What would you consider your lifetime best performance at any distance, where did it take place (track, road, trails, or, unlikely, treadmill) and at what age did you do it?
Add your comments about the race as well, if you wish.
What would you consider your lifetime best performance at any distance, where did it take place (track, road, trails, or, unlikely, treadmill) and at what age did you do it?
Add your comments about the race as well, if you wish.
25 yrs 10 mos (1996), 1500m, track
probably the one im most proud of was a 10k on the road when i was 17.
wasnt that fast 34: something, but it was my first real race that i had trained for, as i didnt run cross or track in highschool.
hilly 10-miler that was 12 minutes off my PR but came after long injury layoff at age 39
Age 33, 10k and 15k.
DP
I was pretty happy to have run a 3:55 1500, 1:54 800 and a :50 400 split all in the same meet freshman year of college. It was gorgeous out and it was in southern illinois area. In high school I ran a 1:56 3200 relay split, a 1:54 800 time, a 4:26 mile time, and a :51.8 relay split all in the same conference meet. Sometimes it just happens. But we all know about those darn off days.
1979 high senior
400 51
800 2:02
mile 4:29
2 mile 9:48
5k XC 15:01
10k 33:04
21 mile Race...2:04
I was bummed out because no college offer me a chance to run for them. So I join the Army....ran the military 2 mile combat run with gear in 10 FLAT!....and lapped everyone at least once.
now a master runner
best 5k 19:00 in 2004
how did you run a 5k at a pace faster than your best 2 mile pace?
I know! it is my best race ever!
to answer your question I will do my best...here goes.
1. had no coach
2. In 1979....my idea of training was 60 miles a week and ordering sports drinks from the back pages of runners world.
3. I love baskerball(and played)and was hurt alot.
4. Class A...schools smaller than 750...my school had 185
5. Sometimes my best runs where in practice because I and others had no idea what we where doing!
6. Sometimes before a XC race we would race in practice two or three times a day before the race. It was nuts.
7. I remember once during my soph year I won 11 races in a roll. There was not much competition for me. When there was I wasnt sure how to prepare.
8. I ate more junk food than than truck drivers.
9. Our school had NO football field or running track.
10. Funny thing is....I loved XC in high school and alway thought of myself as 2 miler in track. Something funny happen to me my senior year. Up till then I was 4:55 miler and then all of sudden my times just went down. From 4:55 to 4:44, 4:36, and 4:29.
11. When I ran the 15:01(5K)...I actually did that twice on the same course! I remember the first time like it was yesterday because the best runner in the state was in it. It came down to the wire. One second difference between us (he won). Funny thing is, he finished 1st in state and I finished 16th.
12. Bottom line is: there was so many inconsistency. I was all over the place. I did have some nature talent. There was no one to show me how to run, train, and peak.
PS there are alot small school kids that are over look ever year in this country. There times may not be great but if they ran for the bigger schools with all that stuff like indoor tracks, great coaches, weight rooms, training plans, and fittnes experts many would show excellent improvement. Sometimes I say, " I wish I new that then!"
10 yrs old.
50 meters.
Surface:slippery slide.
Time:4.2secs.
Seriously:Running sub 22min 5k splits in a hlf marry @ 51.
Yes I am slow.
4:19.6/1500m at 12years 11months old
2:05.81/800m at 13years 6days old
Racer1 wrote:
What would you consider your lifetime best performance at any distance, where did it take place (track, road, trails, or, unlikely, treadmill) and at what age did you do it?
Add your comments about the race as well, if you wish.
1975, Indoor track (tartan) 3 mile in 13:32 at age 23 (graduate student continuing to train with the team when eligibility ran out). Perfectly even pace throughout (4:30, 9:01,) and I was able to be dragged along by the 4 runners who finished ahead of me! Got my name into T&F News US indoor rankings (briefly)after that one. God, was it really 30 years ago?
Michael
4:19.6/1500m at 12years 11months old
2:05.81/800m at 13years 6days old
b.s.
4:19.6/1500m at 12years 11months old
2:05.81/800m at 13years 6days old
b.s.
you want proof?
i was born on 30th of April '87 which i cant prove but heres a link to the results of when i ran them, the sites show that i did them in the u/13s:
4:19.6/1500m on April 16 2000- scroll down to the 1500m records
http://www.littleathletics.com.au/site_content/pdf/100001527.pdf
2:05.81/800m on May 6 2000 - scrooll down to 13yrs 800m final
Racer1 wrote:
What would you consider your lifetime best performance at any distance, where did it take place (track, road, trails, or, unlikely, treadmill) and at what age did you do it?
Add your comments about the race as well, if you wish.
Why don't you tell us yours Racer1?
MC, are you by any chance the "Cleary" (or related to him), who was a 800m runner at Occidental college in the 70's? At a season openning Ac meet on dirt I saw a"malcom Cleary" run 1320yd in 3:00, 60-60-60, to win by 12 sec.
runnerhigh3333 wrote:
b.s.
Ha!
Look at this little idiot calling "B.s" on someone else's times?
How about yours? I bet you don't run 4:37 for the mile.
OXYRUNR wrote:
MC, are you by any chance the "Cleary" (or related to him), who was a 800m runner at Occidental college in the 70's? At a season openning Ac meet on dirt I saw a"malcom Cleary" run 1320yd in 3:00, 60-60-60, to win by 12 sec.
OXYRUNR:
I wish I was as fast as the Malcolm Cleary you described! To my knowledge we are not related. I ran for Indiana University (Bloomington)from 1972-75. Unfortunately, I did not possess the speed to run the 800m in college. As a grad. student, I once ran the 1500m at Illinois and got smoked by Wolhuter, Popejoy, Durkin, and 3 others. After coming thru 1200m in 3:02+, those guys just blasted away. I was only able to manage a 63 last quarter and finished 7nth in 3:47 and change. I could have used a half-miler's speed that day because it felt like I was sprinting the entire distance.
Michael