Good 7th grade mile time

Flagpole wrote:

Pointing Out the Obvious wrote:

Listing kids who were good runners in 7th grade who turned out to be slow or non runners later on is irrelevant.

The OP asked a question. You failed to answer it.

If a lady with an alligator about to bite her leg asks me if her new haircut looks good, I will inform her of the alligator.

Followed up by yet another irrelevant post.

Well done.

I'm currently a seventh grader and my track is small so we have to run 6 1/2 laps and my time was 6:39 was have something called the gold mile and average for girls 7:00 and boys 6:40 I'm a boy and also you get a t shirt for it and a bottle of cold Gatorade

You guys having junior high kiddos running that fast...with the world record for a 12 year old being a 4:43 I believe. Y’all must have something in the water!

xtz wrote:

Flagpole wrote:

Did he have fun? Does he seem like he's into it? Those are far more important criteria at this point than his time.

I could list for you all day kids who were winning mile races in 7th and 8th grade who didn't amount to much in high school, and I could list for you all day kids who were mediocre or even slow in middle school who turned into HS super stars...both boys and girls for both.

So the kids who are fast in 7th and 8th grade are not as important as those who are fast in HS and should not take any pride in their success merely because it happened at age X instead of age Y. Do I have this right?

This guy is bringing up the right point. Why do people all project their opinions on when a kids success or more or less valuable? Kids should enjoy success whenever they have it. You can't predict how someone will turn out based on their times as a youth. There are good youth runners who don't get better and slow youth runners that improve a bunch. There are a million factors and combinations of circumstances that impact their trajectory. After being around youth track for a long time I've come to the conclusion that people love to be haters and do anything they can to tear down someone having more success than their own kids.

Bottom line is if it is the kid driving their goals and performances, celebrate success whenever they have it. If it's the parents driving their goals, it likely won't scale.

[quote]angry willy wrote:

Making projections off of his times in middle school would have been as worthless as the projections that the OP is making. [quote]

Unless that kid has parents like mine. My dad was multi all American, my mother multi all American. Myself as a seventh grader wasn’t all that fast. But everyone projected that Iwould be in hs. They were right.

So... are his mother and father 4:10 milers or equivalent in hs? If so, a reasonable projection. But if mom and dad are obese.... I’d project his current pr may be his lifetime or.

Hey dont be like that, 5:3 is a great mile time for a 7th grader and if you manage to go sub 4 then you will end up being the fastest mile runner on Earth in the future. Don't Listen to Idiots such as this person.

Puglover wrote:

What is a good mile time for a 7th grade boy?

Our school record at a school that had produced numerous state champions over the years was 4:59. This was in the Mountain West where every meet is at 4000ft or higher though.

Really, anything under 5:30 is quite good for a 7th grade boy. There's lots of room to grow and develop for kids that age, and it's not important to get too concerned at that age because a boy who runs 4:55 in 7th grade MIGHT only end up running 4:40 in high school, whereas another boy who runs 5:40 in 7th grade MIGHT end up running 4:25 in high school. I've seen both.

This thread is ridiculous, people going on about 5:15 or lower timings, that is almost word class at that age, probably the equivalent of a fully grown male runner ripping off a sub 4. You all want your heads feeling seriously, most of you have no idea how fast some of these times are for a small child.

Anything under 7:00 is quite good for a 7th grader, the competitive ones will flock around 6:00 to 6:20. The very rare outlier will be sub 5:30 but it is very possible that a kid who does this will have started puberty earlier than the rest of his peers.

5:15 or lower isn't world class as a middle schooler.. definitely fast, but not world class. There were at least 5 guys in my MS league who have ran 5:15 or faster. The best time was 5:04 by an 8th grader, best time from a 7th grader was 5:05 (probably will run 4:15 at the slowest since he's not an early grower either- I've seen him, he's around 5'0 and 80 pounds). At our fastest meet, almost half of the guys broke 5:30 (this meet was exceptional though, at all of our other meets the average was no faster than 5:45, usually around the 5:50-6:00 range, slowest average was 6:05-6:10 I think). I think there were 30 guys who ran the mile, two heats (this was during our fastest meet, I think the mean was smth like 5:35-5:40), in heat two, the winner ran 5:04, 2nd was 5:05, then 5:15, 5:17, 18, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 25, 27, 30. In the first heat, the winner ran 5:35 (the heats were not organized properly obviously, they just took everyone who they thought would run 5:35 or better and put them in the second heat, but everyone ran faster than their seeded times except for one guy in that heat), the average was about 5:50 in the first heat (I was on the slower end running 5:53, I had a PR of 5:48 at the time)

id smoke all you 7th graders and including you