good stuffs wrote:
I'm just interested in seeing how much talent matters in running. I read some article that stated you lose about 25% of your aerobic ability after 3 months(basically, they'd expect a 20 min 5k to start running 25). Extrapolated then, it might take about a year to back to your "untrained" state. So how fast would you guys run a mile or 5k after a period of no running?
Most time that I have had off since college running has been about 4 months. Ran a two mile road race in 11:00. Ran 25 mpw for a month and ran a 16:34 4:21(1500) double on the track. Fast forward about a year of 25 mpw easy runs I ran a 5k in 16:59 on the track. fast forward one more year year of running about 2-3 times a week I ran 17:52/5:02in a two road races on the same day.
I think I am a 18:00 guy with no running
17:00 guy with little trainng.
5:00 guy with almost no training.
Another thing I have noticed is that I can still roll out decent 200/ 400 times. I have run a 52 second 400 and a 23 second 200every year since highschool at least once a year