Anyone run a 4:30 mile after just 2 years of running?

Fluffy wrote:

You guys are so full of crap its unbelievable. Complete BS. Unless you had German Fernandez talent there's no way you ran a 4:26 after only 9 months.

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German Fernandez Talent = 4:22 after 4 months

4:30 after one year is not that remarkable, depending upon how old you happen to be when you start and how much you train. I started running before my junior year in high school and couldn't break 11:00 in two miles that year. In my second year - senior year - I ran 4:28 mile, 9:23 two mile. The next year - freshman in college - I ran 14:29 5K, 8:23 3K and 30:20 10K on the road. It's all just training.

kenyan style wrote:

Have you? Or at least come close to this in that amount of time?

Started in the 7th grade running outdoor and popped a 4:30.5 mile my freshman year (age 14). That was a very long time ago.

Started running in the summer before my HS soph year and ran 4:18 in the spring.

Guy on my soccer team ran a 4:19 on the track without any formal running training, just soccer.

Yep, not really that special.

runr wrote:

4:30 after one year is not that remarkable, depending upon how old you happen to be when you start and how much you train. I started running before my junior year in high school and couldn't break 11:00 in two miles that year. In my second year - senior year - I ran 4:28 mile, 9:23 two mile. The next year - freshman in college - I ran 14:29 5K, 8:23 3K and 30:20 10K on the road. It's all just training.

What was your training like?

4:51 as a frosh running about 15/20 mpw (never ran before)

4:33 as a soph same mileage

4:18 as a Jr same mileage 25/30 mpw (ran xc previous fall)

4:12 as a Sr same mileage 30/35 mpw (ran xc previous fall)

Yup. 5:46 8th grade intramural track (3x a week stuff)

4:30.x soph year on 25mpw

Taft College: I ran a 3:52.3/1500 that year.

started running jr year high school. 4:45 pr

Senior year was a 4:22.

Fluffy wrote:

Running on Empathy wrote:

I ran 4:26 after only 9 months of running. Senior year of HS, got tired of being a slacker and turned out for cross country that fall. Decided I liked running. Ran the 4:26 at the state track meet the following spring.

Wished I would have turned out sooner.

You guys are so full of crap its unbelievable. Complete BS. Unless you had German Fernandez talent there's no way you ran a 4:26 after only 9 months.

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Absolutely possible and that takes nowhere near Fernandez talent. A Freshman on my track team in high school ran in the 4:20s his first season in track. Oh, and he didn't even run XC the previous fall. He was a good soccer player for a few years before that, but that was it.

Ok, I wasn't going to post, but when I saw Fluffy's comment, I had to. Of course this is possible. It happens all the time in high school. Kids get cut from soccer and start running. Next thing you know, they're running. 4:30. Ask any 4:30 high school runner about their training and you'll probably find that they don't do much at all. For someone with talent, a 4:30 is more than reasonable with minimal training.

At 14 I ran 5:00 for the mile. One year later 4:37 and a year after that 4:21. All this was done on almost no training 15-20mi/week. I did whatever I could to avoid practice in HS.

I ran 60 mpw religiously as a high school senior and 70 mpw religiously as a college frosh. the usual track and cross country interval sessions, and lots of racing. Nothing fancy.

I was able to run at age 2.

No way I could run 4:30 at age 4.

Thanks Mr Obvious. *. You ARE witty. This is letsrun.com, a forum for recreational running and racing. It's not a place people come to talk about running to catch a bus or running during recess. It's generally understood that, when someone talks about "running" they're talking about running for fitness or training.

One other things, he means 4minutes and 30second, not 4hours and 30minutes. Just making sure you got that since you can't seem to figure this stuff out on your own.

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That's the Ummm wrote:

Guy on my soccer team ran a 4:19 on the track without any formal running training, just soccer.

Total and absolute BS. Go crawl back in your hole.

actually, didn't Franklin Sanchez do something like that? Not impossible, I don't think.

Freshman year first year of running, ran 4:42 off around 30-36mpw

Sophomore year ran 4:29 off 40-45 ish mpw in outdoor.