6' 2" male, 200 lbs, currently run 25-30 miles a week.
Recent times within the last few months
5k- 20:10
5 mile- 34:05
10 mile 1:12:15
Half: 1:36
How much faster will I get from bumping up to 40 mpw and losing 10-15 pounds?
Thanks in advance
6' 2" male, 200 lbs, currently run 25-30 miles a week.
Recent times within the last few months
5k- 20:10
5 mile- 34:05
10 mile 1:12:15
Half: 1:36
How much faster will I get from bumping up to 40 mpw and losing 10-15 pounds?
Thanks in advance
what do you want to hear fatty magoo?
Step 1 - lose the weight
Step 2 - race
Stop 3 - answer your own question
savage
Dude lose the weight ....
you'll be so much faster...
drop 30 pounds.
give me a ballpark- would 30 pounds be realistic? what kind of times could I achieve? need some tangible benefit I could possibly see
typical millenial. whatever happened to hard work and grit. setting a goal and going out there and making it happen for god sake. stop trying to find someone to hand you the answer. go get your answer.
Craig Mottram
6' 2"
163
Start there as a goal.
He was fast.
Your results may vary.
I'm an experiment of 1.
If I gained 60 pounds there is no way I could run a 4 hour marathon.
I run 6ft at 140-
1:11 half
2:26 thon
The rule of thumb is one second per mile per pound, so if you lost 10 pounds, you would be 30 seconds faster over the 5k.
The effects of mileage are more difficult to anticipate.
depends
FatsDominos wrote:
6' 2" male, 200 lbs, currently run 25-30 miles a week.
Recent times within the last few months
5k- 20:10
5 mile- 34:05
10 mile 1:12:15
Half: 1:36
How much faster will I get from bumping up to 40 mpw and losing 10-15 pounds?
Thanks in advance
A few things...
I did the math and at a BMI of 25.73, its not fat nor are the times slow.
Having said this, I know you can get faster. In fact, I am sure of it. How can I be sure?
I race between 170-173 pounds usually.
With your BMI at my height and weight, you are right now the equivalent of 163 pounds. Therefore, you would weigh less and theoretically be faster.
Having said that, your times are close to mine in different ways
5k 19:35
8k--cc course 33:52
5 mile 33:23
10k 42:27
Half 1:41
Full 4:10
I think you can beat my times from 5k-10k and then the longer distance will get faster
FatsDominos wrote:
6' 2" male, 200 lbs, currently run 25-30 miles a week.
Recent times within the last few months
5k- 20:10
5 mile- 34:05
10 mile 1:12:15
Half: 1:36
How much faster will I get from bumping up to 40 mpw and losing 10-15 pounds?
Thanks in advance
All things being equal, meaning that the training is the same while fat and less fat, I find that my times at all distances fall by the percentage of weight loss.
At 160 pounds, my race pace is about 6% faster than at 170 lbs. Train better and the percentage drops even more.
When my marathon PR was about 3:13 in my forties, I dropped to 3:03+ by simply dropping from 170 to 160 lb.
My times have gone the other way when my affinity for red wine has trumped my self-discipline in the last months before a race.
I'm running a marathon this fall- so hoping to bumpy my mileage up slowly to 40-50 mpw.
Ultimately would love to break 70 for 10 miles and a sub 3:30 thon
Weight doesn't have any impact on fitness or health. You can be healthy at any size. Society just pushes unreasonable body standards. I have seen heavier people break 4 hours in a marathon multiple times. Can't argue with that!
Your half marathon time will drop down to 1:28:42, and your 5k will drop to 19:30.
Encouraged by these results you will pursue mileage and weight loss more aggressively, bringing your body weight down to 168lbs and your weekly miles up to 70.
At the local turkey trot, despite a fantastic start, you will be beaten by someone’s buddy from work who is shorter than you, and fat.
Frustrated by chronic fatigue you will become anaemic and your half marathon times will increase and more and more casual runners will continue to beat you.
Disenchanted with running you will turn to drugs to alleviate your growing existential dread, using running as an excuse to mistreat your body and family.
You will gain back all the weight in a blur of cheap off-brand cookies and resentment leaving you back where you started, but years closer to death.
In a bizarre twist you will discover a passion for knitting and start an incredibly successful business knitting ironic sweaters for ageing hipsters. It will vault you to international acclaim and you will use this platform to spur mankind’s journey to populate the stars and spread throughout the galaxy.
I say go for it.
What's with all the hobbyjogger threads lately?
I enjoyed this reply more than I should have.
10/10
FatsDominos wrote:
How much faster will I get from bumping up to 40 mpw and losing 10-15 pounds?
you could run 16:15-16:45
this trolling is almost worst than the kind who said i'd have a knitting problem down the road (which I dont btw I can stop knitting whenever I want, I just choose not to)
Anyone have any serious estimation what increased mileage (40-50 mpw) combined with some weight loss?