Background
30 years ago:
1500M runner at a D3 school
3:57 PR
Height 6'
Weight 145
Today
Age 52
Weight 175
I run once a week at a 9 minute pace for 20 mins
I lift weights at the local YMCA 2-3 times a week.
The YMCA was very crowded so I decided to skip lifting and go to the Middle School track. I did an easy warm up and timed myself for a 400M. I was wearing longer basketball type shorts and Nike Pegasus training shoes.
Guess my time!
And go............................
59.2
78????
Thin and alone wrote:
The YMCA was very crowded so.
...you found a nice young man and forgot all about lifting
Then created this thread and left it open on your computer so your wife sees it and doesn't wonder where you were for the last 3 hours
68.9
I'm sure youre faster than me [zero running talent, am having trouble sneaking the last 5 seconds to get under 6:00 in a mile...], and I can run 1:12 400m (sad I know)
I'm guessing under 1:10
80 seconds.
Probably went out the first 100 in 17 seconds, then came through 200 in 35. Then hit the wall in the 3rd 100 and finished the 400 in 80 seconds.
98 seconds
63s
55.6 seconds
Anyone saying under 65 has lost touch with reality. He's 52 and weighs 30 lbs more than his peak and he doesn't run much! I say 69 if all the training details are accurate.
I have trouble running 1 lap in trainers at 1500 pace when going 30 days without running, so 30 years with no real running, 64 or faster would be very surprising.
I would guess 74.9
You hit the first 200m in 35 seconds.
At 250m you try to pick up the pace. You are distracted by a twinge in your right hamstring followed by the searing ball of pain growing in your left calf.
You limp across the finish line in 73.45 seconds as you glance towards the high school bleachers for affirmation from your sullen teenage son (who you made come along with you after your wife declined with a look of "are you nuts?")
Alas, your son is absorbed on his iPhone and misses your bigly achievement.
Damn you Steve Jobs.
breaking: reality on letsrun wrote:
Alas, your son is absorbed on his iPhone and misses your bigly achievement.
9+/10
75.9
79
1:09
82?
Thin and alone wrote:
Background
30 years ago:
1500M runner at a D3 school
3:57 PR
Height 6'
Weight 145
Today
Age 52
Weight 175
I run once a week at a 9 minute pace for 20 mins
I lift weights at the local YMCA 2-3 times a week.
The YMCA was very crowded so I decided to skip lifting and go to the Middle School track. I did an easy warm up and timed myself for a 400M. I was wearing longer basketball type shorts and Nike Pegasus training shoes.
Guess my time!
And go............................
One think I wished I knew before predicting: Have you been keeping up this running/lifting schedule for 20-30 years, or is it a new thing after possibly 2 decades+ of complete inactivity? That would change my answer considerably.
If the lifting /20 min weekly run is a relatively new thing after doing nothing for decades, the age and weight differences alone make me think you probably would be lucky to break 80 seconds, even with your background. Thirty years is a long time ago.
However if you've been following your current "training" more or less for 20+ years up to now and stayed some semblance of 'fit' all this time (gym, weekly short jogs) , I predict a 73 second quarter.
Did you look relaxed?