Greg wrote:
If you had reached your potential in running, what times do you think you were capable of?
With a head wind or a tail wind?
Greg wrote:
If you had reached your potential in running, what times do you think you were capable of?
With a head wind or a tail wind?
800 - 1:58
1500m- 3:59
3000m - 8:34
10 mile - 52 min
marathon - 2:34
If I just had Dragonfly and was less serious about my academics, I would broken 16 for 5000 on track. Ran as hard as I can but didn't get enough sleep due to school work. Probably would have ran at least 15 seconds faster with Dragonfly even w/o proper rests and sleep. In hindsight, academics didn't matter as much. But then 16 for 5000 is still pretty mediocre even for div 3 so nothing really lost. Never ran the marathon but I am pretty sure I would nailed sub 2:45 even w/o more training. At my peak shape, 6 min pace fairly comfortable enough. Also I am pretty sure I am all slow twitch.
1:49-3:43-13:40
If the emergence of doped up Africans dominating the sport hadn't killed my interest as a teen, I'm sure I could have achieved :
100m 10.9
200m 22.0
400m 48.0
800m 1:55
Of course, there were probably hundreds of far more talented teenage Brits who similarly gave up.
Coevett wrote:
If the emergence of doped up Africans dominating the sport hadn't killed my interest as a teen, I'm sure I could have achieved :
100m 10.9
200m 22.0
400m 48.0
800m 1:55
Of course, there were probably hundreds of far more talented teenage Brits who similarly gave up.
Oh please. Why would Africans prevent you from running 22 or 48? Were too busy worrying about them to train?
Somewhere just under 2:30 for the marathon. 1:10-1:12 half, 32ish 10K, low 15:00 5k.
Picked up running in my mid 30s, got to 1:15, 2:43. Getting old is no joke though. It gets tougher to run fast every year.
wow, you really showed them by refusing to participate in the sport! jesus f*cking christ that is sad even for you coevett.
Is there a correlation between the cold temperatures in mooseland and certain people posting obsessive nonsense on LRC?
“You ever come across something like time travel?”
This is a tough "what if". Back in the early 90's and prior, once you finished your college eligibility, you only had a few options that provided any support at all. You usually had to go into the road race scene to make any money to fund yourself and that warps into a whole different training schedule and outlook that was not conducive to goal setting and ramping up for end-of-season track opportunities.
For myself, I would guess with the right opportunities maybe 5k of 13:20's/13:30, 10k of low 28's, marathon of 2:teens. It is what it is, though. No regrets actually...just fun to wish I could try it all again.
13:45 5k
28:40 10k
1:03 HM
2:12 Marathon
These aren't far off from my actual pr's.
I actually did. Wondering about "what if" is for insecure, delusional losers with too much time on their hands.
Geez.
Get over it.
Get you head out of your p’ass’t.
If “only’s” and “but’s” were candies and nutz then everyday would be Erntedankfest.
Potential and "ability" are chimera. Only redeemable with the kind of commitment I wasn't willing to invest---at the cost of a well-rounded life. A little bit lazy to be sure, but I prefer the life of effortless (ideally!) Work/play, survival/exultation, which is a way of saying moderation and unwillingness to go the limit in any one direction. Average guy syndrome. I maybe could have gone 10 minutes under my comfortable 2:45 mar, and halfamibute under 34:40 10k.dont think I could ever have done your projected 53 min 10mi
10 1/2 mi hour run--track--was a stretch but 53 min. would be beyond me. My biggest charge was breaking my h.s. 2 mile at age of 44. But never regretted not actually breaking 10. No regrets overall.
i would have been a multi time Olympic gold medalist and world record holder if it wasnt for my bum knee and my sh*tty coach
800 - 1:38
mile - 3:30
5k - 11:59
10k - 25:10
marathon - 1:57
Ran 1:51 800, 3:44 1500 and 4:02 mile.
If I ran 70-80 MPW instead of 50-60, partied less and ate better..I think I could have gone 3:57 or so for the mile.
Still pleased with my career though.
Greg wrote:
I ran my best times at 8k/10 miles off a few months of 50-60 mile weeks.
0 workouts, just steady runs. Hardly optimal. Also I had surgery on an ankle about 7 months
before these times. I was only 19.
If I had run into my early 20s with year round uninterrupted training, I'm sure I could have run the following at a minimum:
800 - 1:59
1500m- 4:00
3000m - 8:35
10 mile - 53 min
marathon - 2:35
and probably much, much faster
You are still in your 30s. Why don't you go out and train to see how fast you can actually run? It's not like you have anything else to do, is it?
this thread, it sounds like something Bruce Springsteen would reference in one of his melancholy songs about lives unfulfilled.
I mean, even in "Glory Days", those guys actually did it.
If I had known then( back in the- 70s) what I know today of the very best way of training I`M SURE I had run times like :
1500m : 3:40
3000m : 7: 45
5000m : 13:20
10000m : 27: 40
half : sub 61
marathon : sub 2:08
The time I did;
1500m: 3:58
3000m: 8:20
5000m : 14:20
10000m : 29:51
half : 1:06:48
marathon : 2:22:09