What is the median 5K PR for a Division I runner?

I'd say 14:15-18....the top guys of course are well under 14 minutes...

No, median 5K PR for all division 1 runners. Surely 14:15 is way too fast.

14:15?....I hope you're joking, the top guys may be under 14 minutes but how many exactly are under 14 minutes, maybe 25-30 Division I runners. Believe me, there are many slow DI schools out there I'd say the MEDIAN is somewhere close to 15 minutes.

We're talking all D1 programs, which feature plenty of smaller programs. Maybe 14:50 - 14:55. I wouldn't go any faster, but maybe even a little slower.

uhhh, no. the median would be well over 15, i'd say 15:20ish. think of how many scrubs there are on each team.

I would say probably around 16:30-45 for ALL D1 runners. Assuming you're just talking about distance runners.

If we are talking male distance runners, I would say around 15:50.

since the median is the 1 time, exactly in the middle of all 5ks run by all D1 runners, it must be pretty slow

I think somewhere around 15.15-15.30; looking at performance lists, even the worst conferences average around 15 high.

Performance lists only list the top times, no? I don't see how those can help you find the median.

I'd go with 15:20ish. I ran for a small DI school and had a PR of 15:40. There were more guys faster than me than were slower but I could still beat a lot of other DI runners. Also figure that at the larger schools with faster teams usually don't let their slower guys race mush.

So we are all on the same page:

Median- is the middle point of all data. For eaxample, if there are 1,001 data points, the data point at 500 will be the median. You may have 500 14:00 guys, 1 16:00 guy and 500 20 minute guys, the median is 16:00

Mean- Is the average of all data points. Using the same data, the average(mean) is 17:00.

They can be vastly different.

Clarity wrote:

So we are all on the same page:

Median- is the middle point of all data. For eaxample, if there are 1,001 data points, the data point at 500 will be the median. You may have 500 14:00 guys, 1 16:00 guy and 500 20 minute guys, the median is 16:00

Mean- Is the average of all data points. Using the same data, the average(mean) is 17:00.

They can be vastly different.

If there are 1001 data points, data point 501 is the median.

Both actually, Since you don't actually have a data point at 500.5 which would be the actual median. Although it's not technically correct, both of the stat classes that I have taken would have you estimate by taking the mean of the 500 and 501.

Harry Kooter wrote:

Both actually, Since you don't actually have a data point at 500.5 which would be the actual median. Although it's not technically correct, both of the stat classes that I have taken would have you estimate by taking the mean of the 500 and 501.

Actually its 501. At point 501 there are 500 entries to the left (1-500) and 500 to the right (502-1001).

That would be wrong, Harry Kooter.

You take the average of the middle two data points if there are an even number of observations. If there were 1000 observations you would take observations 500 and 501 and average them.

In this instance, case 501 has 500 observations above it, and 500 below it making it the median.

My team would have to have been a near-median team, as we were in the middle of a middling conference. The median PR of the guys who ran the 5k with any regularity (at least once a season) was probably between 15:30 and 16:00. We ranged from about 14:40 down to...me.

Don't know if this helps, but it's at least a start.

15:23.4

This discludes all walk-ons, though.

I would say 15:35 is the average. 14:15, that's funny!