Im curious, as a youth when did you see your biggest improvement in runnning.At what age? Was it after a big growth spurt,and how many inches did you grow/weight gain?
Or did you see a linear improvement yearly.Did you ever regress one year even though you didn't have an injury? If so what do you think was the cause.
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i had three that were each significant.
1.) 8th grade to freshman year. training wasn't significantly more....but i grew 7 inches. 5:18 mile to about 4:50 ish.
2.) sophomore to junior year. adjusted to harder training. got gooder.
3.) senior year in college (D1). took awhile to adjust to mileage, racing, etc. got even gooder.
Two things help 99% of all runner improvements. Physical maturity and adjusting to increased training workloads. This is assuming the mental part of wanting to improve is there (which I guess it isn't in a lot of athletes)
"Got gooder"? Tell me that's a joke. The rest of your post seems intelligible so I have to assume you used terrible grammar on purpose there.
Do you remember what weight gain you had when you grew 7 inches?
haha, i'm proud to say that i magically got suddenly decent in 8th grade, just in the middle of the year...ran 6:03, 6:04, 6:01, then i ran a 5:34, then a 5:18 and season ended, but i'm pretty sure i could have gotten to about 5:10. i have no idea how it happened and i wasnt even training hard, just like 2 mile a day for 5 days a week, did about 2 400 repeats twice during the entire season. i was told that i just finally caught up to my body or something like that.
From my freshmen to sophmore year, I went from a 10:10 to a 9:24 in the 3200. Stepped up the milage and intensity during the winter and spring leading up to track 2nd year
From my freshmen to sophmore year, I went from a 10:10 to a 9:24 in the 3200. Stepped up the milage and intensity during the winter and spring leading up to track 2nd year
The question is how much you grew,what age? then tell what time you dropped.
thanks
I'm in 8th grade right now, and I've grown a lot within the last year. My times are getting pretty good now...I think I'm making a transistion now though..getting some real leg speed. I went from 18:21 last year in seventh to 17:25 so far this year. I haven't done a mile yet this year but I would expect around 4:4x as opposed to seventh which I ran 5:05.
that's wild. What did u end up getting ur senior year?
I experienced my most dramatic improvements at 23, 25 and 32. Does that count?
The "got gooder" was a joke. I can't even believe there was a post on that. Anyways, the 8th grade to freshman year 7 inch height increase was probably accompanied by a weight gain from (educated guess at best) 90 to 115 lbs. I went from like 4'11 to 5'6ish. Final competetive racing height/ weight in college was like 5'11 and 135ish. Funny what beer w/o the 80/90 mile weeks will do to a 135 frame.
Went from 5th grade at 90lbs, 5'0" and 5:45 mile to 7th grade at 120lbs, 5'7" and 4:55 mile. From there to my high school PR (junior year) I only got to 155lbs, 5'9" and 4:25 mile. It was just puberty. I definately matured physically earlier than others.
year 5k/mile
9th grade 23:00/5:58
10th grade 20:00/5:27
11th grade 18:00/4:58
12th grade 16:59/4:35
Freshman year college: 15:06/4:05 1500
At this rate Bekele should be worried.