If I drop the 30lbs, what can I run? I ran 4:20 today.
If I drop the 30lbs, what can I run? I ran 4:20 today.
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I should add that I'm being conservative. Runner's World has you dropping sixty seconds per mile, at 2 seconds per lb lost per mile.
http://justyouraveragejoggler.com/how-much-faster-will-losing-weight-make-you/
My understanding is that the 2 second per pound per mile thing came from Tom Osler decades ago and is unscientific. I believe Jack Daniels has come up with a more scientific formula which came close to the Osler ru;e of thumb.
I don't believe that someone 30 pounds overweight can run a 4:20 mile.
Troll or not, not possible. I'd say at the max 12-15 pounds over, but you sure as hell can't run a 4:20 30 lbs over race weight
it was typo: 5:20.
Well, it depends.
If you lose 30 pounds because your legs got chopped off, you will be slower.
If it's because your head got chopped off, you may have trouble running much farther.
Well if it makes any difference, I was in 4:05-4:10 shape before I gained all this lard. Been training hard since then but also gaining weight hard.
Is it unrealistic to think that there might be a sub 4 miler somewhere under one of these rolls? Or is the 1 second per lb rule inaccurate?
Fatty fatts wrote:
Is it unrealistic to think that there might be a sub 4 miler somewhere under one of these rolls? Or is the 1 second per lb rule inaccurate?
None of that will ever matter if you don't go out and actually try it.
Well it's not like I can drop 30 lbs in a day. So knowing what kind of shape I might actually be would help me organize my racing plans for the late summer (enough time to lose that weight).