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I was a freshman in HS, so probably about 35 mpw.
Ran 15:45 for the 5k split of my first 8k freshman year. I had been running since 8th grade.
Mileage was somewhere in the 50-60 range.
At that point on the session we hadn't started much of our hard interval work yet. Workouts were tempos, hills, and light fartleks.
1973; age 25. track meet 15:51, weeks later PRd in marathon by 10 min.
Been doing marathon training months before that, been running seriously actually during & since HS. (more on & off). Took it up with mileage increase since 1972, 70 - 90 mpw
1975; PRd in 5 km track meet 15:45. Again off weeks of marathon mileage - could have been maybe 15:30 but for an enroute PR for first 2 miles 9:50 which caused a sag of infinite proportions (so it felt like) for last mile.
Hobby Jogger 4 Life wrote:
When you first broke 16:00 minutes:
1) How long had you been training?
2) How many miles per week were you consistently doing?
3) What types of workouts were you doing?
3 years of running
age 40 (first year) 25 miles per week
second year 35
third year 40
tempo 6 mile at 5:40 pace
vo2max 6 x 3 minute hill hard with 2 minute jog recovery
just dipped under 16 but probably could have gone a bit faster also ran 4:13 1500 off
Bump, I want to learn something.
Hobby Jogger 4 Life wrote:
When you first broke 16:00 minutes:
1) How long had you been training?
2) How many miles per week were you consistently doing?
3) What types of workouts were you doing?
1. 1 year, XC season sophomore in high school
2. 30 mpw
3. Races mostly. Also hill repeats, 3x1 mile, 1:1 fartlek. It was the 1980s, so nothing too scientific. Some days you hard, some days your ran easy, some days you raced.