If YOU were in the NOP, how fast would you get?

Believe it or not, altitude tents, alter G's, aqua jogging, doctors, etc are all available at fitness clubs and universities all over the country

The only thing that would make a real difference is the dedication to thes port

answer the question, fanboy

how fast would you get?

Bad Wigins wrote:

answer the question, fanboy

how fast would you get?

i honestly think i could run 1:47-1:48

i was a high-46 quartermiler at a school with pretty poor coaching, faciltiies, etc. (d2) and i certainly didn't it seriously..never lifted, drank the usual college amount

c'est la vie

Yeah. A fitness club in Cupertino, Beaverton, and Manhattan has them. They are everywhere.

Le Foot wrote:

Believe it or not, altitude tents, alter G's, aqua jogging, doctors, etc are all available at fitness clubs and universities all over the country

The only thing that would make a real difference is the dedication to thes port

I suspect that I would not be able to handle the training and would physically break down. Just not the right situation for me at this stage of my running.

1:51

26:44

Probably just under 14 minutes for 5k. Although a long-term approach would be to run under 2:15 in the marathon.

My best event would probably be as water boy for this group. I'd likely get my time down below 10 seconds to fetch a cup of water.

probably 14:45-15:00. Assuming a whole year of training and no full time job so I could focus on recovery....I really don't have too much talent. I just want to run 15:30 in a road race someday.

I probably wouldn't see too much improvement right away because I'm still young, and am working on gradually increasing mileage. But if I was already at a relatively high mileage (90-100 mpw) and felt like I was doing a lot of the little things already, then access to all of the fancy equipment and focusing on it full time would probably be enough to get me down to 14:00

ryan foreman wrote:

Yeah. A fitness club in Cupertino, Beaverton, and Manhattan has them. They are everywhere.

Le Foot wrote:

Believe it or not, altitude tents, alter G's, aqua jogging, doctors, etc are all available at fitness clubs and universities all over the country

The only thing that would make a real difference is the dedication to thes port

Every division 1 college football team has WAY more technology than the NOP, and many of them have underwater treadmills.

Le Foot wrote:

ryan foreman wrote:

Yeah. A fitness club in Cupertino, Beaverton, and Manhattan has them. They are everywhere.

Every division 1 college football team has WAY more technology than the NOP, and many of them have underwater treadmills.

Yup. And those division 1 college football teams are more than happy to let some peon runner have full access to all of this equipment.

Obviously.

I was a 1500m guy primarily, 3:50, and trained hard but definitely not like a pro. 5k PR was only high 14 but never ran a fresh one.

So, in a hypothetical perfect training situation with all the support I can dream of, I would have been promptly moved to the 5k. My speed is decent but would limit improvement in the 1500 quite a bit. Training volume would increase significantly from the 60-80 in college. After several years I would say very low 14s for sure and possibly under. I could probably take a few seconds off my 1500 as well just from the extra strength.

In reality the NOP is not my style of group. I don't think I would be happy there and therefore wouldn't get a whole lot better.

I'd get slower, because my self-coaching is superior to saladbar's.

on the real real wrote:

i honestly think i could run 1:47-1:48

i was a high-46 quartermiler at a school with pretty poor coaching, faciltiies, etc. (d2) and i certainly didn't it seriously..never lifted, drank the usual college amount

How were you not already running 1:48 with 46 second speed?

27:00

13:00

3:52

3:31

1:46

Or I would become the next great American Distance runner.