Bring on the anecdotes
Bring on the anecdotes
25
Whatever Ritz could have run a 200 in (yes, I know he never actually broke 4).
Probably just under 25.
26
You will never know the answer. An athlete who focuses on 1500m/one mile from age 12 to age 27 is not simultaneously training to maximize 200m potentional.
26.x seems like the threshold. 27 could be technically possible but I think it would correlate to an 800 that is too slow. You’d have to run like a metronome
Did we ever find out what Chris Derrick’s best 800 is?
I ran 24.9 hand timed running start in a workout. It was my fastest ever 200m. I broke the 4 minute mile, 3.59, was a slower than nearly all my peers in sprinting speed.
52.9
1.52.9
3.41.3
3.59.4
7.51.5
All official track times
Mid 25. The times would be:
400 - 54.0
800 - 1:54
Mile - 3:59.9
I'd say 26.5 to 27.0.
29.9
[(4*60)/1609]*200
= 29.83 seconds.
This is the slowest possible time.
Is it realistic; no.
Ask the guys ... wrote:
You will never know the answer. An athlete who focuses on 1500m/one mile from age 12 to age 27 is not simultaneously training to maximize 200m potentional.
True but what people really want to know is how fast the guy who broke 4 would run like 4 days latter. I am willing to bet for 250k, they all break 26. Most distance guys have no clue about their sprint speed. They never line up and run a 200/400m when remotely rested and instead we get the well I ran a 55s at the end of doing 12x400 once and that is the fastest I have gone.
about low 23 seconds,i guess.
malmo wrote:
I'd say 26.5 to 27.0.
Surely anybody could run a 200m at least 4 seconds quicker than their mile pace? Otherwise one would be literally sprinting the mile (using the anaerobic system almost completely), which is not possible.
trans women are women! wrote:
I ran 24.9 hand timed running start in a workout. It was my fastest ever 200m. I broke the 4 minute mile, 3.59, was a slower than nearly all my peers in sprinting speed.
52.9
1.52.9
3.41.3
3.59.4
7.51.5
All official track times
If you had continued training for longer distances here are the times that you might have achieved for the following distances
5000 - 13:25
10,000- 27:50
Half marathon - 1:02
Marathon - 2:09-2:12
Honestly, your track times are very respectable and some world class distance runners were slower than you or just about equal to you over 1500 m. I’m thinking of people like Carlos Lopez, Meb Keflezhigi, Pierre Levisse (French 10,000 record holder in 1979, 27:50) and others.
Lopes, not Lopez.
trans women are women! wrote:
I ran 24.9 hand timed running start in a workout. It was my fastest ever 200m. I broke the 4 minute mile, 3.59, was a slower than nearly all my peers in sprinting speed.
52.9
1.52.9
3.41.3
3.59.4
7.51.5
All official track times
Close.
1960 Olympic 5k champion, Murray Halberg, back in 1958.
220 25secs
440 52secs
880 1.52
1500m 3.38.8
I mile 3.57.8
surely not wrote:
malmo wrote:
I'd say 26.5 to 27.0.
Surely anybody could run a 200m at least 4 seconds quicker than their mile pace? Otherwise one would be literally sprinting the mile (using the anaerobic system almost completely), which is not possible.
You must be new around here?
trans women are women! wrote:
I ran 24.9 hand timed running start in a workout. It was my fastest ever 200m. I broke the 4 minute mile, 3.59, was a slower than nearly all my peers in sprinting speed.
52.9
1.52.9
3.41.3
3.59.4
7.51.5
All official track times
what the hell is your name. jesus.
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