how bad is 36 secs for the 200?

I've run in the 16s for 5k and mid 2:40s for marathon, and I don't think I've ever run faster than 34ish for 200.

Unless you're over 70 no-one's going to be asking you to join their sprint team any time soon, but for a marathon runner I think that's better than many here are making out.

If you were just timing yourself, with no blocks and no competition, then you could probably do a lot better than that with the right conditions.

My guess is that your pace wouldn't drop off too much if you carried on to the mile. If you could continue at 45s per 200m say, that's not far off 6mins for a mile. Again, there wouldn't be any medals heading your direction, but it's far from awful for an older runner.

okeydokieslowpokie wrote:

sdfsdddddddd wrote:

I'm a marathon guy but thought I would run a 200 as fast as I can today. Came up with 36 seconds. Is that awful? What kind of mile should I be able to run with that time?

I still rememebr a guy I ran with. Or at least at the same track.

He was a 2:10 marathon runner. Bro in law at the time of Deeks.

He had a PB for the 400 at 60 seconds and ran a 2 minute 800.

36 seconds is really slow. Hey, perhaps you're handsome? But I doubt it. Likely your a skinny withered distance guy without a life.

Take up chess.

My a skinny withered distance guy is what?

Marathon guy,

If you do 20 200's at 36, that's adequate for a marathoner.

4:29miler wrote:

It's about my 5k pace so yeah pretty awful

How do you rate your own performance

Jamin Luv2run wrote:

I've run in the 16s for 5k and mid 2:40s for marathon, and I don't think I've ever run faster than 34ish for 200.

How can you run 16s for k and only run a 34 sec 200 meters? Not credible.

sdfsdddddddd wrote:

I'm a marathon guy but thought I would run a 200 as fast as I can today. Came up with 36 seconds. Is that awful? What kind of mile should I be able to run with that time?

I'm pretty sure you need to adjust your starting blocks.

One of the oldest letsrunners wrote:

sdfsdddddddd wrote:

I'm a marathon guy but thought I would run a 200 as fast as I can today. Came up with 36 seconds. Is that awful? What kind of mile should I be able to run with that time?

pretty awful, ran 4x200 in 28.5 and I'm an old man.

wow, 1x200 in 7.125. That's not too bad, man!

was it your first one you ran 36 or had you done a few before?I'm 34 and sometime after doing a workout I'll only be able to do like 34-35 on the first, but then do some at 28-30. This is after a long tempo or a bunch of intervals. take a while to get those muscle fibers recruited or something.(i was a 48.6 second 400m runner in college and ran about 23 in the 200m)

sdfsdddddddd wrote:

I'm a marathon guy but thought I would run a 200 as fast as I can today. Came up with 36 seconds. Is that awful? What kind of mile should I be able to run with that time?

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