Does anybody know of any world class 36 year old runners? Why does 40 have to be the starting age for Masters runners. It's not fair. Seriously, How many professional 36 year old runners do you know that are elite?
Does anybody know of any world class 36 year old runners? Why does 40 have to be the starting age for Masters runners. It's not fair. Seriously, How many professional 36 year old runners do you know that are elite?
Okay.....i'm a dumbass.....I posted the same thing twice......
pretty sure paul tergat is something over 29
Did you mean 29...or 39
The guy who won the gold medal in the marathon at the LA olympics was 37. Baldini was mid 30s when he won.
For the longer stuff, I certainly think 36 isn't too old.
Most Marathoners peak somewhere in their mid-30's.
http://www.paul-tergat.net/biography.htmmarijuologist wrote:
pretty sure paul tergat is something over 29
Few people just get to the top at that level though. It is usually just maintaining form that they have held for some time. Abel Anton is another who won a major title at 37.
If you start training for marathons at age 35 after not running for enough years so that you're basically starting over, for how many years will you make forward progress before old age sets in?
How close to your full potential would you be able to achieve compared with what you would have been capable of had you trained in your late 20s?
new guy wrote:
If you start training for marathons at age 35 after not running for enough years so that you\'re basically starting over, for how many years will you make forward progress before old age sets in?
How close to your full potential would you be able to achieve compared with what you would have been capable of had you trained in your late 20s?
Assuming that you trained for fifteen years before age 28, you will be fifty before you that fit relative to your age, because fifty year olds simply can\'t compete with twenty-five or even thirty-five year olds, barring the rare exception of the 33:00 10k masters. But 33 minutes isn\'t professional, it\'s very sub-elite. It will win a few local road races for you though.
you made the assumption that I had 15 years of quality progessive training before I quit.
i had about 2-3 years of good progression on very low mileage and only training 6 months out of the year (high school), then overtrained for 5 years with low mileage high intensity (with very little progression in my PRs) (college), then I quit. I never ran the marathon and PRed at 10k when I was 19 (under 33).
I am now training for marathons, low intensity and high volume. So I've basically never trained like this before. I'm pretty sure I will blow down the 33:00 barrier within the year.
I'm more interested to know whether I can come anywhere near what I may have potentially been able to do with better training 10 years ago.
you also made the assumption that i want to go pro. i never said anything about pro running, the original poster did. i am only interested in knowing how far off my theoretical best at age 30 i would be at age 40 under my specific circumstances. and i am talking about the marathon distance only...i know my mile time will be a lot slower...
Simon Vroemen 5th place 2005 WC steeple at age 36, 8.04,95 ER that same year, and Tergats like 38.
Mark Carroll is 36 I believe. He's still doin it.
Miruts Yifter was reportedly 42 when he won the 5k/10k double at the Moscow Olympics. But he broke into the world class level rather late, when he was already 33. There is some controversy over his age, but he is commonly
thought to have been born either in 1938 or 1944. If he was born in 1944, he still would have been 36 when he won two gold medals.