I want to take shot at American indoor 3000 meter record - does anyone know what it is?

Just cruise the 2000 split in 5:10 and throw down a 2:21 to close.

No problem.

Cool. Lagat has both the indoor and outdoor Kenmerican records.

OK wise guy, where on that page is the answer? Or since it's not on the first page, where in search the results is it?

bangalangadanga wrote:

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Good luck in your record attempt. If you don't succeed just keep training harder and harder. You will get there if you want it enough.

I'm not saying I think this is the case or even really speculating about it, but I do have a question. If the OP was actually a certain occasionally masked runner from Oregon ... and he did go out and set the AR record in the 3000 ... and he was able to come here and prove these posts are his ... would that be the most truly epic moment in LetsRun history?

The message boards would be down for days.

-H

As the OP you are not blazingly hot but you are simmering in your musings

Well ... good luck on both counts then.

Sheriff Buford T. Pusser wrote:

You will get there if you want it enough.

This is true.

I went for the record once and didn't get it.

Turns out I just didn't want it enough.

LDOPA wrote:

You've got to start small. If you can run a 1000m race in 2:30, you are one third of the way there. If that is too hard, just run a 500m in 1:15. Run a 1000m at this pace once a week, then once every 6 days, every 5 days, and so on. Soon you will be able to do all 3 on the same day. Start slowly moving the race times closer and closer together, until you can do all 3 without stopping.

Trust me, I'm a professional math guy.

I'd suggest this progression:

1. 6x500m @1:20, 30s jog rest with a 40lb vest

2. 3x1k @2:40, 45s jog rest w/ 40lb vest

3. 6x500m @1:15, 30s jog rest; 20/lb vest

4. 3 x1k @ 2:30, 45 jog rest; 20 lb vest

5. 3k time trial w/10lb vest...if you can do it under 7:46 you should be good to go

Future Headliner wrote:

As the OP you are not blazingly hot but you are simmering in your musings

Now this has got me wondering; which US runners are in the simmering neighborhood with the Ruppster? Jager, Bumbalough, Centrowitz? Now which of these runners would be unaware of the indoor AR for 3k? Of those which one actually has the wheels to run sub 7:35? Ok Matt, the gig is up – oh and maybe spend some of your downtown learning a little T&F history instead of trolling the hobby joggers on LRC.

ALAN WEBB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You people don't know this, but this actually Lance Armstrong trying to test some new drugs to prove the impossible...

Wow, how is there so much discussion on this? Are US national records THAT hard to look up?

3000 m 7:32.43 Bernard Lagat Nike 17 February 2007 Aviva Indoor Grand Prix Birmingham, United Kingdom

Two miles 8:09.72 Galen Rupp 11 February 2012 USATF Classic Fayetteville, United States

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_records_in_track_and_field#Indoor

Anyways good luck!

If you have to ask what the record in any event is...then you don't have a hope in hell of getting it.

LDOPA wrote:

You've got to start small. If you can run a 1000m race in 2:30, you are one third of the way there. If that is too hard, just run a 500m in 1:15. Run a 1000m at this pace once a week, then once every 6 days, every 5 days, and so on. Soon you will be able to do all 3 on the same day. Start slowly moving the race times closer and closer together, until you can do all 3 without stopping.

Trust me, I'm a professional math guy.

This is the 'distance' approach. It's been discredited for years now. I, along with all right-thinking people, believe in changing your time, while holding the distance constant. Go to your local indoor track. Run 3000 as fast as you can - how fast doesn't really matter. You'll just be establishing a base line. Let's say you run 11:32. The next day, go to that same track and run 11:31. You'll be able to improve in this fashion because of your training the previous day. On day three, run 11:30 and so on. Within just one year, you'll not only be breaking the current American record, but you'll be giving bicycles a run for their money at the local velodrome! Within two to three years, you'll be pushing the limits of the universe itself! You'll know that you've reached a new plateau when you start to experience the course of your everyday activities backwards.

Report back!

bangalangadanga wrote:holy shiite, i was thinking the WR couldn't be too far under 7:30, but jeez....

1998 7:24.90 Daniel Komen (KEN) Budapest

1999 7:26.15 Haile Gebrselassie (ETH) Karlsruhe

as i have mentioned before, this shows that komen's 7'20 isn't as "out there" as is common belief

if you do some physics on those indoor times they come out as

- komen ~ high-7'21

- geb ~ high-7'22/low-7'23

this shows komen did have another 3k run close to his outdoor wr & that geb just coudn't buy a decent pace outdoors with only a 7'25pb - his indoor is in region of high-7'22/low-7'23 which shows he had ability to threaten 7'20 given ideal pacing