When did you first run under 5 minutes and can you still do it now? What kind base training and workouts did you do and what 800m shape were you in when you cracked 5?
When did you first run under 5 minutes and can you still do it now? What kind base training and workouts did you do and what 800m shape were you in when you cracked 5?
freshman year of high school. i just ran a couple miles every day
ran 4:52 after a couple attempts
ehh wrote:
freshman year of high school. i just ran a couple miles every day
ran 4:52 after a couple attempts
Pretty much same
Yes easy
First did it in '85 and can still do it today.
Didn't run the 1600m until 10th grade and ran a 4:47 at that point, but I did the did the 3200m as a freshman. I came through the first 1600m in 5:09 so I am guessing that I could have run sub 5 min as a frosh had I run a fresh 1600m. That was 1990. I will be running a 1600m TT in about 5-6 weeks (with pacers from my team) so we'll see if I can still break 5 min at age 42. I should be pretty close. So, that's like 27 years.
I was up to my mid 40's.
I stopped racing for a couple years (kept running) and when I hit 50 it I couldn't do it.
Age sucks.
Ran 5:00.4 my last race of freshman year of high school. So had to wait until the next year to get under 5.
I'm 28 now and recently ran 16:24 for 5K. Haven't raced a mile since college but I imagine I could run at least 4:45 if I went down to the track and did a time trial.
A 5:00 minute miler should be able to run between 2:12 and 2:20. I know that is a big range, but a lot depends on the training and fitness. Gender plays a roll too. Plenty of high school girls will run sub 2:15, and still be over 5:10, but they are really going after it in terms of speed.
Letstroll wrote:
When did you first run under 5 minutes and can you still do it now? What kind base training and workouts did you do and what 800m shape were you in when you cracked 5?
I broke 5:00 as a freshman off of probably 30 mpw w/ a lot of 400 repeats (which seem comically slow now but were difficult then) and tempo stuff. I didn't race 800m and would have struggled immensely to crack 2:15. Just too flat in the speed department.
Now I'm running ~40+/- just coming out of summer base for turkey trot season. I recently broke five again w/ no workouts in the six weeks prior except a tempo effort. I suspect I could run 4:45 w/ competition today. Training injury-free since May has been really satisfying.
First broke 5 as a senior in high school (late bloomer). Ran 5-8 miles 3 times a week and did some sprints or stair workouts the other two days of the week. Some lifting here and there and some cross training over the winter because I was hurt.
Probably 25-30mpw.
5.5 years later and I could hop on the track any time of the day, any day of the week and break 5. I got a lot better in college, though.
Never ran the 800m when I broke 5 but I ran a 55.7 400m in my lone attempt at that distance and I ran ~10:50 for 3200m a few different times.
Hope this helps
Broke 5 as a sophomore (4:56) and only came close a few times freshman year (5:09, 5:06). I didn't run very high MPWs for either though.
1) Late April, 1980
2) Cannot at this moment. I still have sub-5 one mile potential.
3) App. 35 miles a week November through February with one hill workout a week. While in T&F season, app. 7 1/2 miles a week of road mileage. I do not add distance from interval workouts and count as mileage. Low mileage because I also had 220/440/200/400 obligations to T&F team.
4) We had a significant amount of 880yds./800m talent on T&F team. I did not race 800m/880yds. season I 1st raced sub-5 one mile. I felt like I could have raced sub-2:10 880yds./800m when I 1st. raced sub-5 one mile.
[Note: I stated yards/metres because 1979 & 1980 we raced on 440yd. cinder/dirt tracks and 400m synthetic tracks.]
Letstroll wrote:
When did you first run under 5 minutes and can you still do it now? What kind base training and workouts did you do and what 800m shape were you in when you cracked 5?
Pretty much anyone who wasn't on Dyestat or Runnersworld in the recent past.
DEER GOD PLEASE BRING BACK THE HOBBYJOGGER FORUMS
My first official mile race I ran 4:12, 5th year of college.
I had run 1:49 for 800 and 3:52 for 1500 at that point, though.
Ran 4:58 at age 38 and never raced a mile since, but passing my mid-forties I can't right now.
Just can't.
I am still trying to break 4 minutes for the mile. Toughie!
POF wrote:
ehh wrote:freshman year of high school. i just ran a couple miles every day
ran 4:52 after a couple attempts
Pretty much same
Yup, me too.
I'm a freshman in college. Workout today was 1600, 1200, 800, 400, 800, 1200, 1600. Ran everything at 5:00 pace until the last mile. I picked it up just a little bit cause I felt good, ran a 4:51. Yes it's 1600 but if you convert it to a mile it's about a 4:53. In fact, I broke 5:00 for a full mile if you include my jog to a stop after the last rep.
7th grade 4:48
49, 4:45 road racr