improve my time on an age-adjusted scale like this one.
-- beat last year's time.
-- set a new PR for my current age group (though that is easier than the previous goal if you just aged up...:))
June Krauser gave me good advice years ago: "Don't look back. Establish PRs for each group and be happy with that."
I've always liked this kind of advice. Every 5 years you get to start fresh; it takes the sting out of a birthday, especially a "big" one like 40 or 50 or 60 (as they say, it sure beats the alternative).
Every year, my general goals for a particular event in order of increasing difficulty are:
-- improve my time on an age-adjusted scale like this one.
-- beat last year's time.
-- set a new PR for my current age group (though that is easier than the previous goal if you just aged up...:))
