Banana Bread wrote:
Haven't quite reached the 4 minute barrier but not way off. I've gone 4:40.85. I hope to get closer again.
4:40 is WAY OFF
Banana Bread wrote:
Haven't quite reached the 4 minute barrier but not way off. I've gone 4:40.85. I hope to get closer again.
4:40 is WAY OFF
Riba wrote:
Howdy there, never posted before but have frequented the boards since high school. I just finished my college career for Texas A&M.
This Spring season I ran 3:59.12 in the mile indoors at Clemson, and 3:40.66 at Bryan Clay for the 1500m; additionally being the last qualifier at USA outdoors for the men's 1500m.
My progression looked a little like this.
*I started school late, so I was a year older for my grade
*(i) denotes season affecting injury
2008 (7th grade) - 5:06. The year I started running.
09'- 4:49 (1600)
10'- 4:35 (1600) (i)
11'- 4:18 (1600)
12' -4: 16 (1600) (i)
13'- 4:10 (1600), 4:12 (Mile) Senior Year of HS (i)
14'- 4:08 (Mile) Freshman year at A&M (i)
15'- 4:09 (Mile), 3:48 (1500m) (i)
16'- 4:03 (Mile), 3:45 (1500m) (i)
17'- 4:06 (Mile), 3:44 (1500m) (i)
18'- 3:59.12 Mile, 3:40 (1500m) Senior Year of Eligbility at A&M)
My running career in HS and college was plagued by injuries. All of which were a result of my over aggressiveness in training. The biggest being a stress fracture that was non-union and required surgery to fix during freshman year of college (right after my mile PR in 14'), that put me out for over 14 weeks total non-weight bearing on that leg. That injury and the atrophy that followed began a long slow recovery process of working back to fitness that at times I took to hard and caused secondary injuries that plagued me up until my senior year. In total I went Feb-Dec of 14' without anything more than an easy run.
Early on my coach had told me that if I could stay injury free for one solid year that I would break the four-minute mile. He was right. Being able to stay healthy and the consistency that followed is what lead to the breakthrough; so I attribute that rather than any single workout that I remember that helped me get there.
I do remember an Ashton Eaton quote which was something to the effect of, it's better to be 90% fit and healthy rather than 100% fit and injured. So for me, I had to shift to a better safe than sorry approach which to my training. Which worked in my case because I would run over 100+mpw every week of the year if I could.
There was a lot of things I had to work through to get under sub 4. All of which would lead to a very long post if discussed.
Cool, I used to watch the youtube video of your 2013 IHSA 3200m race against Jack Keelan all the time. I was an Illinois runner a year younger than you (not a very good one) and I thought that was one of the best races I'd ever seen at the state level. What were some of your workouts you regularly did in high school/college?
Got stuck at 4:02 and I'm now done.
HS
Frosh: 4:49
Soph: 4:42
Jr: 4:29
Sr: 4:33
College - small D1 on east coast
Frosh: 4:17
Soph: 4:09
Jr: 4:02
Sr: 4:02
I'm moving on and am opening a watersport biz at the beach.
Alex Riba from Texas A&M?
dritius wrote:
dritius wrote:
You end up breaking 6 yet?
You end up breaking 5 yet?
You end up breaking 4 yet?
dritius wrote:
dritius wrote:
You end up breaking 5 yet?
You end up breaking 4 yet?
Number 6 for Brady, eh? How was that world record attempt?
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