I see posts on here about how untrained people just have to put in the work for a few of months and it should be doable for most.
Whereas other people say it takes more talent and a fair chunk of the population couldn't do it if they trained to their potential.
So which one is it?
Bear in mind 6:26 pace is ludicrously fast for 90% of people.
Skater505 wrote:
I see posts on here about how untrained people just have to put in the work for a few of months and it should be doable for most.
Whereas other people say it takes more talent and a fair chunk of the population couldn't do it if they trained to their potential.
So which one is it?
Bear in mind 6:26 pace is ludicrously fast for 90% of people.
It's not about talent. It is about training. And it requires quality training to go sub 19. I'm a 20:40 guy at the moment, but I have issues with doing consistent mileage due to time constraints. More than likely, I will break it this year. I'm in great form, just haven't started my racing season yet. Looking for a certain race to blaze.
My current mileage is about 30-40, which is on the weak side. If I can stay at 40-50 on a consistent basis, I could easily run 18, so that is the plan for this year.
But it isn't just training. I've seen people do 60 mile weeks plus speed work and hardly break 21.
When I was 10 I ran a local 10k, with no training. I went through 5k in 23 minutes and ended up really hitting the wall, walking the last two miles ended up finishing it in 56 minutes. And, I have no natural talent at all. I was pretty chubby. I must of looked like a little white kid version of Henry Romo. Although, I did bike a lot for fun in elementary school and walked to school.
If you take the average american man, aged 20-30, at a healthy weight/BMI but not rail thin, I think that with a few months of running many would run under 20min. By many I mean like 30% within, say, 4 months.
That was the position I was in when I began running, age 18. skinny/skinny-fat but untrained physically. had never shown talent for running during my previous sport history (soccer, baseball, middle school track). I ran a 6:45ish mile in 7th grade when we did some jogging during PE class, plus I was playing soccer.
Pretty much off the couch I could run 9-10min pace for 5k, then after a couple months of doing a couple 2mi runs per week I was down to 23min. after about one month of 25 mpw I did 20:00 for 5k. however, that was starting after I had trained for a sprint triathlon a few months earlier and then did some cycling for a couple months, so I was fitter than average for sure and no longer overweight at all.
With an input of 19:59 of 5k my talent meter reads just over half way. Roughly 539 talent units.
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It takes 33 talent points.
I ran my first 5K at 41 years old, 260 lbs, hungover AF, and not having run a step for YEARS. I did 19:53. Pretty sure anybody could do it if they tried.
It took me five years of structured training to get 19:50. The average person could definitely NOT do it with a few months at 25mpw. If you can, you're above average.
Letsrun lives in a bubble.
LargeLarry wrote:
I ran my first 5K at 41 years old, 260 lbs, hungover AF, and not having run a step for YEARS. I did 19:53. Pretty sure anybody could do it if they tried.
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