What’s the fastest you’ve ever closed a 5k? (Last .107)

Also, I know for a fact both courses are wheeled and my gps was pretty close as well

About 15 seconds.

chill

Was this fast? wrote:

I’ll give a little background:

I just ran a relatively quick (flat) course after only extremely hilly courses where spikes were useless and ran 17:39 (5:47-5:47-5:30 for 3 mi) (5 sec pr, 60 sec Season PR) on Saturday.

Today was a league meet (dual meet) at our home course that is notoriously slow and I ran 17:43 (5:40-5:50-5:50 for 3 mi) with a kick of 23 seconds (~27 sec 200m) ... I was all out sprinting to beat a kid from the other team and have never closed this fast (unless you count the last rep of a 4x(300,200) Workout)

So the question is, what’s the fastest you have ever closed in a 5k that was relatively close to your date pr?

27 for 200m but only 23 for the last tenth? Unlikely.

If you ran hard enough all race not to have a 27 last 200, you would have beat more than that one guy.

Also, wtf is a 17 minute dude doing the last rep of a workout in 27 for?

Also, you did not run 27 for the last 200.

14 years ago, not sure the time but it was quite fast at least in my memory, ran probably around 18:2x 5k on a tough course but the last 100 finished on a track with a downhill right before we entered onto the track, all out sprint to outkick a teammate for a top JV spot haha. It was freshman year of high school.

College, mid 15 5ks the last 200 would be in a 32 or so sometimes, we'd joke about how rupp/solinsky keeps our kicks up for 10k..

16:49er here. Usually my kicks are in the 4:20-4:40/mi pace range, depending on the incline of the final stretch, what type of race it was, and other factors. In one of my races I hit sub-4:00 pace during the final few seconds.