I have one month to train for a 5k and haven't ran in a year

What exactly is the bet?

dkny64 wrote:

What exactly is the bet?

$50 cash and a dinner (extra ~$70 or so)

Your use of the written word is absolutely abhorent. I hope that English is not your first language.

Save the college receipt wrote:

Your use of the written word is absolutely abhorent. I hope that English is not your first language.

Dude, it was fine. He didn't capitalize the worst word of his sentences but there were no glaring mistakes in his post. A cursory glance yields no cringe-inducing mistakes that would have Shakespeare rolling in his grave.

Also, consider the possibility that he may have been typing on his smartphone.

The only things that get my attention are when people screw up "there/their," "its/it's", and "your/you're."

But anybody can write a relatively long post and makee a mistake, whether it be typographical or gramatical in origin. Oh, look! I purposely wrote two typos on purpose...oh the humanity.

From what I gather the bet is to break 17. Might happen, probably not. Can't tell from the PRs but he looks like more speed than endurance, which a year off from running does not bode well for.

Let me rephrase my question - what do you have to do to win the bet?

dkny64 wrote:

Let me rephrase my question - what do you have to do to win the bet?

beat my friend in the race, nothing else

all of you hating on my grammatical prowess can shove it

formerly kinda fast wrote:

dkny64 wrote:

Let me rephrase my question - what do you have to do to win the bet?

beat my friend in the race, nothing else

all of you hating on my grammatical prowess can shove it

Got it - what are your friend's PRs + what kind of running has he been doing for the last 6 months or so?

How fast is your friend? It will all depend on that.

Nothing much you can do...run 3 miles regularly, run every other one hard. No real times for anything further than that to help you.

You WILL run 21:12. I'm not kidding either. If the course is accurate, you WILL run that time. Come back here and tell us the time you ran...it WILL be 21:12. Can your friend beat that?

notEnglishmaJOR wrote:

Save the college receipt wrote:

Your use of the written word is absolutely abhorent. I hope that English is not your first language.

Dude, it was fine. He didn't capitalize the worst word of his sentences but there were no glaring mistakes in his post. A cursory glance yields no cringe-inducing mistakes that would have Shakespeare rolling in his grave.

Also, consider the possibility that he may have been typing on his smartphone.

The only things that get my attention are when people screw up "there/their," "its/it's", and "your/you're."

But anybody can write a relatively long post and makee a mistake, whether it be typographical or gramatical in origin. Oh, look! I purposely wrote two typos on purpose...oh the humanity.

"haven't ran" is kind of painful to some of us. Let us review for a moment: the principle parts of the verb "to run" are run, ran, (have, has, had) run.

dkny64 wrote:

notEnglishmaJOR wrote:

Dude, it was fine. He didn't capitalize the worst word of his sentences but there were no glaring mistakes in his post. A cursory glance yields no cringe-inducing mistakes that would have Shakespeare rolling in his grave.

Also, consider the possibility that he may have been typing on his smartphone.

The only things that get my attention are when people screw up "there/their," "its/it's", and "your/you're."

But anybody can write a relatively long post and makee a mistake, whether it be typographical or gramatical in origin. Oh, look! I purposely wrote two typos on purpose...oh the humanity.

"haven't ran" is kind of painful to some of us. Let us review for a moment: the principle parts of the verb "to run" are run, ran, (have, has, had) run.

Oh shut up. I was a professional editor for 10 years. I'm not even going to take LR through what is wrong with the expression in YOUR sentence ('principle parts'?! Oh my goodness please God no), but suffice to say, shut up.

Flagpole, your prediction is intriguing in its accuracy. As one of the only LR doyen I care about, explain your precision.

pleasure wave wrote:

dkny64 wrote:

"haven't ran" is kind of painful to some of us. Let us review for a moment: the principle parts of the verb "to run" are run, ran, (have, has, had) run.

Oh shut up. I was a professional editor for 10 years. I'm not even going to take LR through what is wrong with the expression in YOUR sentence ('principle parts'?! Oh my goodness please God no), but suffice to say, shut up.

Flagpole, your prediction is intriguing in its accuracy. As one of the only LR doyen I care about, explain your precision.

I was trying to be funny, but I clearly failed. Oh well. [and my bad on "principle" as opposed to "principal" - oops!]

OP: I don't actually care about your grammar, but I do remain curious about your competition - age? PRs? running over the last 6 months?

In one month you should easily be able to get in 18:30 shape.

Do every other run at tempo and a 3-5km TT every week.

Practice what you're going to be doing.

pleasure wave wrote:

Flagpole, your prediction is intriguing in its accuracy. As one of the only LR doyen I care about, explain your precision.

Life is more fun when you go out on a limb once in a while. I see his talent level and the time he has before the race and what he's done so far, and it screams 21:12 to me, so 21:12 is it. He WILL run that time.