What is your height and weight? (for stat project)

ukathleticscoach wrote:

ChubsyUbsy wrote:

6' 2"

148 Lbs

Male

46yrs old

50 miles per week

running for 32 years.

Would be interested to know your training and how you avoid injury as I find minor injuries accumulate after running so long

Hopefully this doesn’t hijack the thread…

While I haven’t been injury free, I have been pretty fortunate in staying healthy. Some people may think that’s simply because I haven’t worked hard enough :). I probably could have run faster if I trained harder when I was younger, but I am pretty happy that I can still get out the door relatively pain free 8 or 9 out of every 10 days and be somewhat competitive.

The consistency of the work has paid off over time since I have never been “out of shape” but have not really trained on the razor’s edge. As the great American philosopher “Dirty Harry” Callahan once said, “A man’s got to know his limitations”.

When I was younger, I never ran more than 95 miles in a week and rarely was over 70. Since I reached age 40, I have tried to keep my mileage consistently around 50-60mpw. I did increase that up to about 80 before my last marathon. That was successful, but I would not able to maintain that level for over 2 months without breaking down.

In general, I do one tempo run, one long run and either one Rep or Fartlek workout each week. All other days are easy 6 milers. I am Ok with taking a day off or adding another easy day if I feel run down or feel like an injury is coming on. I do flexibility exercises in the morning and evening. I eat pretty well and just try to avoid doing anything stupid (physically at least) that might lead to injury.

I hope that helps. Good luck getting back from your injury.

5'10"

162 lbs

23, male

Retired runner but I play bball 5-6 times a week. Figured I'd help outside of the runners.

5'10.5"

132 lbs (morning weight)

60

running 40 years

bike/run/ski varies seasonally (of course)

100 mpw bike

10-20/week running (non-winter)

5-20 mpw skiing

male, 43, 5'11'' 138, running for 29 years, 45 mpw

male, when i was a 19 year old runner, 5'8", 130 lb, 50-60 mpw

33 years old

6 "1"

158

110+ per week

100 percent of mileage up and down mountains in flats

M

6' 190#

15 MPW

running for 10 years

Male

Upon college graduation (May2008):

6'0"

127 lbs

75-120mpw

Age: 23

Now:

6'0"

139

20mpw

Age: 26

Height: 5'11-1/2", Weight: 158, Age: 51, Gender: Male

I average 40-50 miles per week

I've been running consistently for past 5-1/2 years, but had run extensively in HS and a few years post-HS. Not much in the intervening period.

6'0"

148-152

Age 29

MPW: 100

5'8"

135

Age: 40

MPW: 60 when no marathon the horizon, 70-90 during marathon cycle.

8 years of adult running. A few years in JR High.

Could weigh 10lbs less, but for my love of pastries and beer (not consumed at the same time, obviously).

Male, 50

5'6"

130.4# this am

wkly avg 60

3 workouts LR, intervals, hills(or tempo) each week

1 day off most weeks

college XC

post college age- group competitior through age 34-ish

recreational jogger for about 6 years @ 20mpw

renewed training program about 3 years ago

recent 3:12 marathon (that's :20 under for 2012)

43 years old. 6 foot. weight 137. I am currently averaging 85 miles a week training to break 3 hours at boston this spring.

5'9"

138 lbs. (Racing Weight)

Age 21

MPW:currently about 70, ran as much as 110 in the fall

+bike about 4-5 hours a week.

So I'm assuming the chapter on voluntary response bias hasn't come up? Runners take odd pride in their strangely low weights, so you're probably going to get a bunch of borderline anorexics. (also, if it's not obvious already, you're getting a bunch of liars--good luck separating the lies from the facts).Also, how do you define "runner"? The 15mpw guy (5'7" 235#) who posts on runnersworld.com would claim to be just as much a runner as the guys here who run 10x that much. More importantly, the level of the athlete really comes into play for the other sports: high-school, college, and pro-level players obviously have different height and weight characteristics (not to mention that if you went to a punter's message board and used those stats for your stupid project you'd have totally meaningless "football" data). And then you run into the obvious problem that many if not most of the runners here are amateurs. What the f*** is an amateur football player? Have YOU ever seen a game played? Or amateur baseball? Is the overweight guy who plays pickup basketball once a month a "basketball player"? It's idiots like you who compare apples to oranges who give statistics a very bad name. My guess is you'll get frustrated with the BS here and only use data the prove your hypothesis. I hope (pray?) that your teacher/professor (God help us all if he had a Ph.d) wasn't dumb enough to approve such nonsense when you can't even define who should be in your survey. Not that you care.Oh right, Male 6'1" 105#, 10mpw. Or 5'2" 285#, 110mpw.

Stat student wrote:

I'm doing a statistics project where I'm analyzing the height and weight of runners compared with other sports (baseball players, football players, basketball players, etc.) as well as non-athletes.

My hypothesis is that runners will, on average, weigh at least 15 pounds less than other athletes of similar height (+/- 1 inch), and will weigh at least 25 pounds less than non-athletes of similar height (+/- 1 inch).

Please, state your Height, Weight, Age, and Gender.... If you would like, please share your weekly mileage and how long you've been running.

Thanks!

Age 19

Weight 118

height 5'5"

60 miles a week, running for 6 years

5'11.5"

154 lbs

120-130 mpw

10 years of running

26

6'2''

170

50 mpw

8 years

6' 1"

158 lbs.

36 years old

Male

Run 35 to 55 MPW, depending on the season/my health

Run off and on (on, for the most part) since age 8