16:25, 46.6 mpw. Ran the race in the middle of May, I started counting this from the first week of January.
As with others, I had a sick period (one week of 8 miles, another of 22) and recovery from that plus the fact that I was initially in very bad shape in January combine to shove down the average; nevertheless, I had a decent number of weeks in the 50s.
Hey stat 201:
I hope you get an A, so I am wondering more about your project. What is your hypothesis? It seems to me that you might be able to design a better study for your class than just asking a bunch of people their prs and mileage. The sample you get is going to have lots of confounding variables such as age, gender, and "talent." If you are trying to prove anything beyond that the correlation between mileage and time is weak, I suggest you retool your data set. For example, if your hypothesis is that higher mileage works, mileage suffers from diminishing returns, or theres a nonlinear relationship, I would think a time series would be better. I would get data on people SEASON bests and SEASON mileage, that way you negate the variables of gender and "talent." If you confine the data to people that are past maturity but not over the hill, you will go along way to limiting the effect of age as a variable. I think an ideal study would be to get the season bests and season mileage of runner 20-30 and then compare correlation. This would be an example:
Me:
age 18--14:40, 65 mpw
age 19--14:26, 75 mpw
age 20--14:06, 90 mpw
age 21--14:31, 70 mpw
age 22--14:15, 85 mpw
age 23--15:10, 45 mpw
age 24--15:50, 20 mpw
this is a very strong correlation and demonstrates the unremarkable position that more training and faster times are highly correlated.
Good luck.
14:5x 60-70
14:30 - 5k
Mileage: 45 - 50 mpw
16:41 40-50
16:12 on the roads as a HS soph.
avg. ~30-35mpw for the year, though the 8 weeks of base I did leading up to it probs averaged ~45-50. I was a half-miler, so that was big time miles for me. Made all the difference in bringing me down from being a low17s type also-ran 800 guy in HS XC races. Got some good top 10s. 4 years later, I'm tryin' to break that time (same course) off of 50mpw, though I took 3 years off.
14:28
3,833 miles that year
74 miles/week average
Not my highest miles/year, week/yr average, but my 5000m PR year. Quality over quantity.
16:00
Around 65-70 mpw.
14:50
60 mpw (1500m training)
16:01 road
44mpw, high 60; Jan to Oct. Age 32
13:54
105 miles/week.
(High week = 140 miles once or twice.)
14:10 on 25 mpw
16:20
20-30 mpw
15:13, ~50 mpw (but had 6 or 7 years of ~70 mpw before that)
14:45
70 mpw
13:37, 90 mpw avg
Good point:
PR (age 24) 16:20, 20-30 miles
Current best (age 45) 19:02 (hillier course), 45-50 miles
5k pr 16:38
MPW: 65
16:20
averaged 68.1 for the ten weeks leading up, with a high of 81 and a low of 40.
I was going to make the same suggestions as econometrics.
me? male, age 44, 17:58.
mileage is a little hard to assess. I had done 45 mpw for 3 weeks at the time of the race and 35 mpw for 3 weeks before that and then about 50-70 mpw of xc skiing for 4 weeks before that and about 30-40 mpw xc skiing for 8 weeks before that.