How do you know if you have the talent to run D1?

Contact the coaches at "schools like Stanford" and ask them. There is no other correct answer to your question.

Someonewhoknows wrote:

Contact the coaches at "schools like Stanford" and ask them. There is no other correct answer to your question.

That or you can look at their tfrrs results and see what those kids run currently and what they run now… if you are a 4.30 guy or 5.30 you are not going to get on the team. If you are a 4.15 or 5.0x girl maybe worth an email.

What would it take a guy to run sub 4:10?

Which is mindblowing since the average person can't even break 5 after years of hard work

Hey david45.

theoreticalasker wrote:

How do you know if you have the talent to run D1 at schools like Stanford?

Well I did but I did not even know it for sure as a senior in HS. I was chubby and undertrained. But I did not even know that I was undertrained. Sometimes you don’t know for sure until you try.

theoreticalasker wrote:

How do you know if you have the talent to run D1 at schools like Stanford?

When they give you a call.

theoreticalasker wrote:

How do you know if you have the talent to run D1 at schools like Stanford?

You know you don’t coz your handle is david45 and you are a fapbot.

Running at Stanford is not solely about times. Yo I need to excel in the classroom as well. Tons of blue chip guy and girls can’t go to Stanford and end up going to Oklahoma State, NAU, Michigan and Notre Dames of the world.

I'm not an American, but I would say by your senior year in high school you should be putting up at least one of the following times on the track

800m: 155/56

1500m: 3:53 or better

mile: 4:10

3000m: 8:30 or better

Stanford is an elite school, so maybe these times wouldn't even make the grade there.

But should at least allow you to walk on.

There are lots of bad D1 teams. You dont need to be remotely fast if you just want to run D1.

Use this thing called Google.

Alan

Greg wrote:

I'm not an American, but I would say by your senior year in high school you should be putting up at least one of the following times on the track

800m: 155/56

1500m: 3:53 or better

mile: 4:10

3000m: 8:30 or better

Stanford is an elite school, so maybe these times wouldn't even make the grade there.

But should at least allow you to walk on.

1:55? No way...

bcdgv wrote:

Running at Stanford is not solely about times. Yo I need to excel in the classroom as well. Tons of blue chip guy and girls can’t go to Stanford and end up going to Oklahoma State, NAU, Michigan and Notre Dames of the world.

Notre Dame is pretty darn academically elite.

Grassrunner wrote:

Greg wrote:

I'm not an American, but I would say by your senior year in high school you should be putting up at least one of the following times on the track

800m: 155/56

1500m: 3:53 or better

mile: 4:10

3000m: 8:30 or better

Stanford is an elite school, so maybe these times wouldn't even make the grade there.

But should at least allow you to walk on.

1:55? No way...

I used those times as a guideline. I knew a guy from Canada who received a D1 full scholarship. He ran 1:56 and 4:09 for the full mile. He went to a Conference USA school. This was almost 20 years ago.

155/56 is a decent 800 time for more of a distance runner. I think you'd need 1:52 or better if you were being evaluated as an 800 runner.

Greg wrote:

Grassrunner wrote:

1:55? No way...

I used those times as a guideline. I knew a guy from Canada who received a D1 full scholarship. He ran 1:56 and 4:09 for the full mile. He went to a Conference USA school. This was almost 20 years ago.

155/56 is a decent 800 time for more of a distance runner. I think you'd need 1:52 or better if you were being evaluated as an 800 runner.

And 1:55 is probably good enough to at least walk on at any D1 school. I think that sounds fair.

Greg wrote:

Greg wrote:

I used those times as a guideline. I knew a guy from Canada who received a D1 full scholarship. He ran 1:56 and 4:09 for the full mile. He went to a Conference USA school. This was almost 20 years ago.

155/56 is a decent 800 time for more of a distance runner. I think you'd need 1:52 or better if you were being evaluated as an 800 runner.

And 1:55 is probably good enough to at least walk on at any D1 school. I think that sounds fair.

You can walk on with a 4:35 mile at plenty of D1 schools for that matter. I was just responding to your original statement. If we're talking about scholarships to Stanford and the only one of those times you could produce was the 1:55 you're not going to be in theconversation. The other times are stronger if you had any one of those.

Grassrunner wrote:

Greg wrote:

And 1:55 is probably good enough to at least walk on at any D1 school. I think that sounds fair.

You can walk on with a 4:35 mile at plenty of D1 schools for that matter. I was just responding to your original statement. If we're talking about scholarships to Stanford and the only one of those times you could produce was the 1:55 you're not going to be in theconversation. The other times are stronger if you had any one of those.

Straight As, 1400+ SAT, and:a combination of two:

:48

1:51

4:10

8:50

14:48

.....while actually winning meets and Championships, not just running fast PRs but coming in 9th.