Marathon target time

[WinOutdoors]

A friend has made enormous progress in his running and had a stated target of 3:30 for London this year.

He is also a huge user of SM, numerous posts everyday about every aspect of his life. One of those people who appears to have a perfect life, but you wonder who he's trying to convince.

Anyway, he did 3:30:52 which is an amazing time. However, he's posted everywhere about how thrilled he is to have "smashed" 3:30. Which he didn't. It's a great time and I'm sure he would have got it in another race, London isn't a place for PBs for the masses because of the congestion, but actually he missed his target!

It doesn't matter in the scheme of things, and if it makes him happy etc, but it is weirdly annoying 😆

@TheOrigRights I don’t disagree .

If he said he goal was sub 3:30 then he didn’t make his goal . If his goal was 3:30 then I think he did make his goal. It depends on how he worded it . My best marathon time was 3:28:12 but I just say 3:28 if someone asks ( none of my friends run so it means nothing to them. In fact if I ran it in 5 hours it would actually sound more impressive 😆)

The term smashed it can be taken however you like but I use that term when I’ve met a hard target.