Say you've got someone running a 16:00 5k. How many months would he have to train to run a 15:00 5k, assuming no gaps in training?
Say you've got someone running a 16:00 5k. How many months would he have to train to run a 15:00 5k, assuming no gaps in training?
You need to give a whole lot more detail for anybody to give you ANY useful insight. The correct answer certainly lies between 0 and infinity. Without more detail, nobody can hope to give you a more precise answer. If they do, you'll know they are making it up.
Yes.
I'm talking on average
wiz khalifa wrote:I'm talking on averageOK, that's better. The average would be somewhere between 1 month and three years.
Tell us more... How old? Male/female? Other PBs / PRs? Recent race progression? Years training and racing?
Male but come up with the rest yourself. this is supposed to be fun guys
Like a choose your own adventure but you have to start with a 16 min 5k and end with a 15 min 5k
The subject is a male, 40ish years old, recently run 16:00 for 5000. Training and racing seriously for> 15 years, PB of 15:55, set about a year or two earlier. Has also run 4:10 for 1500, and a 73:XX half.
This runner will never (absent growing wings) hit 15:00. So in this case the answer is infinity.
Now you go... tell us more about yourself.
I went from 16:00 to 15:00 in 3 years, but may have accomplished it in 2 years if I had run a 5k that year.
I am not the subject of this thread, bucko
wiz khalifa wrote:I am not the subject of this thread, bucko
So you say. Yet the premise of your thread is idiotic. Here's a similarly vague and unanswerable question, maybe you can answer this for me:
How long will it take me to get from over here to over there?
It's not an idiotic question. I would think there would be people here who have gone from 16 to 15 or who know someone who did.
Of course, a great many people have gone from 16 to 15. In fact, every single person who's run 15 has done so. And every single one of them took a different path.
If you constrain the question better, you can get meaningful input. If you leave it purposefully wide open, as you seem to want to insist on doing, then you should expect to get stooped answers like this one.
Somebody who is seriously training who can only hit 16 minutes in a race will never run 15 minutes. Somebody who is a teen can probably do it within 2 years. So about 99% will never make that leap. The average is infinity.
wiz khalifa wrote:
Say you've got someone running a 16:00 5k. How many months would he have to train to run a 15:00 5k, assuming no gaps in training?
Depends of course in a couple of things. Things like talent and what kind of training is done. If it`s quite a good talent with good ground sprint speed it takes me at most a year to do such a coaching. magic AT coachjs DOT se
wiz khalifa wrote:
It's not an idiotic question. I would think there would be people here who have gone from 16 to 15 or who know someone who did.
I coached an Irish master runner age 43 from 16.30 5k down to 15.37 in just 2 months!
wiz khalifa wrote:
I'm talking on average
On average most athletes running 16 minutes will never run 15 minutes.
wiz khalifa wrote:
It's not an idiotic question. I would think there would be people here who have gone from 16 to 15 or who know someone who did.
Most guys I've known running 15 or better have never run 16 or slower as a senior you have to look back to when they were at school.
If you are over 20 and already in full training it's going to take a couple of years assuming you have the talent. Even then you'd probably need to significantly improve mileage to do it
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wiz khalifa wrote:
It's not an idiotic question. I would think there would be people here who have gone from 16 to 15 or who know someone who did.
I coached an Irish master runner age 43 from 16.30 5k down to 15.37 in just 2 months!
So after another 2 months was he running under 15 or are you just full of Irish blaney!
There is no magic wand only people full of bs
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