How old were you when you ran the best times in your life (regardless of distance)?
Did you get better after 25/30/35/whatever?
15-5K 17'45" 10K-39'00
25-5K 16'20" 10K-40'00
26-5K 15'50" 10K-38'30
9 years of not a lot of running
35-5K 16'50" 10K-38'00
And, the longer distances seem easier now.
Your 5k times seem alot faster than your 10k times.
39 seconds
Run32, you are correct.
It's because I never ran much distance. Those times before 35 y/o were based off 15-20 mile/week. The 10K just fell off the page bacause of my lack of aerobic conditioning.
Now, it is getting better, but the mileage is still only at 40-50.
My fastest times came from age 20-25.
best 800 (track): age 22
best mile/1500: age 22
best 3000 (track): age 32
best 5000(track): age 22
best 5K (road): age 27
best 10000 (track): age 22
best 10K (road): age 23
best 15K : age 31
best 10 miler: age 24
best half-marathon: age 23
best 25K: age 29
best marathon: age 33
5k - 23 - 14:28.6
10k - 21 - 30:12.3
3k - 26 - 8:28
mile - 18 - 4:20.3
800m - 18 - 2:00
half-marathon - 29 - 1:04:49
marathon - 32 - 2:15:32
now, the question is that are you getting better at distance as you get older? or is it just that you are running it more often. i can see people PRing at the 800 at like 21 or 22 because if they went to college, that might be the last time they're running it, and would they be able to have run a better marathon at a younger age.
take bekele for example, its probable he'll go up to a marathon when he gets older (following his idol) and probability is that he'll get the marathon world record (dont bash, but think about it, it is very probable) would he run faster now in the marathon, or should he really wait and take out the short distances now before he has a few more thousand miles under his belt (we may never know, just a question to really think about)