Stember runs 19:30

For all you guys who think that 19h30 is slow I will add my two cents worth. As a 16 year old I ran 3:50 for 1500m and stopped running when I was around 18 after a minor car accident. I finished school and got a desk job. Over the next 15 years I ran on and off getting myself back into reasonable shape at times but my baseline ability slowly decreased. I was able to run 17:30 into my early 20,s off very little training and this slowly got worse. I am now in my late 30s and my baseline is around 23 minutes for 5km.

My point is even a former Olympian will struggle when he does no running and as talented as he is a19h30 5km with no preparation for a guy in his 30s and over weight is still pretty good when compared to your average guy who will probably run around 26 to 30 minutes

TTC you clearly have never met Michael yet you have such a hard-on for him. This thread isn't about you but you're defending each post like it's a personal attack on you.

For those of us that know him, this is classic Michael. He's so full of himself and usually unjustly so.

Sure he's an olympian, and that was a great accomplishment, but most everything else he bragged about in that interview was BS. Running fans have a right to rip him for running over 19 minutes just like basketball fans would rip Larry Bird if he stepped on a bball court and missed 15 layups.

I can't help but think that Stember had a bad day.

Since this was a one-off race, I don't know if it's fair to judge...maybe he had a cold or some other ailment, or maybe he had to pull late hours at work for a week to meet a deadline.

Even I can run a 19:30, and I'm way older than Stember, don't train for the 5k, and am probably way higher BMI than him.

To insideinfo: the "average (American) guy" will not even be able to run 5k at all. I just flew across the country and saw a cross-section of the American public...oh god...

I'm blown away that Stember couldn't go faster than 19:30

We'll see what happens next time, if there is a next time...

Sprintgeezer wrote:

To insideinfo: the "average (American) guy" will not even be able to run 5k at all. I just flew across the country and saw a cross-section of the American public...oh god...

I've often wondered what percentage of Americans between the ages of, say, 30 and 55 could run a single 10:00 mile if their lives depended on it. Obviously any guess is no more than just that, but I figure it's well below half and closer to one-fourth. Even that may be optimistic. Kind of puts the glut of 30:00 finishers in 5K road races in a pretty respectable light.

I read somewhere the average mile time for adult male in this country is 10:30. For women that time isw 11:00.

Any high school varsity athlete should be able to run 7:10 for the mile.

Joe9090 wrote:

I read somewhere the average mile time for adult male in this country is 10:30. For women that time isw 11:00.

Any high school varsity athlete should be able to run 7:10 for the mile.

This seems to accord well with the previous post. I see "fit" people running around 6 mph on treadmills frequently--not athletes, but not sedentary either... 10:30 seems reasonable at first glance, but I still have to wonder...on average? Joe9090, how old is that stat?

I still think that Stember had a bad day, or that everybody on this board claiming to run sub-15 is a liar...I'll go with the bad day theory.

CCT wrote:

TTC you clearly have never met Michael yet you have such a hard-on for him. This thread isn't about you but you're defending each post like it's a personal attack on you.

For those of us that know him, this is classic Michael. He's so full of himself and usually unjustly so.

Sure he's an olympian, and that was a great accomplishment, but most everything else he bragged about in that interview was BS. Running fans have a right to rip him for running over 19 minutes just like basketball fans would rip Larry Bird if he stepped on a bball court and missed 15 layups.

Based on this Stember stuff, it seems that TTC is a weird guy. I can't imagine why he is so promotional and protective of some random runner.