I ran a 1:20 Half my sophomore year in HS, is this just a decent time or a good time for someone my age? what might i be able to run in the future for a half or full?
I ran a 1:20 Half my sophomore year in HS, is this just a decent time or a good time for someone my age? what might i be able to run in the future for a half or full?
It's about equal to running a 5 minute mile in terms of equivalent performances at shorter distances. Probably a little faster, since most training for HS distance runners are is optimized for shorter races.
youngman wrote:
I ran a 1:20 Half my sophomore year in HS, is this just a decent time or a good time for someone my age? what might i be able to run in the future for a half or full?
Not very remarkable. It just seems fast because virtually no high school athletes are going to be trying a half for comparison.
How much you improve depends on your training level and talent development so far.
I think some of the better runners in HS do that for a long run in the summer.
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youngman wrote:
I ran a 1:20 Half my sophomore year in HS, is this just a decent time or a good time for someone my age? what might i be able to run in the future for a half or full?
Geesh people. It's a decent time op! But depends on your standard of "good." Of you mean 420 mile is good, then no but you're well above average.
OP,
It depends on your mileage to this point. I ran a 1:20 in the summer between my sophomore and junior years of high school off of an average of 40-45 MPW, I probably hit 50 once or twice in my life at that point and that was my longest run ever for mileage. To me, if your mileage is low that's pretty good.
If you've done 12-13 mile long runs on the reg before it and max at 70MPW it's still good but probably doesn't hint at as much raw potential.
I also had a friend who ran 1:13 off of 50MPW around that age, he ended up running 2:24 later on.
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