Just read about Amber Green, who ran her first marathon in 4.5 hrs then cut that by nearly 2 hours
Just read about Amber Green, who ran her first marathon in 4.5 hrs then cut that by nearly 2 hours
Amber is not "untalented", she's very talented. She just didn't know she was or how to train. Over the years if one has raw talent it will show if you learn to train. There's got to be several, naturally talented potential runners who've never taken up the sport, but then once they do, grow into it.
I know a guy who took up running in his mid-to-late 20s to lose weight. He was 220-230 lbs at 5'9", so definitely quite overweight at the time. He went on a crazy diet while starting the running program and dropped down to 140lbs in a little over a year (seriously).
He "accidentally" turned out to be pretty good; within 18 months of starting this whole thing he was running sub-15:30 and managed to break 2:30 for the marathon. He never got much faster, but held those types of times for close to a decade before starting to slow down. I think he started gaining weight again in his late 30s. Still - not bad for someone who initially took it up to lose some weight.
Myself. 30 minute 5 k to 18 minute 5k (female) over 6 years of training. Tended to drop in huge chunks, level off a little bit, then drop a huge chunk again.
Me, I went from a 60 min 10k at age 10 to a sub 30 min 10k ten years later.
I should have been more specific in excluding runners that gain fast times due to losing weight - that doesn't really have to do with talent
I'm talking runners who are average or light weight, no medical conditions, and run something like a 12 minute mile time trial then somehow cut it to 5 minutes.
I'm not familiar with Amber or her training up to her initial marathon. Yes, I suppose a lot of people couldn't wake up and run a marathon at 10 minute pace, or even a 5k at 10 minute pace. That's still a lot of progress though.
One of my teammates dropped 3-4 minutes over the summer for the 5K. He is a really slow skinny white guy with no speed. I think his 400 pr is in the high 60s. Don't think I've ever seen him break 30 for 200. He went from a 23 or so to an 18:51 in about a year. Pretty impressive I guess.
this thread should be renamed to “name the biggest gains you’ve seen in new runners with huge talent.”
A non-talented runner is never gonna hit a 2:30 marathon. It’s talent just to be able to run a 2:30.
I’ll answer the thread correctly since I fit the profile.. I’m an very untalented male runner. I’ve consistently trained since I was 15 and am now 35. In hs I opened with a 30 min 5k. I improved to a 21 minute 5k by senior year. At 28 I finally got a pr of 19:48. I’ve never hurt more than that race. Since then age has caught up and I’m a 22:30 runner now.
That is what an untalented runner actually looks like.
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Just read about Amber Green, who ran her first marathon in 4.5 hrs then cut that by nearly 2 hours
I did that and knew one other guy who did about the same. Once you do that though, people tell you that you were talented after all.
Thread retitle needed wrote:
this thread should be renamed to “name the biggest gains you’ve seen in new runners with huge talent.”
A non-talented runner is never gonna hit a 2:30 marathon. It’s talent just to be able to run a 2:30.
I’ll answer the thread correctly since I fit the profile.. I’m an very untalented male runner. I’ve consistently trained since I was 15 and am now 35. In hs I opened with a 30 min 5k. I improved to a 21 minute 5k by senior year. At 28 I finally got a pr of 19:48. I’ve never hurt more than that race. Since then age has caught up and I’m a 22:30 runner now.
That is what an untalented runner actually looks like.
Nope you are just lazy
Another obscenely talented runner who didn't realize it:
roblox oof sound wrote:
Thread retitle needed wrote:
this thread should be renamed to “name the biggest gains you’ve seen in new runners with huge talent.”
A non-talented runner is never gonna hit a 2:30 marathon. It’s talent just to be able to run a 2:30.
I’ll answer the thread correctly since I fit the profile.. I’m an very untalented male runner. I’ve consistently trained since I was 15 and am now 35. In hs I opened with a 30 min 5k. I improved to a 21 minute 5k by senior year. At 28 I finally got a pr of 19:48. I’ve never hurt more than that race. Since then age has caught up and I’m a 22:30 runner now.
That is what an untalented runner actually looks like.
Nope you are just lazy
Are you the best in the world? If not, why are you so lazy?