Race Distance You Could Eventually Hold Your HS 2-mile Pace At?

hulse wrote:

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For me it was 10k. 9:37 to 29:53

I ran 11:4x for 2 miles in HS. Ten months later, 1:17 for a half-marathon.

I think a very "general rule of thumb" is that you should be able to carry your high school two-mile pace for 10,000 meters by the end of college. If you keep running competitively, you would, theoretically, improve even more.

That's actually pretty damn incredible

Sadly just a 5K

~10:50 to 16:50

10:25 for 3200, so about 10:28-10:29 for 2 miles. I've run 1:07:30 in the 1/2, which is a faster pace, and have done 5:14 pace for the first 16 miles of a marathon twice but blew up both times.

I heard that having your 3k pace in HS become your 10k pace is good progression. That'd be just over 29:00 for me, right now I'm just hoping to be able to hit that pace for 5k (~14:30) by the end of next year.

Heck, right now I hope I could run a 3k as fast as I could in HS. No injuries or interruptions in training and I'm 2 years detached from that PR with not a ton of progress in other events either.

Never ran a race longer than 2 miles faster than my best 2 mile pace(9:55)

At 50, I could probably make it a half mile.

Some random dude wrote:

I think a very "general rule of thumb" is that you should be able to carry your high school two-mile pace for 10,000 meters by the end of college. If you keep running competitively, you would, theoretically, improve even more.

I very much disagree. I think that is a very good progression rather than a "rule of thumb". I don't think most people will improve that much and might not even be capable of improving that much.

At least for people who were highly trained in HS. It will vary greatly based on how much work you put in to get your HS PR. Did you run it on 30-40 miles a week and shoddy workouts or did you run 70+ mpw and have great training.

I would have had to run 29:30 in college and while I would like to believe that I'm genetically capable of that, nothing I've ran at any distance despite very hard and dedicated training has ever indicated that.

I dont know how broadly it works, but this worked perfectly for me. 9:20 high school, 29:0X college 10k, eventually 47:0X 10 miles.

10:12 HS 2 miler, eventually held pace for 10 miles 11 years later. Was very undertrained in HS.

HS PR in the 2 mile was 11:25

Ran 2:29:76 for a full marathon

Some random dude wrote:

I think a very "general rule of thumb" is that you should be able to carry your high school two-mile pace for 10,000 meters by the end of college. If you keep running competitively, you would, theoretically, improve even more.

Not at all a rule of thumb. How many 9:20 guys go on to run 29:00 or under 5 years later? 9:00 -> 28:00?

I use 9:20 because that's what I ran in HS. I sucked at the 10k in college but did get down to 4:32 pace for 5k, so I extended my 2 mile endurance to somewhere beyond 5k. I thought that was pretty respectable.

sandybeaver wrote:

Some random dude wrote:

I think a very "general rule of thumb" is that you should be able to carry your high school two-mile pace for 10,000 meters by the end of college. If you keep running competitively, you would, theoretically, improve even more.

Not at all a rule of thumb. How many 9:20 guys go on to run 29:00 or under 5 years later? 9:00 -> 28:00?

I use 9:20 because that's what I ran in HS. I sucked at the 10k in college but did get down to 4:32 pace for 5k, so I extended my 2 mile endurance to somewhere beyond 5k. I thought that was pretty respectable.

That's why I said "very" general. Of course there are caveats such as: Were you highly trained as a prep, how was your college training, did you manage to stay healthy in college, etc? But, as others have indicated on this thread, it is a very doable progression. Let's just say it's a good and reasonable "goal."

I just started running at the end of my senior year and did not compete on the team. At 10 miles a week of mostly easy running I ran 5:30 mile and 12:00 2 mile in time trials. Ended up beating those paces for half (1:11) and full marathon (2:30).

runner1738 wrote:

HS PR in the 2 mile was 11:25

Ran 2:29:76 for a full marathon

So 2:30:16?

9:50 HS 2 mile PR.

5 years later- 48:24 for 10 miles

9:44. 8k

People should also list what their training looked like in HS versus what it looked like when they hit their post collegiate PR

I finished high school at 10:16 for 3200, and got to 51:01 (5:06/mile) for 10 miles 10 years later.