Serious questions, if every country in the world rounded up their most talented 10 year olds and trained them to run a Marathon and face off in the olympics, how fast would the winning time would be? Do you guys think some 10 year old Kenyan could drop a 2:15?
2:37:39.35
2:15? No way.
Well yes if you mean a 25 year old who pays off some guy $100 bucks to say he's 10.
Interestingly, after i saw this I looked up age group records and was blown away by this:
14 2:40:48 Jung-Sook Lee KOR 20 Sep 71 Seoul 16 Mar 86
A little 14 year old korean girl ran a 2:40 marathon back in 1986! Makes me honestly wonder if we trained kids high mileage how many kids would drop crazy fast marathons.
Current boys 10 year old WR - 2:55
Current Girls 10 year old WR - 2:58
@#$ing NUTS.
Wr's Bro wrote:
Current boys 10 year old WR - 2:55
Current Girls 10 year old WR - 2:58
@#$ing NUTS.
I think you'd see much faster times if it were the olympics...how many 10 year olds nowadays have ever even run 5 miles before...but it it's an olympic event, you'd have exponential growth.
kids under 10 couldn't handle insanely high mileage
this question is already answered, with real-world proof
something around 2:50 for the men and 2:58 for the women
(which is incredible if you think about it, training that much at age 10 seems really wrong)
thatrunner#5 wrote:
kids under 10 couldn't handle insanely high mileage
Geb ran 10k to and from school as a child.
Worldclass Maraphoners wrote:
Serious questions, if every country in the world rounded up their most talented 10 year olds and trained them to run a Marathon and face off in the olympics, how fast would the winning time would be? Do you guys think some 10 year old Kenyan could drop a 2:15?
I first thought this was a stupid question. Now that I've read through the responses, I'm really amazed at how fast the age records are!
When I go skiing, I'm always amazed that 4 year olds can go down the hill much faster and with no fear and less falling than me. I suck at skiing so it's acceptable to me that little kids can ski circles around me. On the other hand, I thought I was a decent runner (not by LetsRun standards but decent by real world results) but now that I see the age records, it's very disheartening. And it doesn't get any better by looking ahead to older runners. Ed Whitlock has times on the list that make me hope I can be within an hour of his accomplishments when I reach those ages!
Not sure if I should thank the OP for this thread or if I should be pissed off because right now I feel like giving up running because it's hard to accept that a 14 year old has run faster than I think I'll ever be able to run.
I can't even get my 8-year-old to run a mile without him acting like he's dying!
The skiing observation strikes a chord with me. They don't even use sticks!
WDC Runner wrote:
I feel like giving up running because it's hard to accept that a 14 year old has run faster than I think I'll ever be able to run.
Obea Moore ran a sub 48 400 at age 14. No shame in never being able to run that.
thatrunner#5 wrote:
kids under 10 couldn't handle insanely high mileage
Why not?
Kids 10 and under in other sports handle insanely high training volumes, higher than even HS runners.
What a dumb post. Why are you thinking about 10 year olds anyways?
How many of y'all boys are jealous that a 10 year old girl ran a 2:58 marathon? lol 1/2 this board will never run that fast.
WDC Runner wrote:
Not sure if I should thank the OP for this thread or if I should be pissed off because right now I feel like giving up running because it's hard to accept that a 14 year old has run faster than I think I'll ever be able to run.
No offense, but you might want to adjust your priorities, maybe even seek counseling
In the '70s and early '80s, there were a number of very young kids who were running marathons and getting a lot of attention for it. Offhand, I remember Bucky Cox at the age of five, Jennifer Amyx at five, Mary Etta Boitano at five or six, the Garritson family (particularly Carrie), and Wesley Paul, a Korean-American who was a big star in South Korea by the age of ten. (I remember Desiree Ficker in road races when she was about five years old, although I don't know when she started running marathons.) Some of those kids were pretty fast. Back then, the attention was largely positive, though there were certainly rumblings about pushy parents and long-term health effects.
With a cut-off age of ten -- that is, eligible until the eleventh birthday -- I would expect to see some kids (both boys and girls) who could run close to 2:40, and it wouldn't shock me to see comparable times from the Olympic winners.
Avocado's Number wrote:
Wesley Paul, a Korean-American who was a big star in South Korea by the age of ten.
Correction: He was a Chinese-American who was a big star in Taiwan.
I'm starting to think that my 2:40 guess may underestimate the talent of Kalinjen kids and the resources and methods of youth sports programs in the People's Republic of China.