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Male or Female? Age or Grade?
For males, guessing high teens to mid twenties for the marathon. But you'll put in mega mileage.
run with the wom wrote:
Male or Female? Age or Grade?
Female, aged 47. Semi-competitive Masters runner.
Untalented wrote:
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A in T, also.
There's extremely little to go on.
Fastest at what distance? Other current PRs, years running and training distance. Any answer w/out these is pulled out of one's nether regions.
I just want some ballpark times that a highly trained person would be able to achieve with this sort of top end speed at higher distances. In the 800, mile, 5k, 10k, half and full maybe?
Untalented wrote:
I just want some ballpark times that a highly trained person would be able to achieve with this sort of top end speed at higher distances. In the 800, mile, 5k, 10k, half and full maybe?
Sub 2:40 in the 800. There's not much correlation with the half and full. You obviously have some fast twitch muscles, but those events are slow twitch. The women at your age I've trained with who had less 200 speed than you could run 3:40 marathons, if that helps. A couple could run sub 3:30.
I ran a 2:45 800m during intervals so I know I could go sub 2:40 fresh. I am also in about 1:37-8/3:30 half and full shape. My fear is that I’m not going to get much faster now at all unless my speed was better but I feel very maxed out in the speed department right now, I spent over 3 years doing expolosive weight work, flexibility/ROM work, sled pulls and very short distance top-speed running with a coach just to get my 200m time down to what it is now, I even entered a 400mH meet in the middle of doing this training just to see how my fitness was coming along and I ran 1:16.8.
I still do workouts to maintain this speed on top of mileage and I definitely don’t neglect anaerobic work because without it, at my age, my times at all distances would begin to slow down. I could run all the mileage in the world but Intervals and speed work were the only thing that allowed me to ever get truly “in shape”. I wouldn’t have a hope on earth of breaking even a 25 minute 5k or a 4 hour marathon without it, I thought that because I was a “distance” runner that Intervals/speed were not important and all it was down to was miles, miles and more miles and it was only until I got a coach that I realised that it DID matter.
Probably 31.8
Untalented wrote:
I ran a 2:45 800m during intervals so I know I could go sub 2:40 fresh. I am also in about 1:37-8/3:30 half and full shape. My fear is that I’m not going to get much faster now at all unless my speed was better but I feel very maxed out in the speed department right now, I spent over 3 years doing expolosive weight work, flexibility/ROM work, sled pulls and very short distance top-speed running with a coach just to get my 200m time down to what it is now, I even entered a 400mH meet in the middle of doing this training just to see how my fitness was coming along and I ran 1:16.8.
I still do workouts to maintain this speed on top of mileage and I definitely don’t neglect anaerobic work because without it, at my age, my times at all distances would begin to slow down. I could run all the mileage in the world but Intervals and speed work were the only thing that allowed me to ever get truly “in shape”. I wouldn’t have a hope on earth of breaking even a 25 minute 5k or a 4 hour marathon without it, I thought that because I was a “distance” runner that Intervals/speed were not important and all it was down to was miles, miles and more miles and it was only until I got a coach that I realised that it DID matter.
When I was 5 years older than you, I decided to quit the half and full marathon entirely and focus on track events and the occasional 5k. It has worked well for me.
You need to decide where you want to be 5, 10, and 15 years from now and plan accordingly. Weights and HIIT (speedwork) are essential to staying young.