Is sub 5:00 for the mile good?

Correction: Anyone and everyone who can race sub-102 or sub-1:42 600m in P.E. in March is capable of racing sub-2:15 800 after 2 1/2 months of outdoor T&F.

5 minute mile while dribbling a basketball is considered world class for a person identifying as female:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVqLBlz4apg

I coach at a decent high school but not good enough to have ever qualified for NXN. We had 12 guys break 17 in XC this year and 25 guys break 18. We typically have 3 guys run sub 2 in the 800 and a dozen guys sub 2:10. We have had years with 3 guys sub 4:20 but a normal year would be 4 under 4:30 and a dozen under 4:45. We have never won a state track title and haven't won a state XC title in 10 years.

Everyone starts somewhere. This is a pretty good time, just keep training and I think you'll be impressed with what you can do. Good luck man!

Congrats to coach at your school. Congrats to the athletes there. You have a lot of sub-17 5K guys. Several sub-2 800m guys and several sub-4:30 1600m guys per season is impressive.

this post seemed to go in a weird direction with some of the responses. If you are a female athlete (which you've said you are) and your training to date has been primarily soccer with no significant running training - running 5:00 in a time trial indicates that you might be very, very talented. I didn't notice what age you are but let's assume you are young, in HS. The very fastest HS women nationwide in any given year would probably run about 4:35 - sometimes a little faster but not much. If you are able to go out and run 5:00 with no interval training or tempo runs or any significant running training you should be able to run 15 to 20 seconds faster assuming your body can hold up to the training. It is too early to get carried away but you might want to consider tackling a road 5K or trying to run as fast as possible at 800M to see if your 5:00 was just a fluke. Even if you are an adult female just going out and time trialing a 5:00 is probably comparable to a male runner running 4:20. If that is really your level of talent without training I would argue that soccer is not the right sport for you

She has sort of disappeared. It is either a troll or someone who does not know how to measure. Maybe she ran a mile on a path somewhere that somebody was a mile. Maybe it was 1500. Maybe it was 1000.

For those wondering, I ran a 1400m instead of a mile because my friend told me the distance wrong. She thought it was funny and told me to ask on this forum when I asked her if the time was good. I put it into a time converter and it said 5:47 mile so obviously a lot worse. Sorry.

I ran a 1400 instead of a mile. Friend told me the conversion wrong.

Apparently someone who doesn't know how to measure. Sorry

Just wonderin wrote:

I ran a 1400 instead of a mile. Friend told me the conversion wrong.

Took guts to print this clarification.

Don't know what year you are, but 5:47 is an okay start.

If you try, I would guess you will run pretty fast this year, if it doesn't conflict with soccer.

what is average? wrote:

CopperRunner wrote:

You won’t find great answers on letsrun.

For me, the 5:00 barrier was the threshold between fast and average, and I think it was the same with the rest of my highschool team.

In my opinion the respectable time barriers are:

2:15 800m

5:00 1600m

10:45 3200m

18:00 5k

In most high schools, about 10 to 40 guys I would say are sub-2:15 capable with one track season. I would say in most high schools, about 10 to 15 guys are sub-18 5K XC capable. Fewer guys capable of sub-5 1600m & sub-10:45 3200m. I would say one female every three years per high school are capable of those performances. There are wide receivers, Am. football, futbol/soccer guys and hockey and basketball players capable of sub-2:15 800m with simply one track season.

10-15 capable of sub-18? Does that matter if they don't actually DO it? Last I checked, I never lost a race to someone who didnt show up to the starting line. Rare for a high school to have 15 guys break 18 minutes. That would be a very deep high school team. Sure, they are out there. Not many.

Are you kidding? Like I said, we had 25 guys break 18 and we got smashed at large meets this year.

It's good if you have had both of your hips replaced or you are participating in the "BEER" mile........

Good teams have 10-15 guys sub 17. Great teams have 10-15 guys sub 16.

NN State for the Win wrote:

Good teams have 10-15 guys sub 17. Great teams have 10-15 guys sub 16.

CC Junior year HS: 5 guys under 15:30 for 3 miles.

Considered one of the top teams but 2nd man injured the week before the state meet.

2nd man normally finished with the competitors who ran 14:40s in that state meet.

1st man - 14:10, 2nd and 3rd- around 15, 4th and 5th around 15:25 (6th and 7th around 15:40).

Rainy and muddy, course was rated 10-13 seconds slow from when dry.

Team that won, and considered one of the top teams (USA): 3 miles

1st man - 14:30, 2nd and 3rd - 14:40s, 4th - 15:10, 5th - 15:25

(again, could take 10 seconds off time)

CC Senior year HS: 5 guys that could break 15 for 3 miles, spread fairly evenly from near 14 to just under 15 minutes. 6th and 7th man would be around 15:10-20.

Considered the top team, or second best.

Other team at the top (USA): 3 miles

1st and 2nd man - 14:30s, 3rd 14:40, 4th - just under 15, 5th - just over 15, 6th - 15:20s

Next year's 1st team in USA: 3 miles

1st man - 14:20, 2nd and 3rd - 14:30s, 4th and 5th - around 15:00.

American Fork's top 5 averaged 15 flat this year.

NN State for the Win wrote:

American Fork's top 5 averaged 15 flat this year.

Mostert's had some great teams out there.

I realize that the post-season CC meets allow runners to significantly lower their season's best times, so that more runners on a team can achieve specific benchmark 5k times (16 min, 17 min).

Used to be CC was for show, track's for dough.

Now, it seems like the internet has glorified the post-season CC meets, so that some runners care more about that than they do about track times.