One of my varsity XC mates started out the season with a 17:08 and ended it with 16:30...a 38 second drop (which still is a great improvement), which wasn't compared to the year before when he dropped from 18:30 to 17:10.
So for letsrunners here, did dropping your 5k time get a lot harder once you passed the "18min 5k" benchmark?
There's nothing physically special about the 18:00 benchmark. It's harder to go from 18 to 17 than 19 to 18. It's harder to go from 17 to 16 than 18 to 17. It's harder to go from 16 to 15 than... etc.
No rocket science, just the law of diminishing returns.
I never ran in the 16's I ran 17"s as a junior and 15's as a Senior. My daughter did have a difficult time dipping under 18 minutes and hovered around 18:10-18:20 for her entire sophomore year. Once she dipped under 18:00 she consistently ran sub 18 minutes.
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One of my varsity XC mates started out the season with a 17:08 and ended it with 16:30...a 38 second drop (which still is a great improvement), which wasn't compared to the year before when he dropped from 18:30 to 17:10.
So for letsrunners here, did dropping your 5k time get a lot harder once you passed the "18min 5k" benchmark?
If you are talented and trained with a theoretical genetic limit of 15:00, then you will drop time easily once you break 18 as a freshman in HS.
If your limit is 17:30, then of course it will be slow going.
For me on a 25mpw HS training regime I went from 19:1x (Soph) to 17:4x (Junior) to 17:0x (Senior). I didn't run year round until the summer before my Junior year. In my case, not an especially talented guy, yes, my progress slowed down in HS as I broke 18. But if I had run year round in HS and 40 or even 50,60mpw, who knows how fast I would have been.
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