I'm interested to see how people's best 10k times have progressed over the years. If you remember them, or if you have them handy, post your PR's by year. Comments on how your training changed and what contributed to your improvement would be interesting as well. Thanks.
1996: 31:07
2002: 47:48 jog with my friend
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1979 39:17
1980 37:28
1981 36:36
1982 35:17
1983 33:34
1985 35:21
1988 35:17
1991 35:11
1992 36:28
1994 37:28
2007 40:11
I'll go by age, might be more of what you are looking for:
18 32:12
23 31:30
25 31:15
26 31:08
27 30:48
28 31:12
40 33:18
41 33:08
42 33:50
In my 20's I tried to run 60 miles a week, usually less but trained with some pretty fast guys on workout days so focus was more on quality. Lots of longer stuff, mile, 2 mile repeats; workouts that parts of would be amazing races now. Standard XC in fall, indoor track and workouts in the winter. More focus on track and XC at early ages. Ran about 30 sub 32 10k's. Now I'm thrilled to run 50 miles and not be injured. I"m pushing to try and break 33 this spring.
08/2006-- 42:0x (first 10K ever)
01/2007-- 40:0x
12/2007-- 37:1x
I was doing about 30 mpw for the first one, 50-60 mpw for the second one, and I'm doing about 90 mpw now.
Thanks, that's interesting stuff. What age did you start running?
Never ran in high school or college.
Started running road races in 1980 at 19.
1981 36:00 20 yrs
1982 32:08 21 yrs
1986 30:40 25 yrs
1989 30:20 28 yrs
1991 29:56 30 yrs
1993 30:45 32 yrs
2007 34:30 45 yrs
Peaked in '91. 50 - 60 miles per week at max. Speed once a week. example 6 x 800 2:12 - 2:16. 10 x 400 61 - 65.
30 minute 10k's were fun while they lasted, picked up a few $$ and airline tickets. Won $1000 bucks at one race for 1st. I think I ran 30:39.
Solid progress, particularly 81-86. Gives me some hope.
age 18 - 31:16
age 19 - 30:51
age 20 - N/A
age 21 - N/A
age 22 - 31:31
Let's see if I can make a comeback happen
Same question for you...when did you start running? Did you run track or XC in high school?
2002- 33:48/15:39
2003- 33:04/15:24
2004- 31:45/15:12
Here's some progress and regress of a long time runner; started running freshman year of college, at 18-19. I've thrown in some mileage stats for good measure.
19 - 36 high for xc, but 27:20s for 5 mile road
20 - 32:50 (70 mpw)
22 - 32:48 (70 - 90 mpw, just before moving into 100s)
25 - 31:48 (70 - 80 mpw)
27 - 32:09 (50 mpw)
28 to 32 - lots of sub 32:30s
33 - 32:11 (40-50 mpw, 5k type training)
34 - 32:31 (the slide begins!)
35 - 33:30
36 - 34:07
37 - 34:30s
38 - 35:30s
39 - 35:44
40 - 34:07 (masters comeback; 50 mpw)
41 - 34:20
42 - 34:40s
43 - 36:30 (crashing again!)
44 - injured
45 - injured
46 - 36:40
47 - 35:22 (60 - 70 mpw)
48 - 35:32 (60 - 70 mpw)
49 - 36:57 (30 mpw)(injured, but worked back into low-sub 36 shape later in year)
donm wrote:
Thanks, that's interesting stuff. What age did you start running?
Started running at the beginning of high school so 14. I had an amazing national level coach, great group to train with, execellent trails and track so overall, looking back, a really good set up. Of course you don't realize it at the time and think you can dick around and run 29 flat or faster one day! We did speedy type stuff; stides etc at least pretty much year round. I wish I did a half when I was in decent shape. There weren't many of them in the late 80's/early 90's.
Great progression 1979-1983.
Have only ran 4 10ks on the track.
20 years old- 30:23 and 30:20 four weeks later
23 years old- 29:46 and then 30:48 in one of those shitty, slow, hot tactical conference races.
Trying to stay in shape working in the corporate world and drop the times a bit... never run one on the west coast (not that you need to be out there to run fast) so it would be nice to get one in at Stanford or Mt. Sac.
1999 (16) 37:29 road
2000 (17) 36:31 road
2001 (18) 35:30 road
2002 (19) 34:57 road
2003-2005 Injured more often than not, little racing
2006 (22) 33:30 road *probable short course
2007 (23) DNF road; 19:48 at 6km, heat exhaustion
2007 (24) 33:16 road
2007 (24) 33:58 track
2007 (24) 33:32 road
Getting over an injury at the moment and looking to go sub-32 in the next 12-18 months. Ambitious but achievable.
yeah wrote:
2004- 31:45/15:12
Damn...those are my PR's exactly. I ran them in 2007.
1995 (17), 34:55
1996 (18), 32:53
1997 (19), , 25:17 (8k)
1998 (20), 31:48
1999 (21), 30:38
2007 (29), , 23:58 (8k)
1995 (17), 34:55
1996 (18), 32:53
1997 (19), (32:06), 25:17 (8k)
1998 (20), 31:48
1999 (21), 30:38
2007 (29), (30:12), 23:58 (8k)