Can I PR in the 5k ever again?

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  • Crazy Ate

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    8 years ago 10/08/2015 3:48pm EDT

    I ran mid to high 15's in college and have started training for marathons since I graduated... I have dropped time from 2:55 to 2:45 over 2 years and 3 marathons. I see myself as more of a shorter distance guy, but it's never translated. I'd love to get down to the 15 mid's again and maybe even get lower than that. Current training is marathon specific 85-100 mpw with 20+ every 2 weeks,

    best workout recently has been a cutdown 4x2 mile going from MP down to 10 miler pace 11:56-->10:55 with 1:45 400m recover

    PRs:

    1:55 800

    4:20 mile

    9:12 steeple

    15:40 5K

    2:45 full

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    Juice Springsteen

    Member since 08/12/2015.

    2,570 posts. Last post 10 months ago.
    8 years ago 10/08/2015 6:31pm EDT
    re: Crazy Ate

    I feel like if you adjust your workouts to be more speed oriented then you're golden, given all the volume you're still doing.

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    college jr

    Member since 07/02/2015.

    116 posts. Last post 7 years ago.
    8 years ago 10/08/2015 7:18pm EDT
    re: Crazy Ate

    I'd be trying to crack 9 in the steeple if I were you

  • not a cheap bastard

    reed

    Member since 05/09/2013.

    6,290 posts. Last post 1 month ago.
    8 years ago 10/08/2015 8:14pm EDT
    re: Crazy Ate

    80+ mpw and you can only run 2:45 for a marathon? dang dude that must not be fun. maybe you have mid 2:30s fitness but poor racing? please tell me there's more to it.

    anyway, yeah it probably wouldn't be tough to get back into sub-16 shape. have you done any 10k-13.1 kinda races? you could always try out the 10k for a while before moving back down to 5k

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    runthecountry

    Member since 12/13/2006.

    890 posts. Last post 4 days ago.
    8 years ago 10/08/2015 9:23pm EDT
    re: Crazy Ate

    Crazy Ate wrote:

    I ran mid to high 15's in college and have started training for marathons since I graduated... I have dropped time from 2:55 to 2:45 over 2 years and 3 marathons. I see myself as more of a shorter distance guy, but it's never translated. I'd love to get down to the 15 mid's again and maybe even get lower than that. Current training is marathon specific 85-100 mpw with 20+ every 2 weeks,

    best workout recently has been a cutdown 4x2 mile going from MP down to 10 miler pace 11:56-->10:55 with 1:45 400m recover

    PRs:

    1:55 800

    4:20 mile

    9:12 steeple

    15:40 5K

    2:45 full

    Your college PRs are not too different than mine, just a little stronger than mine, actually:

    1:58 800

    4:20 mile

    16:00 5k

    1:16 half marathon

    Since college (28 now), I have generally done decent mileage with a focus on a track season in the spring.

    PRs now:

    4:15 mile

    14:50 5k

    1:09high half marathon.

    So I would guess you should be able to get down at least to the low 15's with some focused training for next track season.

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