Most improvement you've ever seen for a kid in 1 year?

idk man that's pretty drastic

My son ran 18:13 for 4k as an 8th grader and 18:26 for 5k as a 9th grader. In 7th grade his mile PR was 6:44 and he was by far the slowest on the team. Now he's running varsity as a freshman.

Went from 2:17 -> 1:55 (800) and 5:XX -> 4:20 1600 soph year of HS, only ran spring track. (No xc, no indoor)

i went from nothing to 412 1500, 24 200m 57mim 10 mile my first year. did things like 15 x mile workout at 520 530 in the wind on cinder track, crazy

but the training was too hard, and it took six months to recover with LSD, modest mileage.

these times were on dirt, in the rain, lousy shoes, erratic pacing, etc.

off soccer background

you will have dudes out there that will run 350 1500 off soccer at age 15 or so, and the right coach, for sure. without PEDs.

actually in memory you had andrew wheating if i recall that came from "nowhere" to run fantastic quarter and 800.

soccer was the base.

in other worlds nobody comes out of no where.

and real talent does not need PEDs to get to those kind of levels.

I went from 18:44 to 16:21 at Clovis between JR and SR year.

Kids I coach now:

a girl improved from 21:11 --> 19:24 in one year.

a boy improved from 20:05 --> 17:24 --> 16:24 over 3 seasons.

another boy went from 9:41 --> 9:12 in the 3200M

Grandson, 0 to 1 year. From immobile to running. Amazing.

I saw someone go from 9:55 3200m junior year to about 9:15 3200m senior year. Mostly because they weren't very committed to the sport, and then started training in the off season and really picked up their level of training. If you're already doing pretty good training don't expect that big of a jump in one year.

my training went from 2 miles a day

to

4 to 5 miles morning

30 x 200m with 45 sec recovery afternoon

45 minutes of 20 different weights evening

daily

weekend saturday easy running

sunday long run 16 miles

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dont do this. year 1

I had a kid run 16:01 his sophomore year and go 14:52 on the track his sophomore track season. Followed it up his junior season with many low 15 performances

18:23/5:12 (freshman 3 mile, no 3200 time)

16:51/9:59 (sophomore 5k, 3200)

15:51/9:30 (junior 5k, 3200)

15:08/9:10 (senior 5k, 3200)

I went from running being a 25.5 200m and 57.xx in the 400m my freshman year to being a 23.0 in the 200m and 50.xx in the 400m my sophomore year. Growing a few inches certainly helped

I know a girl who ran 31 minutes in her first 5k race freshman year, and improved to something around 19:30 5k (hilly course), 2:20 800, 5:20 mile her senior year

nothing crazy but I just finished xc championships (League) jumping from an 18:15 5k pr to a 16:59 still felt like I left some on the table but happy!

my high school freshman teammate ran 4:27 in 1600m at the end of school year. according to him, his fastest mile before he started running on the team was approximately 7:30

One of my college teammates went from 17:53 to 15:51 in one year. My 8th grade to freshman jump was pretty crazy too: 22:42/5:54 to 18:32/5:17 (and then I ran 17:04 sophomore fall).

7:50 mile last year, 5:20 this year. 27 to 18:50 5k this year

My 15-year-old son improved his 3000 m time from 10:12 to 8:59.

1600m 9th grade 4:49, 10th 4:35 11th: 4:23.5

800m 12th 2:03, College SR - 1:51.67 (never really ran the half seriously in HS)

Just throwing it out there to relive the glory days.

Oh you definitley have sub 18 soon!