How fast were you after 1 year of running?

the mile was too far wrote:

random integer wrote:

10k five days off the couch: 48:50

Same 10k one year later: 38:51

I ran the 880 in junior high so I did run before I started doing roadraces. I ran my first 10k about a month after my last junior high 880 race. (14 years old)

I ran 42:20. By the end of the summer I ran 37:14.

One year later, I ran the same race in 34:50.

congratulations.

11 min 3k

Start Frosh XC (fall): first race ever: 25:45 (YEAH!)

2:15 (frosh track, ~9 months in)

4:54 (track, ~9 months in)

11:03 (track, ~9 months in)

16:14 (soph XC, after good summer)

5:04 mile after 20-30mpw for 9 months training

Double_Dog wrote:

doctorwatts wrote:

At 18 after 1 yr

400m: 60

800m: 2:07

1500m: 4:12

5000m: 16:50

Is that 400m time correct? That seems very slow for someone capable of running a 1500m race in 4:12.

Yep. Fastest 200m was 28 high.

10 years old I ran 5.30 for the mile.

I'm going to take this to mean 1 year of regular training, and I'll make it even a little shorter than than because I'll go with freshman year in track (my middle school had no CC or track teams).

800 - 2:11

1600 - 4:54

3200 - 10:33

Freshman year at 14yrs old:

200: 26.6 outdoors, relay leg

400: 59.2 indoors, relay leg (did about the same outdoors)

800: 2:11.9 outdoors

1200: 3:49 outdoors

Mile: 5:28 indoors though it was early season and I ran stupid by sprinting the first 400 to catch people (it was a DM). Probably would have run b/w 5:05 and 5:10 had I run one outdoors at a proper overall pace.

Started running at age 14 years, 8 months, about two weeks before the start of cross-country freshman year.

Ran 4:56 for 1600 the following May, 30:54 for five miles in July, and 28:57 for 8K on the roads in October. So basically, 30:00 for 5 miles and 17:XX for 5K.

Ran just under 16 for 5K on the roads and low 9:40s for 3200 by the time they let me graduate.

Flagpole wrote:

I'm going to take this to mean 1 year of regular training, and I'll make it even a little shorter than than because I'll go with freshman year in track (my middle school had no CC or track teams).

800 - 2:11

1600 - 4:54

3200 - 10:33

Actually, I go the 1600 wrong...that was the time I ran in my first 1600 ever (and actually it was a mile). I'm not sure what I got my 1600 or mile time down to as a freshman...maybe 4:48.

My "first year" was broken up since I didn't commit to the sport full-time at first. This is how I would define my first year of running.

- Freshman indoor track - 2:14 for 800 meters

- No training for another 8-9 months since I played baseball in the spring, summer, fall

- Sophomore year indoor track - got down to 2:06 for 800

- Sophomore year outdoor track - got down to 54 for 400, 2:03 for 800, 4:30 for 1600, 17:30 for 5k

I credit a lot of that gain to puberty.

random integer wrote:

One year later, I ran the same race in 34:50.

congratulations.[/quote]

Thanks, unfortunately, I didn't get much faster running 33:25 a couple years later and then couldn't run for 18 years. I'll never see those times again nearing 50.

At age 14:

2:11 800

5:07 1600

11:01 3200

One year after first going out for track, 8th grade:

12.0 100 yards on cinder track

One year after training continuously for a year, after realizing, "if you can't run fast - run far," 11th grade:

53 relay (440 yards), 2:01 (880 yards), 4:32 (mile)

Sophomore year of high school, first-time XC runner, absolutely zero summer training. Ran 16:19 for 5K by the end of the season, then ran 4:28/9:33 the following spring in track.

Started in 7th grade

5:20 1600 8th grade

Averaged 3 miles four days a week during xc and track season. Nothing out of season

Started just before turning 19,

800 - 2:08

1 mile - 4:47 (time trial), 4:49 race

5 mile - 27:23 (road), 27:31 8K XC

4:54/11:03

I ran a 20 minute half-marathon PR after running for 3 months aged 44. My previous PR had been set 21 years earlier. I reduced it by a further 6 minutes within a year.