silly old fossil wrote:
Shoot, the furthest a collegian races is 10K...that tell you something....that the NCAA doesn't feel collegians are mature enough to race any further.
And to the person who said collegians COULD crank out a mean 1/2 marathon....the operative word is COULD.
Wrong.
NAIA has a marathon race for its collegians.
NJCAA has a half marathon national championship for college kids.
I started running half marathons at 11-12 and now I'm 17 running a sub 1:30 half and a max distance record in my area of 47 miles. I'm about 6ft so it also shows it didn't stunt my growth, but it was painful.... All good things in moderation, but it's a fine idea :)
even slower dad wrote:
9 year-olds are limited to 3K.
??! ANY kid that age can run a 5k without a problem. Not necessarily fast, but they can cover the distance. The barriers are purely mental. And I think it gets worse over time, such that by high school age a 5k seems like this big thing that only crazy person would do.
Were you the subject of the thread?
You just bumped a nearly 7 year old discussion.
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