What distances am I suited for?

If you like to do events where you can brag to your fellow coworkers, ultras are where it's at. Also, a marathon is not a "distance" event. lol

No matter if you're planning on specializing in the 800m or 10000m, you'll need to start by building your base. Even if you don't get any faster at 200/400, I'd say you could feasibly go:

800: 2:25

1500: 5:00

5K: 18:45

10K: 39:00

Those should be pretty modest goals if you're serious about training (at least 5 days a week).

I doubt I have ever ran faster than 12.5 seconds for 100m, but off of 1500m training I ran 24.5 and 52.7 for 200m and 400m. Long story short, it could take you a year to drop your 100m time by a second, but less than a month to have you longer sprints be more in line with your "top end" speed.

You probably should stick with being a fan and watching other than a little jog every morning. Racing is obviously not for you. RunnersWorld.com can give you advice for anything you would ever want to know about your morning jog. Thanks for visiting.

Your friendly running consultant,

Charming Charlie

your half M and M training miles. I'm not sure what 70 means? Or 350. Time frame.

I think you need to do some more training and racing before you could know. Then, whatever feels best and you have the best marks, which will probably be the same event, in is probably what you are best suited for.

That being said, as you aren't trying to make a living off it, just have a good time running everything! For a distance man, any race can be of some benefit, from the 100 meters to the marathon.

Work on building your weekly miles (you say how much you run weekly) and focus on the 5K and 10K. There are races at that distances all the time.

Forget the marathon for now. You are simply another of the unwashed millions who run it because "we are all winners"...NOT!

It's nice that you know all of your other performances but you are not a TRACK MEET!"

Raising miles and focus will make you faster.

Your 1500m time may be the best.

Play around with this running calculator and I'm sure you can figure out the answer to your own question:

http://run-down.com/statistics/calc.php

agreed. you have decent wheels but sound like you could benefit from some consistent aerobic development to build up endurance, and it will speed you up in the middle distances 400-mile as well.

sanchobaile wrote:

agreed. you have decent wheels but sound like you could benefit from some consistent aerobic development to build up endurance, and it will speed you up in the middle distances 400-mile as well.

This post makes me curious, what does someone have to run for you to think they have bad wheels?