Number of guys sub-5 divided by number of guys at your HS
Anybody beat my school? 9.166% of guys were sub-5 milers my Sophomore year
Number of guys sub-5 divided by number of guys at your HS
Anybody beat my school? 9.166% of guys were sub-5 milers my Sophomore year
2 or 3%. A kid who now plays in the premier league - and is apparently a standout on his team in the fitness tests - couldn’t.
It was quite competitive at the top, but the all round best athlete in my year got close to breaking 2 minutes in the 800m as a 15 year old off tennis training. I remember that because I spent a year training at an athletics club, was county level, was all annoyed I couldn’t bulk up like the other lads, and then he still battered me.
The question I always had is how many COULD break 5 had they exercised regularly.
Had to be a small school which doesn't count because the population size is too small. 4 brothers did it in the same year while I was in high school but it wasn't enough to put the number over 4%.
7 of us on the track team plus probably 2 soccer players is 9/600 boys so 1.5%
haha yup tiny school we had like 120 guys in HS but we had 11 sub 5 guys:
2 guys around 4:30
4 guys around 4:40
5 guys around 4:55
My junior and senior years, none out of a few hundred. I split 5:05 in the 3200 when I ran 10:27 and maybe I could have made it.
The percentage is sort of silly. There are small private high schools that have 30 students. Imagine if they had 5 guys out if 15.
just a little curious wrote:
haha yup tiny school we had like 120 guys in HS but we had 11 sub 5 guys:
2 guys around 4:30
4 guys around 4:40
5 guys around 4:55
I coach at a similar sized school. I don't think I've ever had more than 2 at the same time. Probably had years where 4 could have, but they didn't all get the opportunity.
Gina be here wrote:
The percentage is sort of silly. There are small private high schools that have 30 students. Imagine if they had 5 guys out if 15.
small private schools should probably not count in this sort of survey. I agree. But small public schools are fair game.
actually, i've had 3 at the same time.
We probably average about one guy per year, some years we might have two, but a lot of years we don't have any.
Roughly 1300 students so I'll assume 650 guys. So 0.15% of guys at my high school could run sub 5.
I went to high school with roughly 600 males, of whom about 10 or so may have run sub 4:40 for 1500m.
More probably had the ability but never did it, so around 2%.
15/1780. So .84%. We had 30 kids run the 1600 so I like that % more.
coachcommentsnicely wrote:
15/1780. So .84%. We had 30 kids run the 1600 so I like that % more.
That is 1780 males and females. I have no idea how many we have of each. If we can assume 50% then it brings the number up to 1.68%
In any one season there were around 8 boys sub 5 and 4 sub 4:40 out of around 60 on the track team and 500 boys in the school. Plenty of others could do it had they trained but even the best soccer players would struggle to just do it cold. I can't recall if I did it until senior year or if I narrowly broke it junior year. Senior year I didn't wrestle, ran indoors and dropped from around 5 to 4:35. Track always sucked following wrestling because after XC I still somehow lost 5-10 lbs to make weight and then I'd gain around 20 lbs the 1.5 weeks following wrestling. Wrestling is brutal and I was plenty fit but both changes in body weight affected track as well as the lack of run specific training.
My point, if I have one, is plenty of other persons could run under 5. They never did because they were in other sports and not running. Many more could if they ran for 3 months or 3 years but maybe there would have been 2 more who could just do it.
Less than 1%