What time's do you consider to be elite?

The time that sets a world record and/or wins. Everything else is hobby jogging.

Elite is Olympic A standard. Olympic B standard is sub-elite.

Faster than this:

13:30

28:00

1:02

2:12

That leaves Verran off the list. I thought he said that he was elite?

easy weeks wrote:

Faster than this:

13:30

28:00

1:02

2:12

Mile- sub 3:47

5000 12:50

10000 sub 26:40

Marathon sub 2:06

Runner of Runners of... wrote:That leaves Verran off the list. I thought he said that he was elite?

Sure, lots of runners who are considered elite wouldn't make my 'cut', but I do believe that if you can't hit those times (at least, yet) you are sub-elite, especially on the world stage - and not much more in the grand scheme of things.

Ghost of Jasari wrote:

Mile- sub 3:47

5000 12:50

10000 sub 26:40

Marathon sub 2:06

This is not simply elite, its the times of someone who could be a genuine world-beater.

!@#$% wrote:

The time that sets a world record and/or wins. Everything else is hobby jogging.

Saying a "time that sets a world record and wins" is redundant. Your use of "and/or" was excessively superfluent. Do not waste our time like that again. You have been formally warned.

Zero point zero. Anything slower is too unambitious.

Agree with Olympic A standard.

high school: Times are indicative of CA state champs qualifying marks

1:53

4:15

9:10

college: NCAA Qualifying

1:50

4:03 mile

13:50

29:30

pro/ post college: US Champs qualifying

1:46

3:55 mile

13:20

28:00

1:05 HM

2:15 Mar

I would define an elite distance runner as being in the top 10% of your given field/ group.

YEAH BUDDY wrote:

!@#$% wrote:

The time that sets a world record and/or wins. Everything else is hobby jogging.

Saying a "time that sets a world record and wins" is redundant. Your use of "and/or" was excessively superfluent. Do not waste our time like that again. You have been formally warned.

Fun fact: In both the long jump and triple jump it is possible to set a WR and lose to someone who did not set a WR.

used to be good wrote:

I would define an elite distance runner as being in the top 10% of your given field/ group.

According to AthLinks, I am in the top 10% for a lot of my times. But I only run a 15:00, 31:30, etc.

easy weeks wrote:

Ghost of Jasari wrote:

Mile- sub 3:47

5000 12:50

10000 sub 26:40

Marathon sub 2:06

This is not simply elite, its the times of someone who could be a genuine world-beater.

+1, easy weeks those are ridiculous. That just says that there's like 2 American elites lol. Correct times-

1500- sub 3:40

5K- sub 13

10K- sub 28:30

Marathon-sub 2:10

Ghost of Jasari wrote:

Mile- sub 3:47

5000 12:50

10000 sub 26:40

Marathon sub 2:06

"Elite" is not "World Class".

Elite to me would be:

Mile - sub 4

5000 - sub 13:30

10000 - sub 28

Marathon - sub 2:11

There are not many folks walking around that can run these times.

Any hobby jogger can go fast if they're only doing 5k or a marathon.

Elite runners are those that can race 50 or 100 miles.

used to be good wrote:

high school: Times are indicative of CA state champs qualifying marks

1:53

4:15

9:10

college: NCAA Qualifying

1:50

4:03 mile

13:50

29:30

pro/ post college: US Champs qualifying

1:46

3:55 mile

13:20

28:00

1:05 HM

2:15 Mar

I would define an elite distance runner as being in the top 10% of your given field/ group.

Please don't ever equate running 65 minutes in the half to 13:20 or 28:00 again. Please.

kod3200 wrote:

+1, easy weeks those are ridiculous. That just says that there's like 2 American elites lol. Correct times-

1500- sub 3:40

5K- sub 13

10K- sub 28:30

Marathon-sub 2:10

Did you mean sub 14?

easy weeks wrote:

Ghost of Jasari wrote:

Mile- sub 3:47

5000 12:50

10000 sub 26:40

Marathon sub 2:06

This is not simply elite, its the times of someone who could be a genuine world-beater.

You don't understand how letsrun is played. The more ridiculous your standards, the cooler you are. Hence the 8 million "every healthy man should be able to run a 4:30 mile" threads.