9th grade = 3200 9:39, 800 2:00
9th grade = 3200 9:39, 800 2:00
Straw M Thoroughman wrote:
He's been playing soccer and basketball....
^^ This, the kid has aerobic background development. Maybe even a very large base if either (esp. soccer) had a lot of conditioning involved with it. He's not straight off the couch. Have to think running age (or some aerobic development equivalent) not absolute age.
Age 14:
800 - 2:13 or so
1600 - around 5:15-5:20
5K - 20:37
I think a ran a 58 400 in practice once that year.
pinoy wrote:
11.5 for 100m, 23.2 200m, 57.4 400m
Very slow 400m for someone running 23.2 in the 200m. Is one or the other a typo?
hello.... wrote:
9th grade = 3200 9:39, 800 2:00
that's an 3200 incredible time for a 14-year old. I presume that must have led the nation for freshman at that distance when you did it as I would think it's quite unusual for 14-year olds to go sub-10.
not very. I joined the xc team at 14. My first race was over 24 minutes. I knocked a few minutes off that year, but still was a back of the packer. What I would have given to have run track and xc in middle school.
I was actually 15 in the 9th grade. I had a teammate that ran 9:28 for 3200 in the 8th grade, he was 14 at the time.
pinoy wrote:
11.5 for 100m, 23.2 200m, 57.4 400m
whatsmyname wrote:Very slow 400m for someone running 23.2 in the 200m. Is one or the other a typo?
hello.... wrote:
9th grade = 3200 9:39, 800 2:00
whatsmyname wrote:
that's an 3200 incredible time for a 14-year old. I presume that must have led the nation for freshman at that distance when you did it as I would think it's quite unusual for 14-year olds to go sub-10.
Neither of those two posts seem out of the ordinary to me. Sprinters who can't run a 400? That never happens....right?
For the record I ran 2:13 for 880 yards as a 14 year old. Probably 2:18-2:20 after four weeks.
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I ran a 5:10 1600, and a 18:30 5K.
I ran a 2.1 mile freshman XC race at the beginning of 9th grade in 12:40, so right around 6:00 Pace. My 5K PR that year was 18:48 on a course that was probably a little short. My lifetime PR's from senior year of college were 26:00 8K and 32;27 10K on the track.
Your guy seems to have decent talent, can be hard to tell at that age but they're certainly on the right track.
I played other sports other than XC and track until my sophmore year but still could do a sub 6 mile and 22 min 5k at 14.
I was around 18:15 just before my 15th birthday. I had never run track.
Ended up being clearly a mid-distance guy with PRs of:
48.6
1:48.01
3:52.5
16:01
Freshman times (14 years old);
3200m - 9:55
1600m - 4:46
In my previous post the time and distance was JH. Later that year a week or so before district xc and a couple of weeks before my 15th birthday the coach gave the following instructions for the last half mile interval, of the season, on the track: "First lap at pace, the second lap I don't care what you do."
2:12
How many of you read the stories about the family from Minnesota, or was it Michigan, back in the late 1980's early 1990's. The dad tried to make his 5 kids, and I mean kids into good distance runners. He had a 6 year old doing a 5k. He had all his kids competing in races, doing workouts, running unreal miles per week. One 11 year old, ran a 2:55 marathon in Los Angeles.
They were not heard from very much in teenage or later.
9th grade pr's
xc 5k: 16:45
3k: 10:2x
1500: 4:35
high school boys can improve/change so drastically during their high school years that it's nearly impossible to judge their talent based on freshman year results. My high school team had 3 kids who went from 20min 5kers to sub-17 guys in 1 year.
880 2:15
Mile 5:07
when i was 14 i ran 10:12 for the 2 mile, 455 for the mile and 2:18 in the 800. i went on to run 9:14 and 4:18