5k time for a 14 year old male

XC sub 16:30. Track sub 16.

In the real world, breaking 20:00 makes you a solid prospect for a varsity HS team. In a lot of places, it puts you on the varsity team. Around here, it would make you a scoring runner.

aksdjfh ioeu wrote:

XC sub 16:30. Track sub 16.

Thanks, for chiming in Haile, but I think he means here in the US.

A 14 year old is the equivalent of a high school freshman. There were 174 freshman who ran 16:30 or faster during the 2016 XC season according to athletic.net. That in my opinion makes makes a sub 16:30 freshman good but not great.Maybe we should ask the OP what their definition of "good" is? Is it making varsity, placing at state, being one of the top freshman nationally, or something else entirely?

923048djcfzl wrote:

aksdjfh ioeu wrote:

XC sub 16:30. Track sub 16.

Thanks, for chiming in Haile, but I think he means here in the US.

I was a freshman and ran 16:22 this year, and then 16:04 on a fast nationals course for our school division, and I was around the top end of freshman and pretty much all of my meets. sub 17 is good for a freshman, sub 16 is crazy, and one freshman even broke 15 this year, that is pretty much insane.

sub-17:00 shows some ability

realistically:

under 20 - not bad, some talent. Might improve a lot, but might not.

under 18:30 - pretty fast, most likely future varsity

under 17 - On varsity as a freshman, one of the higher ranked freshman in the state

under 16 - near top in state, probably pretty high up nationally

also probably 20+ is average, but someone running over 20 as a freshman could still be varsity by junior/senior year. Some might never improve very much though

There is no way a runner should hang up the spikes if they haven't broken 15 minutes. I'm still in 7th grade, and I'm currently in the 18-19 minute range. People in the 20-21 minute range have been on a high school varsity team. Also, not even the best 14 year olds have broken 15:00. So, your information is flawed.

The definition of "good" would be scoring points for a varsity team.

You must be new here...

Pretty stringent definition of "good". Taking just the top 1000 times per state, the 85th percentile (which seems a reasonable definition of "good") in a few states were:CA 17:37TX 17:18PA 18:07VA 18:23MD 19:14

aksdjfh ioeu wrote:

A 14 year old is the equivalent of a high school freshman. There were 174 freshman who ran 16:30 or faster during the 2016 XC season according to athletic.net. That in my opinion makes makes a sub 16:30 freshman good but not great.

Maybe we should ask the OP what their definition of "good" is? Is it making varsity, placing at state, being one of the top freshman nationally, or something else entirely?

923048djcfzl wrote:

Thanks, for chiming in Haile, but I think he means here in the US.

I would say if you ran 18:30 you would be pretty good.

The state that I would like is Ohio.

I’m 14 and am an 8th Grader running on my Varsity XC team. I am currently running a 20 min 5k but I should be running around 19:30 by the end of the season. I am on a not super competitive team and am 3rd out of 12ish, and I place fairly good in my conference race. I feel pretty good about this because this my first year with my HS coach and it’s a big step up from MS, so I have another 4 years to get better as a runner. I also am supposed to physically grow a lot more so I feel I could improve a lot. How good you are is based on how long you have been running, how physically mature you are, and what kind of scale you are talking about. Compared to the nation as 14 year old I’m not very good, but as a 14 year old there is a lot of HS and college ahead of me to improve.

I would consider 21 minutes very good for a freshman on a High School XC team. That would leave a lot of room for improvement. (As long as they keep running)

I'm a freshman and when I started XC this year, I ran 21:30. Currently, the fastest I've run since then has been 19:00 . Everyone on my team said I was really talented just for running 21:30 and 22 minutes was the cutoff for our varsity team so I'd say that's a pretty solid time.

Keousgames121212 wrote:

I would consider 21 minutes very good for a freshman on a High School XC team. That would leave a lot of room for improvement. (As long as they keep running)

I'm a freshman and when I started XC this year, I ran 21:30. Currently, the fastest I've run since then has been 19:00 . Everyone on my team said I was really talented just for running 21:30 and 22 minutes was the cutoff for our varsity team so I'd say that's a pretty solid time.

This post is three years old, I'm not sure why you just dug it up.

But 21 minutes is not 'very good' for a freshman unless you're talking about a freshman girl. A guy that's pretty weak, at minimum you'd want to be sub 20 to be 'decent'... If you're running 18's you're pretty good, if you're 17's you're a really good freshman, and if you're in 16's you are an exceptional freshman. And if some how you're running 15's already as a freshman that is insane and you'll probably be running national caliber meets throughout high school, not just your senior year. I was running 18's, maybe even some high 17's as a freshman but there were still some freshmen beating me and I'm not even from a power state like California.

I'm 14, and my 2-mile time is sub 11 and 4k time is 14:24 and predicted 5k time is in the mid 16 mins, I'm still in MS and on a highly competitive team. I place 1st for the school, 3rd at state (11:03 2mi time), 4th at regionals (14:24 4k time), and 19th at nationals (14:26 4k time). I've been running since I was four so I believe your statement about how long you've been running, and I believe you can get better. I also feel pumped about HS and can't wait. Good luck!