Me
5k 17:28
10k 36:20
I wonder where I might fit in with my letsrun peers!
Me
5k 17:28
10k 36:20
I wonder where I might fit in with my letsrun peers!
14:45 (track)
31:45 (road)
Oops ... 31:27 (track ... forgot I ran that one)
SoCal Pete wrote:
14:45 (track)
31:45 (road)
Nothing like a random first response by the guy who happens to be the American Record holser :-]
SoCal Pete wrote:
14:45 (track)
31:45 (road)
edit- Nothing like a random first response by the guy who happens to be the American Record holder :-]
deleted this thread....I suck!
5K - 21:01 twice, can't go sub 20:00!
10K - 46:51 don't run many 10K's, would like to get around 45:00...
5k 17:43
10k 37:30
5K 17:58
10k 39:12
5k 17:17
10k 35:32
only one attempt at each (a 5k road race was on a short course)
5K: 16:40 road
10K: 35:20 road
both certified I believe.
OhHenry wrote:
deleted this thread....I suck!
Absolutely not! You rock!
Jesus, man, we're all 45-years-old and above! Do you know how great it is that we're all still out there running decent times, refusing that fast spiral downward into immobility that so many of our peers have chosen? Anyone over 40 who can run their age in a 10K deserves absolute kudos! If you can beat your age, all the more power to you! And if you can't beat your age, this is the place to come to get the advice and support you need to do just that! (Disclaimer: only on "masters" threads; on juvenile threads you can get busted on even if you're the best America has to offer.)
This year, my Club is taking a "B" team to Club Nationals, and I can't tell you how stoked I am that some of my neighborhood running friends are making the trip. They won't be busting out Top 10 - or Top 20 - or Top 50 times ... But they'll be there! And afterwards, we'll all talk about the same hills, the same stretches of sand, and the same oxygen-depleted push up that long final grind to the finish line!
Man, we're all doing it! And the difference between the fastest of us and the slowest of us is far less than the difference between any one of us and those who gave up on physical fitness a couple decades back!
SoCal Pete wrote:
OhHenry wrote:deleted this thread....I suck!
Absolutely not! You rock!
Jesus, man, we're all 45-years-old and above! Do you know how great it is that we're all still out there running decent times, refusing that fast spiral downward into immobility that so many of our peers have chosen? Anyone over 40 who can run their age in a 10K deserves absolute kudos! If you can beat your age, all the more power to you! And if you can't beat your age, this is the place to come to get the advice and support you need to do just that! (Disclaimer: only on "masters" threads; on juvenile threads you can get busted on even if you're the best America has to offer.)
This year, my Club is taking a "B" team to Club Nationals, and I can't tell you how stoked I am that some of my neighborhood running friends are making the trip. They won't be busting out Top 10 - or Top 20 - or Top 50 times ... But they'll be there! And afterwards, we'll all talk about the same hills, the same stretches of sand, and the same oxygen-depleted push up that long final grind to the finish line!
Man, we're all doing it! And the difference between the fastest of us and the slowest of us is far less than the difference between any one of us and those who gave up on physical fitness a couple decades back!
What a great post! Thanks for this.
Excellent post:5km 17:4810km 38:0450 Mi 8:41:xx"Rust never sleeps"cheers cp
OhHenry wrote:
Me
5k 17:28
10k 36:20
I wonder where I might fit in with my letsrun peers!
Haven't run a 5 or 10 this year, but today I did my first 8x800 session for indoor mile/800 prep, and got 2:43 avg., which means around 17:30-40 for me. I turn 50 in four weeks.
Lookin for running under my age (5:0+0 or 4:50 if the gods be crazy) *******wu-hooooo*****!
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OK, I really suck, but I spent most of this year really doing marathon-specific work, which hurt my short times (blah blah blah end of excuses):
5K - 18:41
10K - Didn't run one
Where I live the 45-49 age group is killer. Kevin Haas, Digger Carlson, Doug Keller, Bill Magdalene, Perry Bach, Paul Brown, Bobby Paxton, Kirt Goetzke, Pete Kessler are all sub-17 guys. Is Pat Billig 45 yet?
Age 46 years, 2 months
16:31 5K, twice
34:24 10K
Though I'm nost happy with my 1:15:33 13.1
didn't race any 5k's this year, just used them as workouts
19:05 best this year
only 10k i did was a brutal trail race
"we're all 45-years-old and above! Do you know how great it is that we're all still out there running decent times, refusing that fast spiral downward into immobility that so many of our peers have chosen?"
here here!!
No races this year. Had high hopes but a long-time achilles problem finally got me this spring. Tried ESWT which helped for awhile, was up to a 75 mile week about 6 weeks ago and then it got dramatically worse.
Met with my doc yesterday and have pretty much decided to have surgery in January.
Hopefully I'll be training well by this time next year and will have good answers to this question in 2008.