14 years old..how good am i?

Might as well give up. You'll be running somewhere between 16:30-17:30, a half mile back from the real runners. I was already at 4:21/9:17 at you're age and I was still not winning come high school.

you will be in much better shape than other freshman. however...how you do as an 8th grader/frshman has nothing to do with how good youll be as a senior

learn to troll.. please..im not an idiot who doesnt know anything...9.17 two mile as a freshman is one of the top times in the country and so is a 421..

i meant 1500/3000, its hard to find youth miles/1600/two miles/3200m.

well at this years middle school state championship in the florida heat those were the times i ran for the olympic distances..your times would have won the meet running away except for the 1500 which was won in 4.22..

666 wrote:

i meant 1500/3000, its hard to find youth miles/1600/two miles/3200m.

You are doing very well. I ran 4:25.9 at 14, 2:12 & 9:39, went on to hit 3:49/1:55/8:22. The 4:25 was a total outlier as I'd only gone 4:33 prior (but got pulled along in a race with some older guys).

I ran those years ago.

Trolling aside, there's a 50/50 chance that you either think your times are good and are gloating; in which case I'm here to say they aren't anywhere near good enough for that. Or you are legitimately worried about how good you'll be, and to that I'd say don't even think about. The more you over think stuff like that, the worse you'll be mentally as a competitive runner.

i dont want to sound like making excuses for my times not being super fast but i was doing a triple at state with the 3000/1500/4by800 and in regionals the hell quadruple of 3000/1500/800/4by800 in that order

Cooksferry King wrote:

You are doing very well. I ran 4:25.9 at 14, 2:12 & 9:39, went on to hit 3:49/1:55/8:22. The 4:25 was a total outlier as I'd only gone 4:33 prior (but got pulled along in a race with some older guys).

and no..i dont think im the second coming of matt mizereck because im just cracking top ten in my state in those things..well 4by800 we were runner up so that was good

666 wrote:

I ran those years ago.

Trolling aside, there's a 50/50 chance that you either think your times are good and are gloating; in which case I'm here to say they aren't anywhere near good enough for that. Or you are legitimately worried about how good you'll be, and to that I'd say don't even think about. The more you over think stuff like that, the worse you'll be mentally as a competitive runner.

At my high school you'd have made the varsity team. We had a very average team when I started, and ranked top ten in the state 3 years later.

Why are you asking us?

Do you have a viable alternative to running?

If you like running, run.

i love running..its what i want to be the best so i was just asking how far i am from being good

Probably not good enough to get a scholarship so work hard in school.

this is my second year of running so is my potential that evident of is everything up in the air

Cooksferry King wrote:

You are doing very well. I ran 4:25.9 at 14, 2:12 & 9:39, went on to hit 3:49/1:55/8:22. The 4:25 was a total outlier as I'd only gone 4:33 prior (but got pulled along in a race with some older guys).

Nice troll attempt, too bad you fail. 2:12 800 and you ran 9:39? Good luck with that one.

abas wrote:

you will be in much better shape than other freshman. however...how you do as an 8th grader/frshman has nothing to do with how good youll be as a senior

exactly this.

i was a middle school stand-out 50.3, 2:02, 4:31 (1600m), 9:29 (3k XC), and 13:03 (4k XC). Ran freshman cross, which didn't go well (couldn't handle not being No.1 on a team that was the Indiana State Runner up), and quit running. Didn't start running again until I was 28.

Long story short, don't be me. Put in the mileage and think long-term. it might take a few years to adjust to the 5k, and even if you aren't No. 1 in XC, the track season is a different story all-together. I really regret not sticking it out, especially since I was better at track.

ALH359 wrote:

Cooksferry King wrote:

You are doing very well. I ran 4:25.9 at 14, 2:12 & 9:39, went on to hit 3:49/1:55/8:22. The 4:25 was a total outlier as I'd only gone 4:33 prior (but got pulled along in a race with some older guys).

Nice troll attempt, too bad you fail. 2:12 800 and you ran 9:39? Good luck with that one.

The 4:25 and 9:39 are about the same IAAF points, and the equivalent 800m is about 2:09. So he ran 3 seconds slower than he "should have" for 800m as compared to his 1500m/3000m, what's your point?

You just make yourself look like an idiot.

kartelite wrote:

ALH359 wrote:

Nice troll attempt, too bad you fail. 2:12 800 and you ran 9:39? Good luck with that one.

The 4:25 and 9:39 are about the same IAAF points, and the equivalent 800m is about 2:09. So he ran 3 seconds slower than he "should have" for 800m as compared to his 1500m/3000m, what's your point?

You just make yourself look like an idiot.

I think he was thinking mile/2mile not 1500/3000

cgrunner2007 wrote:

kartelite wrote:

The 4:25 and 9:39 are about the same IAAF points, and the equivalent 800m is about 2:09. So he ran 3 seconds slower than he "should have" for 800m as compared to his 1500m/3000m, what's your point?

You just make yourself look like an idiot.

I think he was thinking mile/2mile not 1500/3000

Cause then the 3:49 makes so much sense with a 1:55 800m?? Maybe he should use a little common sense next time before having a troll-yelling hissy fit.

Who knows, why don't you set some goals like this:

try to be the best Freshman on the team

try to be the fastest on the team overall

try to break some school records

try to win counties, sections, states, footlockers

Should be pretty easy to figure each one of those out