She beat me at Falmouth Sunday within a minute. My mile PR is 4:59. If we both did mile specific training who would win?
She beat me at Falmouth Sunday within a minute. My mile PR is 4:59. If we both did mile specific training who would win?
She couldn't touch you.
Don't neglect shorter interval training - 100,200 repeats. Joan never had speed.
She would. Joan ran the 7th mile of the 1984 Olympics Marathon in 4:58 to break away from the field.
I am talking about right now, do you think she still has 4:58 speed?
I saw her run 31 for 5 miles at the Montana Women's run last year (got to be one of her shortest races in recent years). That's a ways from showing she can still run sub 5 for a mile. That 5 mile race had no one near her however. I think the next closest runner was at least 3 minutes back, so perhaps that was a tempo effort for her.
FRR wrote:
I am talking about right now, do you think she still has 4:58 speed?
No. And not likely to in the future even if motivated. But in 2009 she ran a Master’s Women’s Mile in the USATF meet (pretty sure it was that year and place) and surprised me. I think she was very close to breaking 5.
My mistake. It was 1500 meters not a mile.
So a definite “no" to your question.