List your crazy improvements + PR's here.

Never got anywhere near 9 flat 3200m, but I was pretty steady throughout high school, going from around 2:09 in the 800 as a freshman to 2:03 as a senior. My fastest cross country 5K was 18:09; I also ran 17:07 on a course that was just under three miles n my best high school XC race. In my freshman year of college, my first (and fastest) 8K was 28:52, so pretty consistent with my HS times.

In my sophomore year of college, my fastest 8K was 26:08. I got it down a little more to 25:30 as a senior.

Apparently mileage helps.

"Anyone 10 minute 3200m to 9 flat?"

Dale Fleet (Mac's father) never broke 10:00 before his senior year. Ran 8:53 to win state. And, of course, this was the 2-mile not the weird 3200 distance.

I don't know what his mile time Junior year. I think it was 4:15 senior year. Maybe he had just been someone who rarely ran the 2-mile before that. Since his teammate, Dave Harper, won the SD CIF 3 years running, it makes sense that Fleet was likely not a killer miler. He would have run the 2-mile more often just to score points you'd think.

Freshman Year 8k 25:55

Sophmore Year 8k 24:56

Senior Year 8k 23:55

Boom.

I think those might be his 1500 pb's?

Went from approximately 50 minutes for 10k with no training to 37 in 6 months. Who cares.

I went from a 4:01 1500m PR to a 3:49 in one summer

About a month ago, I went from a 5k PR of 15:10 to 14:45 in one race.

senior year of high school 4:35

freshman year of college 3:50 1500

Sectionals: 4:36 PR in the 1600. State, 4:27. Dropped 9 seconds in the 1600 in one week after spending a whole season steadily improving from 4:42.

60m PB going into this week was 7.56, shaved a bit to 7.53 on Wednesday and then today obliterated it with a 7.39

Now my 60m time is shit instead of really shit.

Went from 8:48 for the 3000 to 8:22 in one season (over 4 races). Only improved a further 6 seconds over the next two years.

Freshman year in HS:

22:00 5k PR (started in the high 23's).

Mile PR of 5:40 something.

Senior year in HS:

4:58 Mile

11:2X 2 mile (both on track)

Sophomore in college:

5k road: low 16s

8k XC: low 27's

Half Marathon: 15:XX

Not too bad I guess, for someone with very little talent. My mind is still blown that I can hold my age 15 mile pace for 13 miles though.

Start of freshman XC season 5K: 26:33

Freshman year best XC 5K: 23:19 (ran in the 24's to 25's most races)

Senior year XC 5K: 15:50 (averaged low to mid 16's all season depending on course, weather conditions, etc.)

I hit a huge growth spurt the summer before my sophomore year that propelled me to running in the mid to low 18's for my whole sophomore year.

I had no talent whatsoever, but I worked my ass off. Graduated HS in '13. no longer run because of injury.

1600

HS Frosh 4:30

HS Soph 4:18

At the end of my senior year of high school in track I ran 9:52 for 2 miles. I trained hard and worked construction over the summer. We ran a 5k road race as our season opener in college. I hit 9:52 at 2 miles and went on to run a big PR for 5K. A couple of months later we did a 2 x 2 mile on the track and I set a PR of 9:40 for 2 miles, this was broken when I ran 9:38 for the second 2 miles.

Glory days! :-)

16:24 5000m in early August, 32:37 10km in late October. Not wild wild improvement. nor crazy crazy quick, but funny what a few months of proper training with a decent group will do.

ironside wrote:

TheJeff: Good Marathon for a 196lbs. guy. What are your (5 & 10)K PRs at 195+?

5k: 19:50

10k: 20:5x

13.1mi: 1:34:55 (this was the only one I was sub 200lbs for)

26.2: 3:23:2x (felt like I was in shape for sub 3:20, but woke up to 78ºF and fog...sad face)

Goal is to BQ (sub 3:10) before I turn 40 :-)

1st half marathon: 1:34 (in a half ironman)

2nd half marathon: 1:28:57

3rd half marathon after taking 3 years off and only training 4 months: 1:21:42

the more than seven minute drop was completely unexpected.

current PR 1:15:22

In my first marathon (2013) I ran a 2:57, my second one last year (2014) I ran 2:49 and this year (2015) I ran 2:38

Also my senior year of college I ran 26:28 for 8k, I finally PRed from that 3 years later to 26:06