must've been very f***in' local.
must've been very f***in' local.
It has often seemed as though 95% of the people who post on this site leapt from their mothers' wombs and hammered a 4:50 mile down the hospital corridor dragging their blood-stained umbilical cord behind them. In short, I think some healthy exaggeration goes on here.
That said, it would be interesting to see a list of replies on this thread revealing how many people have actually broken 15:00 for 5,000m, at what age and on what surface they did (the background of their best race) and what sort of training led them to do it.
In this way we can establish that Letsrun.com is the premier Internet watering hole for top level runners,
I haven't, and probably never will. PR of 15:45 on a 5K XC course.
Broke it many times in college. Never broke 14 though. Too many tactical races in D1 that are won in the 14:20's.
You say like you should have broak 14. This thread if for non bs. If you're really that good why don't you pony up with you name and some results?
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Broke it many times in college. Never broke 14 though. Too many tactical races in D1 that are won in the 14:20's.
name one time, provide a link to the results or something.
i never have. best is 15:45 road race; never run it on the track (was an 800/1500 guy)
And you don't know basketball if you, uh, can't dunk?
And you can't coach football if you haven't had a 100-yard rushing game, a 57 yard field goal, 3 interceptions in the first two minutes of the second half,...
What a person does on the field, court, track, or stage has little to do with how well they can talk it, write about it, or teach it.
that has absolutly nothing to do with this thread. This thread request the truth of what people have run. Nothing to do with coaching or talking about running in general. I'm interested in what point you where trying to make.
He is trying to find out the percentage of the people who post here that are upper-level runners.
I am offering that the percentage of good, great, or mediocre runners has little to do with the quality of posts, depth of experience in life in general, or what color underwear you have on.
After that we can go off into trying to prove what anyone says here is true or not. I am typing this from the flight deck of a Chilean aircraft carrier just south of Easter Island.
What's your point?
no, he's trying to find out how many people have actually broken 15:00. many posters here claim to have done it - like the guy above, yet no one provides any results.
14:45, admittedly that wouldn't happen today.
15:43 in a road race. (I'm 18)
That's me in 7th in 14:36. That was the 2nd time I broke 15 and have done it a few times since but that is still my PB. Matt
I have run well under 15:00 on a number of occasions. I still think I suck and want to get faster.
That's true isn't it. I had the same experience. The tactical races are fun though, when you win them.
i'm a rising sophomore. I ran 15:26 with a cold last season so hopefully sub 15 is in my future. maybe next year!
Then provide your name and race venue/date or a link to the result. Your post is meaningless otherwise.
I've broken 15 a few times but I don't like to brag. I hope everyone realizes breaking 15 doesn't mean that much. Scoring with chicks is a lot higher on my priority list.
I (and many others, I'm sure) ran sub-15 before the dawn of the internet era-- does that make my post meaningless as well?