The average healthy young male should be able to run sub 14 5000.

The average LRC track running kid has no idea what "average" means.

The average healthy young male might be able to walk 5000 meters without getting blisters.

agree with the OP, but would like to further clarify

the avg healthy young male should not just be able to run faster than the womens 5000 WR, they should be able to best the womens WR at every distance

50th best NCAA Division I runner ran 13:43 last year. I guarantee that there are far more Division I football players who can bench 400+ pounds than there are guys who can run sub-14:00.

I guess the average healthy male can easily bench over 400 pounds.

One of the laziest troll jobs in a long time.

Beating the women’s WR at more than one Olympic distance

is the minimum criterion for any healthy male.

The average troll here is very lazy.

It’s difficult and practically nobody cares to do it. They are right because it’s also useless.

Hundreds of thousands of American high school kids run the 1500, 1600, or mile every year. Only about 20% of these kids who are trying can even break 5min mile equivalent. To run a sub 14 5k requires about 4:15 ability or better. That is an uncrossable chasm for 80% of HS runners..

Go research how many of the NCAA D1 XC qualifiers have run sub 14. It is probably less than half of the field. Those are the best college runners in the country.

A good number for any healthy male is probably 25min.

No way 13:59 is possible off a 4:15 mile.

There is a take somewhere in here that I'd like to agree with, but there is not enough nuance in the OP to make me think he meant it.

I think an average, healthy, young male, could run sub-14 if they were fully dedicated from age 14-24. Like Jakob level dedicated, with Jakob level support. Of course, that's not really an average person anymore. I do like to think that everyone outside of the highest echelon could run a lot faster than they think they could.

Here we go again.

In reality, the average healthy young male would not go further than 200 meters at sub-14 5000m pace.

The average young male does not want to be a 120 pound stick in order to be sub elite in a sport he doesn't care about.

2:09:56!

That's the same as sub-26 8K, yes?

Paavo Nurmi

To run 14:00, it almost always requires someone that ran 9:00 in HS. A 9:00 HRer,is not your average, healthy, young male.

should be able to run sub 60 400m

A runner with 60 second 400m speed, will top out at about 15:00. The minimum required for 14:00, is about 56.

Sir, it takes far less than that. I should never fill my JV roster if I had to expect youngsters to run 70 or 80 miles per week! Our modest time standard of sub 14 is achieved by fully 2/3 of all those trying out. The remaining 1/3 are provided with a link to "park-run" or some shuch endeavor where they time you and don't keep any kind of records that would shame you shuch as a 16 min 5k..