would you rather two-hand dunk a hoop, run sub 15min 5k, or drive a golf ball 250yds

I have done all three. I can't dunk anymore but was decent in high school and college. I've run 14:56 for 5k at 33 years old and I've been driving a golf ball longer than 250 since I was 16 years old.

Of the three, the 5k took the most work by far so that's what I'm most proud of. The dunking and driving are the result of athleticism rather than hard work.

If I could keep my current jumping ability (dunk 1 handed), I would take the 15min. Can't run due to achilles issues right now and I'm making the assumption that running a 15min 5k would mean my achilles issues were lessened. I was always a power/speed athlete - never a great distance runner.

Also put considerable effort into running sub-15 and did not get it. It is what it is.

Dunked one-handed in high school, but am sure if I had put any, literally any, concentrated effort into improving my vertical like I did to improving my running, a two-handed dunk would have been no problem.

I spend most my limited golfing concurrently drinking.

I am actually considering taking some time to try the two-hand dunk at age 32 because at 6'3" I think this is still possible. Sub-15, nope not happening.

For dunking and driving they don't necessarily mean you're good at that sport-there's plenty of athletic, uncoordinated people who can dunk and people who are just strong that can drive the ball without much skill.

The running time is what it is-that's how good you are.

I've done all three.

Driving a golf ball 250 yards is BY FAR the most useful in life. Anyone who doesn't understand that obviously isn't in the business world (a surprise considering LR's average salary). So I'll take driving the golf ball, but I've hit it 250 before. I'd rather be able to drive 250 accurately at will with a ceiling of say 300 yards.

All good things to achieve, but I still left behind my youth with a 1:57 800 PR, wished I'd at least got to low 1:50s.

Im 6'4...ran track/xc for a d1 college that frequents NCAA's, played guard in high school for a large public high school, and have grown up at the country club (currently hold a .4 Handicap in golf)....I can do all 3.

Paul Ryan?Dathan Ritzenhein?

break it up wrote:

I ran 14:30 for 5k when I was 16 years old.

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I could one handed dunk in high school and drive a golf ball 250 yards. I didn't start running until my last year of college but neither were as difficult as my first sub 19 5k. I'm 5'11 on a good day and weighed about 170 with good sprinting ability as senior in high school so maybe I'm not a natural distance runner, but it still seems to me that the running is by far the most difficult of the three. Any heathy man can drive a golfball 250 yards with 1 summer of consistent practice.

Hobby Flogger wrote:

All good things to achieve, but I still left behind my youth with a 1:57 800 PR, wished I'd at least got to low 1:50s.

Meh.

I've done all three. I was a high jumper/miler in high school... high jumped 6'4" and played basketball in the winter

Ran 15:17 in college, and ran a 14:40 about a year after college.

Golfing... All i have is the drive, not good at anything else. Not sure what my "PR" is but I know it's about 260

Back then wrote:

Driving a golf ball 250 yards is BY FAR the most useful in life. Anyone who doesn't understand that obviously isn't in the business world (a surprise considering LR's average salary). So I'll take driving the golf ball, but I've hit it 250 before. I'd rather be able to drive 250 accurately at will with a ceiling of say 300 yards.

It's also the easiest. I don't train for golf - I used to play so I have a pretty good swing, but I am a weak distance runner - and I can drive 250 yards. It needs to say "330 yards" for this to be a decent comparison.

So you're Dathan Ritzenhein?

I don't play basketball these days, so dunking is out.

I do run, so a sub 15 minutes 5k would be a pleasant PR and I am also interested in golf, so in the future the 250 yds stuff would be something I would like to have done.

SBCC wrote:

So you're Dathan Ritzenhein?

No. Ritzhenhein ran 14:13 at that age. I watched that race. He went out in 8:54 and died the last 3 laps hard.

Not sure whats harder between the dunking and the running.

The drive is by far the easiest, that's like a solid 3-iron for plenty of decent amateur players or professionals particularly if the conditions are on the firmer side or you have a bit of altitude. The long drive guys can hit 6 or 7 iron about that far. The only people I see that can't hit it 250 are generally ones with questionable swings. A good arc, and a decent coordinated turn back and through can get just about any able bodied person a 250 yard drive. 280-300 is where we start talking, and 320+ is getting into something similarly common to a 15 min 5k.

I'm 5'7 and could in High School Dunk a ball one handed so who cares about the dunk.

I ran 14:57-:58 in route on a four mile.

So it would have to be drive a ball! But I suck at golf.

Sub 15 a 5k and here's why. Dunking and swinging a golf club are about the power in the skeletal muscle, and form. Clocking a fast 5k time is about cardiovascular power, and running economy, which means I would probably be fit enough handle the training to dunk and drive.