Are these time goals realistic?

In my opinion 18:30 seems like a more realistic/achievable goal, but there are a lot of variables at play here that we know nothing about (your genetics, height/weight, training compared from last year, etc.)

anapaix wrote:

In my opinion 18:30 seems like a more realistic/achievable goal, but there are a lot of variables at play here that we know nothing about (your genetics, height/weight, training compared from last year, etc.)

Thank you for your input.

What did you run in track?

You can absolutely break 18:00. Depending on how you bump up your mileage, track times, build, etc. 17:30 isn't out of the question.

Just remember as you bump up your mileage to do it slowly and carefully. Also, don't add mileage and intensity at the same time

Make sure you stretch a lot and maybe do some injury prevention stuff (i.e. squats, lunges, core, etc). The fact that you ran that time injured means you have lots of room to improve if you stay healthy

17:30 is definitely possible, but don't make that a rock solid goal either. You would be surprised how far you can go when you don't set arbitrary limits on your performance.

Mush wrote:

What did you run in track?

Well in Track I only raced about 1 quarter of the season because I came down with chicken pox.

I ran a 12:13 3200 (only raced this twice)

And I ran a 5:38 1600 (raced this 4-5 times)

The 3200 was my best event and I think I would've have gotten it down to the 11:30-11:40 range and I think I would have gotten my 1600 down to the 5:20-5:25 range.

I believe that when I ran the 12:13 3200 that I could've done a 18:50 ish 3 mile. Not sure though, but most definitely faster than 19:39

timez wrote:

You can absolutely break 18:00. Depending on how you bump up your mileage, track times, build, etc. 17:30 isn't out of the question.

Just remember as you bump up your mileage to do it slowly and carefully. Also, don't add mileage and intensity at the same time

Make sure you stretch a lot and maybe do some injury prevention stuff (i.e. squats, lunges, core, etc). The fact that you ran that time injured means you have lots of room to improve if you stay healthy

17:30 is definitely possible, but don't make that a rock solid goal either. You would be surprised how far you can go when you don't set arbitrary limits on your performance.

Yeah, we have this guy on the team and his freshman PR was 20:32. Then as a sophomore he ran 17:12, now he's going to be a junior that will probably 6th-7th man on our varsity.

This summer I've lowered the mileage but upped my pace which injury wise is really helping I think. My mileage has looked like this: I run 6 days a week

1st week: 38

2nd week: 37

3rd week: 33.85

4th week: 36.6

Total: 145.45

My pace could go anywhere from 8:30-7:35. It just depends on how I feel. I'd say that the average is probably 8:05-7:50 though.

iguchi wrote:

So is this a realistic goal? Btw this year is exciting for me because I am the 7th man (as of now) on an unbelievably strong Frosh-Soph team.

Thank you in advance.

You think sub 18 for a top 7 frosh-soph team is unbeleivably strong? It's really not. Last year, my team had 10 sophomores and younger break 18, and that was an off year. The year before we had 16. Not that unusual. Even for a school with a whopping 700 kids in it.

iguchi wrote:

So is this a realistic goal? Btw this year is exciting for me because I am the 7th man (as of now) on an unbelievably strong Frosh-Soph team.

Thank you in advance.

You think sub 18 for a top 7 frosh-soph team is unbeleivably strong? It's really not. Last year, my team had 10 sophomores and younger break 18, and that was an off year. The year before we had 16. Not that unusual. Even for a school with a whopping 700 kids in it.

we're_better wrote:

iguchi wrote:

So is this a realistic goal? Btw this year is exciting for me because I am the 7th man (as of now) on an unbelievably strong Frosh-Soph team.

Thank you in advance.

You think sub 18 for a top 7 frosh-soph team is unbeleivably strong? It's really not. Last year, my team had 10 sophomores and younger break 18, and that was an off year. The year before we had 16. Not that unusual. Even for a school with a whopping 700 kids in it.

Our top 2 are going to definitely be sub 16:00, they'll be in the 15:30-15:45 range. After them though we kind of drop off. Our 3-6 men are probably in the 16:30-16:50 with maybe 1-2 going sub 16:30, but then again, we have 2 sophomores this year running varsity that WILL BREAK 15:00. They are both top 5 varsity.

Bump!