What percent of Letsrun forum users can ACTUALLY break 18 minutes for a 5k?

About 1/4.

I'm pretty bad and I can break 18. It just depends on how many people here are college/hs runners or fat old people.

20% - 30%…..tops.

kmaclam wrote:

20% - 30%…..tops.

Must be more than that. Do the demographics here no longer skew toward the young and male?

gahuga wrote:

kmaclam wrote:

20% - 30%…..tops.

Must be more than that. Do the demographics here no longer skew toward the young and male?

I'm a 30 year old woman and I can do it.

Concerned Girl wrote:

gahuga wrote:

Must be more than that. Do the demographics here no longer skew toward the young and male?

I'm a 30 year old woman and I can do it.

PICTURE?

I can't anymore but I once did.

In lifetime? 85-90% of males probably

This week? Maybe 33%

I'm old and skinny and that's my goal next summer. I ran 18:06 and 23:20 4 mile 3 years ago. My fastest this year was 18:33.

ACTUAL Letsrunner wrote:

I put it at 40%.

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Probably less than 20%?

i run 14:30 and make $250k a year

Based on all the elderly men posting in the bun higher threads I'd say no more than 40%.

idk you guys. 18 minutes is REALLY slow...

I can't break 18. And I can't for the life of me figure out why I still post here

I haven't yet... I'm super close! But I'm also a girl.

I bet there are quite a few guys on here who can. I feel like it would be at least 50%

2%, tops

I am really quite old but can still break 18, hopefully for a few more years.

Definitely not. 19:00 maybe, but 18:00 is out of reach.

I'm working on the mile for a while.

I would say 20% can do it.

"Bring back the mile".

hey wrote:

I'm pretty bad and I can break 18. It just depends on how many people here are college/hs runners or fat old people.

Depends on what you mean by old. But I'd guess that 95% of the thin 50 year-olds cannot break 18. Certainly 98% of the thin 60 year-olds cannot.