Out of all the runners who were on your track or XC teams, how many were still running 10-ish years after graduation? What about ~20 years?
I graduated college in 2013. If I had to guess, approximately 10% are still running competitively now. Around 50% are hobby joggers, and the remaining 40% are non-runners but do some other sport or active hobby. I don't know anyone who became completely sedentary.
From what I have seen here is, that most highschool and college runner are doing nothing except posting here after they turned 25 or 30.
Ultimately, the attrition rate is 100%. None of us gets out alive.
Out of all my high school and college teammates, I'm the only one who still runs. A few do crossfit type stuff, most do no exercise at all.
The fastest guy on my college team used to announce to us that he'd never run a step again after his last college race. Almost 3 decades later, I'd say he's kept his promise- he is huge now.
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Out of all the kids from my high school team a little over a decade ago, I know of maybe 2 or 3 that still run, none of them competitively. I myself am now just a hobby jogger that occasionally signs up for 5ks and 10ks for fun. Continuing to run seems to be the exception and not the rule
H. E. Pennypacker wrote:
Ultimately, the attrition rate is 100%. None of us gets out alive.
Out of all my high school and college teammates, I'm the only one who still runs. A few do crossfit type stuff, most do no exercise at all.
The fastest guy on my college team used to announce to us that he'd never run a step again after his last college race. Almost 3 decades later, I'd say he's kept his promise- he is huge now.
Huge in what way?
Define competitive. Usually by let’s run standards that means you are a pro. At ten years that is 0%. Maybe 10% still run in some shape or form.
Quaker State wrote:
Define competitive. Usually by let’s run standards that means you are a pro. At ten years that is 0%. Maybe 10% still run in some shape or form.
The willingness to show up to road or track races and the desire to run hard in those races. You don't necessarily have to be a pro.
H. E. Pennypacker wrote:
Ultimately, the attrition rate is 100%. None of us gets out alive.
Out of all my high school and college teammates, I'm the only one who still runs. A few do crossfit type stuff, most do no exercise at all.
The fastest guy on my college team used to announce to us that he'd never run a step again after his last college race. Almost 3 decades later, I'd say he's kept his promise- he is huge now.
Your own example counters this, as does the OPs.
And if you respond by saying - "ultimately, we all die, so therefore the attrition rate is 100%" - then first of all, you're a numpty, and secondly; the OP gave parameters of 10 and 20 years.
100% of people will not be dead within 10 years of graduating college. Read more carefully before posting nonsense.
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I would sooner die than become a hobby jogger. Blech!
Purely anecdotal of course, but I believe a good chunk of the 800 guys get fat after college.
I have one friend who still trains hard and is doing marathons, at a pace much faster than he could run in HS. I have another who doesn't run at all--he coaches kids. I think the rest of my team falls into the latter category.