wondering what times otq marathoners ran in high school to see if i eventually will be able to crack it later (hopefully) in my running career
wondering what times otq marathoners ran in high school to see if i eventually will be able to crack it later (hopefully) in my running career
4:26 (1600), 9:35 (3200), 15:42 (5K XC)
2:17 full at age of 32. Current PRs are all from age 32. 4:15 (full mile), 14:27 (track 5K), 29:43 (10K), 1:04:30 (half).
My coach was a 16:xx 3mile guy in HS (said he never broke 10 in the 3200) and ended up OTQing
I know a guy who ran
2:00 800m
4:20 1600m
9:51 3200m
14:49 3 mile
and went on to run
3:50 1500m
13:54 5000m
29:30 10k
63:50 HM
2:17 full
He ran club xc for all of college, so its a nice prgression
That 14:49 3 mile must have come from a very short XC course
You'll find a wide range of people. A lot of them were probably in the 9:10-9:30 range for 3200. Obviously people faster than 9:10 are even more likely if they choose to continue running. I doubt you'll find more than a couple who were any slower than like 9:50 for 3200, and probably highly under trained in high school.
A ton of people stop training seriously after college because there isn't any financial gain to running a 2:17 marathon and people just start focusing on their career. The list is long of sub 14:00 5k runners from the NCAA who quit running competitively within a year after their college career is over, and all of them would have been capable of sub 2:18:00.
Just double checked and yeah, it was for CIF xc, so 2.91 miles,
He ran 16:06 at Clovis which is certified I think
Ah, okay. Since it was 2.91, still worth like 15:2x for 3 miles, so the 16:06 5k makes sense.
I clicked her wondering if I'd see HS distance PRs for various folks on the Board or their friends or whatever. But what I see are mid-D PRs. I was wondering, given my HS marathon times, what ball-park time would have been realistic given that I did another sport in my 20s and 30s so never ran any in whatever years would have been my peak. I would loved to have seen others with similar HS times and what they did later, at their best.
The title is a little misleading. What the thread has become is comparing 800 PRs to marathon PRs. An interesting topic as well, to be sure, but not the same topic as marathon progression through your ages.
Idk about HS times -- guessing you can find some people who never broke 4:40/10:00. 16:30ish for 5k. Gotta be able to get down to 15:00/31:00/67:00 to have an outside shot at it.
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