NotPC wrote:
How old were you when u went sub5.
I was in the 8th grade.
Peaked early, huh?
NotPC wrote:
How old were you when u went sub5.
I was in the 8th grade.
Peaked early, huh?
Lame as usual wrote:
NotPC wrote:
How old were you when u went sub5.
I was in the 8th grade.
Did you ask this question just so you can brag on yourself when you were in 8th grade? Uncle Rico?
LOL no I guess I can see how it could be taken that way. I have a nephew that has started running and shows promise, was just looking to see if others were around where I was or not.
He's in 6th, ran 5:25 on an actual track, not some loop around the school or some gym teacher clocking kids in the gym.
15. 10th grade (back when HS was 3 years so this was my first year running). First race was 5:00. Broke my arm. Ran my next race in 4:48 with a cast on (better field to run against).
It's really difficult to extrapolate times you run when younger to how fast you'll be when mature. A rival ran 4:19 in 10th. Ran 4:17 in 11th (and 9:03). He was a god as far as I was concerned.
I beat him my senior year (he was always much better than me in XC, 5 and 10k. I just had more speed). Some people mature faster than other. Some adapt to training faster, or train more when they are younger, or play more soccer or other endurance sport.
13 years old, 4:57 in 7th grade.
14. I was running across a tomato field because I was late for class. The cross country coach happened to be in a truck nearby with a stopwatch. He turned to his daughter and said: "that guy just did a five minute mile."
notafatty wrote:
28. In high school we ran the 1600 in college we ran the 1500. I didn't run a mile race until I was 28.
20.
GFY
McFarland usa wrote:
14. I was running across a tomato field because I was late for class. The cross country coach happened to be in a truck nearby with a stopwatch. He turned to his daughter and said: "that guy just did a five minute mile."
Then he raped you. In 2 minutes.
15 and about half a year, went 4:57.
16 years old in the first mile of my two mile.
I was 14. Most important is how fast you end up though. I only ran 4:15 while some late developmers go onto be much faster. I had a classmate run 2:05 for 800 in 7th grade who never broke 2. The national freshman record holder ran 4:09 and he is in college now but has never run faster.
Last race of Freshmen year track - 4:58
Never but I think (hope) at points I could have. I've ran 1:23 half which supposedly suggests sub 5 ability and I've ran 3x1 at 5:20-5:30 so I think that would at least get me close. I keep meaning to put in the effort and try and do it but never actually get around to it. 29 now. It may happen but it may not. I ain't losin sleep over it though.
At the time I did it I identified as a 4-year-old. I hold the age group world record. Still waiting on the IAAF to ratify it.
The first time I ran a 1600 that is equivalent to a sub-5:00 mile I was 14. It was a 4:55 1600. At 16 I finally did the real thing, in 4:32. It was actually pretty upsetting because at the time my best 1600 was 4:19.
14, first mile race, 4:57, never looked back.
First race track race I ever did as I played basketball in high school exclusively (even though I’m only 5’9) and walked on the track team my freshman year of college and after a few weeks of training I ran a 4:48 mile indoor. I’ve been plagued with injuries since and have had a few really bad cross country races but I don’t think I’ll be able to ever break 5 again.
We didn't run 1600 or mile in 6th thru 8th in Oregon late 70s early 80's. But in 6th grade I ran 3:43 in the 1320, then they moved it to 1200m in 7th 3:33 and 8th 3:21. Ran the 1500m once and ran 4:19 (AAU). High school went pretty good.
Home from school after my freshman year in college, I was out running laps for fitness on a cinder track when I felt the urge to burn a mile for time. Timing myself on my old fashioned wristwatch (second hand sweeping around, not a stopwatch), I counted 5 on the nose, but I could have been on either side by a fraction. I'll call it 4:59.98. I'll never know the real time, but sub-5 suits the ego. Never was timed again for a measured track mile. Wish I'd taken advantage of relative fitness and entered a competitive mile that summer, though...coulda hit 4:58 maybe! Way back in my sophomore year in high school I'd run 5:04. What potential! Just to be clear, I'm a guy (and just a plodder).
NotPC wrote:
How old were you when u went sub5.
I was in the 8th grade.
So you were 17?