My 5K PR is 15:45. Am I the median for Letsrun?

What have you done for me lately?

18:23

14:50 on the road

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5K PR's:

Track: 14:04

Road: 14:46

My PR's are out of whack, but as for a straight up 5k on the track:

15:47

However, I averaged 14:48 in my 10k PR (on the track as well) and have run my 5k pace for 10 miles on the road. Never really understood how every 5k race after my freshman year in college I bombed. At least it makes a good story.

Statman Crothers' 5,000 list of letsrunners:

5000m

13:09.19 Marius

13:10.29 (David Kimani RIP)

13:19.60 Ryan Wilson

13:19.6 (Paul Cummings RIP)

13:21.6 CjF2753

13:23.72 Torpey Fan

13:24.13 Tim Broe

13:27.05 the doc

13:28.41 Hinderloppet

13:32.15 dick

-10-

13.34.0 Scharsu

13:35.08 Ryan Shay

13:37.69 undisclosed lurker

13:38.6 Fry

13:42.4 Dvorak

13:43 Squid

13:43.00 mm

13:44.92 one percent

13:45.09 emack

13:46.2 DBELCO

-20-

13:46.4 eddy

13:46 Mew from MO

13:48 parkeave

13:48 Toby Tamser

13.49.16i Dominic Middleton

13:50 Northwest Master

13:51.92 scottyT

13:51i gentlemansavage

13:53.2 malmo

13:54.10 Wejo

-30-

13:54 Hodgie-san

13:54 denton

13:56 Teddy Mitchell

13:58.21 ChristianHesch

13:58 runner

14:00.03 pistol77

14:00.69 over the hill

14:02.2 Disregard the obvious

14:03 britboy

14:03.69 tenement on wheels

-40-

14:05 chgray

14:07 jimh

14:09 The Unknown Runner

14:10 Uncle_Rubarb

14:10 WILLIE MCCOOL (RIP)

14:13 Donrad

14:13 Justin

14:14.92 Stormin

14:14 KC Track

14:17.52 Kevin Sullivan

14:17 Coachmva

14:18 winner

14:19.56 carltonfisk

14:19 BustThisNut

14:20.78 dsk

14:20 SpeedyP

14:22 Grote

14:22.1 JK

14:22 Ex-DIII

14:23 Joe Rubio

14:23 Cohen

14:25.44 JPat

14:25 fullem

14:26.9 jrn

14:28.27 GRod

14:29 McManus

14:30 hotelyorba

14:30 E_Smith

14:31 ausrunner26

14:31 lester hayes

14:34 Van Hooijdonk

14:34 WindmillChasr

14:37 21 years

14:37.08 Mike_McCready

14:37 hootie

14:38 Haywood Jablowmee

14:39 sub 206

14:40 mitjones

14:41 knightman

14:43 sb

14:43 sevatonic

14:45* scott hubbard

14:52 covered wagon

14:57 Albany_Runner

14:38 cooker

14:39 good show gents

14:40 Tom T

14:41 ATL's finest

14:41 PortlandRunner

14:45 skizzim

14:47.2 BDG

14:47.3 Mr. Potato Head

14:47i affirmationbaby

14:47 marathnr

14:48.0 Joseph Aloysius McV.

14:48.58 steveu

14:48 Out of shape guy

14:48 sleddog

14:48 Chris Stait

14:48 kwkbrook

14:48 FormerD2

14:49 sehon40

14:49 DougC

14:53 BB

14:53 thedina

14:55 Richter

14:55 toro

14:56 Brian

14:57 Scott Douglas

14:58 McFredson

14:58 steeple94

15:01 RUNINTHESUN

15:01 Sully

15:02 Jon "The Baptist"

15:02 JEH

15:06 The Dude

15:06 The Kid

15:06 Zat0pek

15:09 Kamikaze

15:10 Benedict

15:11i shipalum

15:12 DIICoach

15:12 conto

15:12 MSUrunner (17 PR)

15:13 King of Karma

15:13 eby

15:14 GaryB

15:14.1 NT

15:14.6 esamarathon

15:14 danwelsh

15:15.5 bazza

15:15 chucko

15:15 S_Davis

15:18 Chad

15:18 fatoldguy

15:20 howie

15:20 Larunner

15:20 hahaha

15:21.19 SI

15:22i Runin

15:24 blackness

15:24 Bubba1

15:24.24 A_Goofy_Runner

15:25 TMAC

15:26 kartelite

15:26 Phila

15:26 RR

15:26 10krunner

15:28 jmoss

15:31 Jimmy

15:32.2 RedDragon

15:34 HRE

15:35 nikeman

15:35.11 allen

15:37 sjm1368

15:40 runnerryan

15:45 songdog

15:45 Gaylord Focker

15:45 morceli1978

15:46.5 scxc

15:57 erik

15:59 Average_Joe

16:07 BryanB2

16:08 Road Dog

16:12 vicarious

16:24, BCT

16:24 fatnslow

16:31 girlyrunner

16:46 SS

16:49 du-can

16:50 Fat Dude

17:22 Streakmarine

17:38 observer (chick)

17:40 JDOGXC

17:42 LateGirl (chick)

18:11 Creepy Gus

18:36 Pretzel Lover

18:46 Slowtwitch??

19:07 Pretzel lover

21:19 Godspeed

its ok wrote:

Every thread like this inherently biased toward faster people. Faster people are most likely to post, slower people are more likely to just go on to the next thread.

Agreed!

27:44 and trying to get faster!

16:27

My life's goal is to crack 16, but, after trying everything, I just don't know how to get there...

62-59-1 ..... I'm not going to count Zat0pek's post since it is impossible to tell who has already posted.

15:10

kartelite wrote:

14:59

Hey kartelite ... nice pr improvement. Statman Crothers list shows you at "15:26 kartelite". How did you take take that must time off your pr? I'm suspecting PEDs ;-)

Great job.

15:18

17:48 now - in mid-40's. 16 as a young man. I would guess that only a small percentage of people on letsrun reported their PR and many people are making up times. There are very few people doing 15:45's in local races and maybe 10 people under that time even in large races with 3000 people or more. If 15:45 is the median, than the letsrun community is only the top <0.5% of people who race.

Most people on here are probably in college, which means 15:45 is probably the average time. After all that is about 150th at the Stanford invite alone, and that is for those who get in...

18-yr. old HS senior - 15:26 XC.

14:55

I think as more and more people get into Letsrun the medium PR will get slower.

There are many novice runners or people getting into serious running after age 35 which would not likely have PR's under 16:00.

ive done 17:52 off basically no training for 2 months at age 15. havent run a flat 5 in a while tho.. last time i did one was an uphill off road course i did in 18:03.

16:23 (XC 14 years ago at age 17)

Today I could probably just get under 21 minutes. But I'm in better OVERALL shape today at 30.

65 faster, 63 slower, 1 tie.