2004 when I was 10 years old was the first 5K I remember running. The results are still posted online.
24:46 - 8:00 pace
Too bad my parents didn't care about running and I was "forced/convinced" to play soccer until I was a sophomore in high school.
2004 when I was 10 years old was the first 5K I remember running. The results are still posted online.
24:46 - 8:00 pace
Too bad my parents didn't care about running and I was "forced/convinced" to play soccer until I was a sophomore in high school.
18:10 in my first meet as a sophomore. I played football as a freshman and then ran the 400m/800m in track. I got down to 57/2:12 and decided to give XC a try. After all, I sucked at football. I ran 15-20 mpw (all-out effort every run, very stupid/risky in hindsight) over the summer to prepare.
18:10 three mile race junior year. I had run 4:53 the previous track season tho.
My first XC race was in 10th grade. After about one week of training. I ran 15:20. Of course, that we when we ran 2 miles for XC. Maybe it was 2.1 miles, on a pretty hard XC course. Top guys barely broke 10 - and by top I mean 9:00 2-milers on track. Low 11 got you on varsity. Sub 11 was considered a stud. You were placing top 15 for city (large californian city). My fastest time that year was something like 11:50.
We did not run 5K until my senior year. First one was, I believe 16:45. We only ran a couple of 5Ks. Our normal course was something like 2.9. Most invites were 3 miles. Only city meet was 5k. There was no state XC meet or footlocker back then.
Moc Tod Nurstel wrote:
Biscut wrote:As a weak, sitting-on-your-ass-all-day freshman, mine was a 23:50.
Mine was about the same, actually.
Gonna have to edit this; I started XC sophomore year. But I was no less weak and sitting-on-my-ass-all-day.