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Can you run a 5:29 mile?
Yes
Can you run a 5:28 mile?
I don't believe you have better talent than me though
Here is some real data and you can predict what I ended up doing:
At 16-17 fairly active but no organized sports. Pick-up basketball 3-4X a week, ride bike to school 1X or 2X week (but only in good weather, so maybe 3 months of the school year) at 5 miles each way. A little bit of downhill and cross country skiing each winter, say 8 or 10X each over 3 months. Touch football games, 2 hours every week in the fall. Gym was mandatory then so did that, 4X a week. Typical kid stuff/considered semi-athletic at best.
Started running 10 mpw at 18. First spring did 5:20 mile, 12:00 2 mile, 19:20 5K off of that.
What were my PRs? (running 50+ mile weeks over the next decade)
PR's: 4:55 mile, 11 2 mile, 17:30 5k
david45 2.0 wrote:
I don't believe you have better talent than me though
If that is true I find that very unfair.
johnfromSJ wrote:
PR's: 4:55 mile, 11 2 mile, 17:30 5k
So you went from sedentary to 5:30 per mile for 2 miles back to back? All off of 20 MPW training? I think you have above average talent
Outside runner wrote:
Here is some real data and you can predict what I ended up doing:
At 16-17 fairly active but no organized sports. Pick-up basketball 3-4X a week, ride bike to school 1X or 2X week (but only in good weather, so maybe 3 months of the school year) at 5 miles each way. A little bit of downhill and cross country skiing each winter, say 8 or 10X each over 3 months. Touch football games, 2 hours every week in the fall. Gym was mandatory then so did that, 4X a week. Typical kid stuff/considered semi-athletic at best.
Started running 10 mpw at 18. First spring did 5:20 mile, 12:00 2 mile, 19:20 5K off of that.
What were my PRs? (running 50+ mile weeks over the next decade)
I think you have have way above average talent. I predict you have run:
Mile: 4:12
3000: 8:28
5k: 14:20
10k: 30:30
Half: 70:xx
Full: 2:32
johnfromSJ wrote:
PR's: 4:55 mile, 11 2 mile, 17:30 5k
That's about where I was about a year later: 4:49, 17:35.
supragraf wrote:
Outside runner wrote:
Here is some real data and you can predict what I ended up doing:
At 16-17 fairly active but no organized sports. Pick-up basketball 3-4X a week, ride bike to school 1X or 2X week (but only in good weather, so maybe 3 months of the school year) at 5 miles each way. A little bit of downhill and cross country skiing each winter, say 8 or 10X each over 3 months. Touch football games, 2 hours every week in the fall. Gym was mandatory then so did that, 4X a week. Typical kid stuff/considered semi-athletic at best.
Started running 10 mpw at 18. First spring did 5:20 mile, 12:00 2 mile, 19:20 5K off of that.
What were my PRs? (running 50+ mile weeks over the next decade)
I think you have have way above average talent. I predict you have run:
Mile: 4:12
3000: 8:28
5k: 14:20
10k: 30:30
Half: 70:xx
Full: 2:32
Not even close for 10K and under, but right in the ball park for half (a little slower) an full (a couple minutes faster). I think if I had top coaching in college (mostly self-coached or just showed up and did whatever everyone else was doing) I could have been sub 4:20, 8:40, 14:50 in college.
Not even close for 10K and under, but right in the ball park for half (a little slower) an full (a couple minutes faster). I think if I had top coaching in college (mostly self-coached or just showed up and did whatever everyone else was doing) I could have been sub 4:20, 8:40, 14:50 in college.[/quote]
You have above average talent. I am sure you could have run the 10k and below predicted times with proper training.