How many years or months of training did it take you to break 20 in the 5k?

sorry superior guy. im not giving any information that would have any chance of leading to any info about who i am or the people i coach. Too many weirdos out there. My kid talked to 3 schools heavily. One offered preferred walk-on. One offered 6k--this was easily the worst school he talked to. Another offered 9k--he took it. There are parts of the country where people maybe don't want to move. D1 is not the be all end all. A lot of great cross kids will get full academic from a d2 or d3 school. And there are d2 and d3 schools that blow a poor d1 school out of the water, competitively speaking. My kid is not a great student, so he needed the athletic money and took it.

He is a late bloomer. No impressive track times. Im certain he would have broke 4:20 and 1:55 this spring, but he hadn't done that prior. Doesn't matter. He found a school to give him an envelope, regardless.

Must be a JUCO.

You, sir, are a liar. Flat out liar.

He's not lying. There are some really bad D1 teams. I don't know if these are the worst (just first place I looked), but check out Wisconsin-Green Bay, Evansville, Indiana-Purdue-Fort Wayne here:

https://www.athletic.net/CrossCountry/meet/169827/results/701862

And New Orleans, Louisiana-Monroe here:

https://www.athletic.net/CrossCountry/meet/143617/results/602599

zzzz wrote:

He's not lying. There are some really bad D1 teams. I don't know if these are the worst (just first place I looked), but check out Wisconsin-Green Bay, Evansville, Indiana-Purdue-Fort Wayne here:

https://www.athletic.net/CrossCountry/meet/169827/results/701862

And New Orleans, Louisiana-Monroe here:

https://www.athletic.net/CrossCountry/meet/143617/results/602599

Being bad usually means they have no money to give out. Which is why they are bad.

You are correct. The worse the program, the fewer scholarships. Most of the programs listed are non scholarship programs meaning they have none.

It took me about 3 years of running, 10mpw at 11, about 20mpw age 12-13, then broke it at age 14 at something like 25mpw

HM guy wrote:

It took me about 3 years of running, 10mpw at 11, about 20mpw age 12-13, then broke it at age 14 at something like 25mpw

It took me 9 years. 9 years at 6-10 mpw if I was running, 0 mpw otherwise. 2 months at ~40 mpw. I ran about 1 race per year (a local 5k) in 20:00-23:00 until I actually started trianing for running (aka hobbyjogging).

Emmett99 wrote:

HM guy wrote:

It took me about 3 years of running, 10mpw at 11, about 20mpw age 12-13, then broke it at age 14 at something like 25mpw

It took me 9 years. 9 years at 6-10 mpw if I was running, 0 mpw otherwise. 2 months at ~40 mpw. I ran about 1 race per year (a local 5k) in 20:00-23:00 until I actually started trianing for running (aka hobbyjogging).

Actually, maybe it took me 32 years, or maybe it took me 2 months. Depends how you want to interpret it, I guess.

My alma mater has 29:20 as the 4th runner and close to 31:00 for the 5th runner. Conference USA. They are full funded and reserve two full scholarships for distance running on the Men's side to either split or in my case offer a full. I think someone like superior guy doesn't understand the landscape of NCAA Division I athletics and I would challenge that he has more than one high school harrier under 16:00 for 5km XC.

8k or 10k? If 8k, no. Otherwise the coach should be fired. I have guys who will run 25:30 as freshmen in the fall who found no athletic scholarships. They would have gladly taken 50% to go to Conference USA and there are hundreds of guys like them who would do the same.

superior guy wrote:

How about track times? If you did not run at least 9:10, we are not believing you. Which colleges are you talking about? You should be happy to share. My guys talked to dozens of colleges who offered nothing for 15:40. One guy who qualified for nationals got a few bucks just so he could say he got a scholarship.

Assuming you're talking to me, I didn't run the 3200, but I ran 1:54 and 2:31 on the track.

david45 wrote:

How long did it take you?

Male.

Grade 8. Split 17:00 in a 10km road race. Minimal training.

First year running I went from 22:20 to 16:43 in 1 season. I was a sophomore. I stopped smoking, and started running everyday. Time trials was 22:20, first race 21:07, 2nd race 20:34, 4th was 19:16, and then I ran a few 18:40s, then I had a freak race of 17:40. At districts I had run 16:43. It's 99% genetics imo

Started running in 7th grade for cross country, maybe 15 mpw.

Ran most of the winter and summer, ran track.

8th grade; much of the same but probably boosted to about 20 mpw by the end, and no winter training.

9th grade, probably closer to 30~ mpw and ran 19:54 racing my first 5k.

Hi.

I am 35 years old and i start runinng, again, last summer.

In November ran the 5k in 20:34, in the track as time trail.

In January i took part in a road race 10k, 43:33 net time.

In May, 2 virtual races, 1 mile in 5:34 and 5k in 18:39.

I train up to 4 times per week, max distance 45km/week, most weeks are around 35km.

none, ran 16:56 my first race

Started running aged 35 , first 5k was 22:32 at the end of January 2011, ran 19:57 in mid April same year. Sub 19 was February the next year, and sub 18 took until July 2017

david45 wrote:

How long did it take you?

The first year that I ran track as a runner (was previously TJ) was as a junior in HS. That year, I was a 400m runner, doing about 15 mpw. Coach asked me to sign up for a fundraising 5K. I ran 19:30 or thereabouts.