15:48 5k
9:48 3200
Longest run ever - 15 miles
Second longest run ever - 6.2 miles
Average miles per week - 15
When I graduate from high school, I met a guy who told me he ran 6 miles a day. I thought that was a lot and could barely believe it. Things were different in the mid 80s. Most of the training advice then was less is more, and we didn't have the internet to look up stuff and see that others were doing much more.
800- 1:56
1500- 3:49
longest run - 8 miles about 4 times a year rest were about 6
2:07 800 in relay
4:50 1600
10:20 3200
3 miles XC - 15:55
longest run 8 miles - 1985 (dang old dude)
15 - summer before high school freshman year.
1600 - 4:50
3200 - 10:25
5K - 17:32
LR - 15 miles, right before the start of cross season in August. Our longest runs during the season were 10-11.
2 mile-ish
I don't know my time.
I ran 3 races, that were mandatory for my grade. I've no idea what my time was but my results were
2 miles "XC"
2nd year (7th grade?) 800m - "the slowest 800m I've ever seen" - teacher
3rd year mandatory 2 mile-ish XC (about 250 runners) - last
4th year 2 mile-ish XC - 3rd to last
5th year 2 mile-ish XC - did OK after a bunch of runners stopped for a smoke halfway through.
5th year one lap trial on a grass track (probably not measured) - 3rd in my heat (the winner forgot his running gear and ran in full school uniform, including platform shoes).
I did improve at university, running 2:13 and 2:08 half-marathons.
Cool story, huh?
1:54
4:08
8:53
8k 24:02
12miles
10:12
4:44
2:02
50.X relay
40 minutes maybe?
my frosh year of college i ran XC for the first time. i remember calling my mom after my first 10 miler 2 weeks into fall practice...i was in shock & couldn't believe i had ran so far:)
agc5k wrote:
I'd say the norm is 12-13 mile long run and low 16s 5k, this is one very fast message board. Congrats guys.
How many of the times are actually legit?
Ca$hclay wrote:
agc5k wrote:I'd say the norm is 12-13 mile long run and low 16s 5k, this is one very fast message board. Congrats guys.
How many of the times are actually legit?
Very good question, I'd say 90%. Like the Gerry post for instance was very likely someone pretending to be Gerry.
My athlete with the most range to date:
800: 1:59 (relay)
1600: 4:28 (after a 9:3X 3200)
3200: 9:25
3 mile xc: 15:05
Ran one 14 miler before xc season at peak mileage. Longest run in track was 10 miles.
You will join them. Your long (not longest ever) run now is 12 miles and low 16 is not far for you if you keep training this way. Don't run too hard on your Tuesday workout. Good luck with your training.
10 miles
:55
2:03
4:50
I know who you are wrote:
You will join them. Your long (not longest ever) run now is 12 miles and low 16 is not far for you if you keep training this way. Don't run too hard on your Tuesday workout. Good luck with your training.
haha thanks man, I'll do my best. Good luck to you too (whomever you are)
I'm HfH (...) from that thread that is now dead:P You posted a link there and now I have bookmarked DM.
When I saw your PBs I Immediately knew who you are:P
Serious, don't kill that workout. You are running at a pace way faster than your PB.
If I would convert (is this the correct word?) these times, I would run 8x400 at sub 60 and 8x200 at 28 while my 1500m PB is 64.4 per lap.
That workout would really be IMPOSSIBLE.
wait...i thought the mid-80s was the tail end of the running boom & everyone was still all about high mileage (and that it wasn't until the 90s that people were scared of it). have the bad*ss high-mileage guys who were in their glory days during the 70s/80s been lying to us???
Flagpole wrote:
15:48 5k
9:48 3200
Longest run ever - 15 miles
Second longest run ever - 6.2 miles
Average miles per week - 15
When I graduate from high school, I met a guy who told me he ran 6 miles a day. I thought that was a lot and could barely believe it. Things were different in the mid 80s. Most of the training advice then was less is more, and we didn't have the internet to look up stuff and see that others were doing much more.
Flagpole wrote:
15:48 5k
9:48 3200
Longest run ever - 15 miles
Second longest run ever - 6.2 miles
Average miles per week - 15
When I graduate from high school, I met a guy who told me he ran 6 miles a day. I thought that was a lot and could barely believe it. Things were different in the mid 80s. Most of the training advice then was less is more, and we didn't have the internet to look up stuff and see that others were doing much more.
Not trying to be dick to you, but we are the same age and I grew up in Michigan. I knew by 6th grade that Shorter ran 140 mpw for 10 yrs before I started running in earnest. I knew how Ryun had trained (as a high schooler), how Lindgren had trained (also as a high schooler). I had read profiles on many of the great HS runners of the 70s (Scharsu, Hurst, Beck, Virgin, Salazar, Chris Fox), etc.
Didn't you ever read "The Runner" or "Runner's World" or "Track and Field News" or get "The Harrier"? I had a book called "Cross Country Running" by Marc Bloom that profiled 25 different great HSers who graduated in 1977. Nearly without exception they ran 70-100 mpw. I was not rich, but could afford a sub to one of these mags and read the others at a friend's house or at the library.
Our school had AM practice three days per week for XC and in track season we had AM practice EVERY morning and then met to run once Sat and once Sun (for 12 practices per week). We were not considered a "high-mileage" school.
In the summer before XC I ran the following for ten weeks:
9th - 15-20 mpw (hit or miss) I was not very committed.
10th - 65 avg, one week at 75
11th - 70-85, avg was 79 (went to one XC camp)
12th - 85-105, avg was 94 (went to two XC camps)
So you can't blame the lack of the the internet for not knowing this stuff.
1600-4:53
3200-10:35
XC 5k -17:09 (Junior Year, Senior Year XC was bad for me.)
Longest Run 17 miles, Doubled back with 4 in the afternoon (was at a camp) for 21 that day.
Mileage was kind of all over the place. I hit a couple of 50 mile weeks after my freshman year when I had decided to run a 10k (which I did in 39:40). Most of the time, mileage was in the 35-40 range, but our coach threw in some radical mileage jumps during my senior year (straight up to 70 ish) and we all crashed.
800 - 1:57
1600 - 4:24
3200 - 10:01
XC 5k - 16:06
Longest run - probably 7-8 mi. Mostly just ran a 2 mi. loop near my school as fast as I could every day after lifting for an hour. Needless to say, collegiate training was a bit of a shock.
50.61 400m
1:55.59 800m
4:26.94 Mile
16:04.0 5K
1:17:17 HM
12 miles