My current 5k is 20:10; in ten years I will be 62 and my 5k will be .....well I like to guess 24:45 but odds are some injury will take me out of racing and I might be able to do some slow rec running at 29:00.
If you look at the number of racers from the early 50's to early 60's you'll see that numbers are drastically reduced. Chances are that I will be one of them.
3 mile is arund 15:55 as a soph now, first time i've been uninjured, hope to eventually be around 13:50.
Does "dead" count as a time?
Currently injured for last 3 years. Projected time at age 53 is 16:54.
If I'm still running then probably 14:30-15:00. But unless I get faster than this I doubt I'll still be training seriously in 10 years.
noob,
so how old are you now and you will give up running if you can't improve......your probable time without serious training) will be....?
I've been injured for a few years myself, so all I hope for in the next 10 years is to still be running. It would be nice to break my PR (18:52) since I was never satisfied with that time (indoor track, freshman year), but I know I'm a long way off from 5k shape. Sometimes I forget that I am young and hopefully still have a small chance though. In 10 years I'll only be 31. It's kind of scary thinking about the future, and not just with running concerns. Will I even still be running? Will I be alive? Pessimistic I know. Will I be married and have kids? Someone slap me if I do (j/k). Will letsrun still be around and look the same? Will wejo ever coach the LetsRun.com post-collegiate team and sell us T-shirts? Will Teg ever run a 10k?