I am a junior in high school and 16 years old. At the end of last year I ran a 2:44 1000 and at the end of spring I ran a 2:00 800. I really want to run a 2:35 this year in indoor, but after the 1st 3 races ive been around 2:40-2:41 every race. Is 2:35 by mid-February still realistic?
Shoot for a 2:37.7, which is approximately the pace that Bekele ran for his 26:17 WR 10000.
Shoot for 2:30.
You're underperforming in the 800.
Well I guess my ultimate goal is a 1:55 800 in the spring for outdoors, that way I could talk to some college coaches and I know I won't be very heavily recruited, but I think that I could bring that down a bit more senior year and maybe get some money for college. I think a 2:35 is 1/2 to my 1:55, which is why I want to hit that. When we start lots of speed workouts to peak do you see this as doable?
I also can run 2:00 and have a 2:36PB/1000m
Alright thanks, so it definitely is doable if I work hard and have some speed by late season? What should my 800m goal be them?
Thanks so much
1000 is a hard hard race...Ha Ha even more painful than the 800m. You should probably aim for 2:35 judging by your 800 but don't just limit yourself and akways run as fast as you can.
Okay thanks
Last year this time, how fast were you? Dropping 5 secs over 6 weeks isn't unreasonable. You probably haven't done a ton of short/fast work yet and hopefully aren't peaking for races in Dec.
Cashmoney32 wrote:
I am a junior in high school and 16 years old. At the end of last year I ran a 2:44 1000 and at the end of spring I ran a 2:00 800. I really want to run a 2:35 this year in indoor, but after the 1st 3 races ive been around 2:40-2:41 every race. Is 2:35 by mid-February still realistic?
2:36/2:37 seems to be a bit more reasonable for a 2:00 800 guy.
Pay no attention to the guy who threw out the 2:30 thing...that's pretty fast.
Last year at this time I was 2:48 but that went down to 2:44 in Jan and I kind of peaked then
Cashmoney32 wrote:
I am a junior in high school and 16 years old. At the end of last year I ran a 2:44 1000 and at the end of spring I ran a 2:00 800. I really want to run a 2:35 this year in indoor, but after the 1st 3 races ive been around 2:40-2:41 every race. Is 2:35 by mid-February still realistic?
Ok guy 1/10
What does that mean?
What do your coach think about your training?
He's not A great mid distance coach, so it's pretty much milage and very little speed/track workouts
You sound fast so you can probably run a 100 meters in about 11.0 flat.
Thats equivalent to 4.9 for the 40 and slow NFL linemen run that so I'm sure you are at least as fast as them.
So lets say 11.0 for the 100 meters is good for you, maybe a little conservative. Always good to be on the safe side.
But you aren't a sprinter so you can probably carry that pace for a good ways given you are a distance runner. Probably 500 meters or so.
That would be 55.0 for the 500.
But then you haven't really gotten into serious training yet, and so once you do I'm sure your endurance and probably speed will really improve, so you can probably get to the point that you can hold that pace the whole way.
So that would put your goal time at about 1:50. Yup that sounds right.
Go for it kid!
Thanks. Nice way to break it down.
With speed and all though my times should drop a bit right? I just hate waiting lol
When I was in 1:58 shape I would run 2:30.XXX usually. I would come through in 1:59 high and hold on. But I was not a speed guy - my 200m PR at the time was 26 high.
So does this all mean faster times should be ahead? Lol