I've had three good weeks of training these first three weeks of the year and I've been feeling pretty good about the rapid progress I'm making. Here's the 5K race comparables:
21:54 January 1
21:08 January 8
20:55 January 15
19:31 January 22
That's some impressive improvement!
Then I put it into context:
18:06 me in 2006
17:04 me in 2000
16:54 MN over-50 indoor record
16:17 MN over-50 road record (for MN native)
15:51 MN over-50 road record (by an out-stater)
15:41.6 US over-50 track record
15:36 US over-50 road record
15:28 me in 1985
14:53.2 world over-50 record
Still, if I keep taking off a minute per week, I'll have the world record in March!
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1 day ago
8 comments:
That is impressive! What's your secret?
Your recent training has been solid; nicely done!
Call me old fashioned, though, but I'm not going to accept your "5K race comparable" times until you produce a real race time! Not saying that your guesstimates aren't accurate, but without supporting evidence I'm going to digest them with a large grain of salt ...
I'd be embarrassed to admit in public that I was that slow.
Those are mile times, right, old man?
@Karen: Be a good 5K runner, but run ultras instead. Get asthma. Decide to start training for shorter races, get healthier, go from running in cold weather to running indoors.
@Colin: Obviously, I'm just having fun with numbers. I don't think I'll have a real 5K until maybe Brian Kraft.
Steve, for what it's worth according to this WAVA age grading calculator your 18:06 in '06 would be equivalent to an 18:58 this year, and your 17:04 in '00 would be equivalent to 18:43 now. So by that measure sub-19 would be your best 5K performance in at least 6 years, and 6:00 pace for 5K would be your best performance for at least 12. I'd say either would be a huge accomplishment!
For additional perspective, I would totally KILL for your 5k times.
Kill as in crush someone's head between my ginormous crossfit quads.
PS - tag you're it.
Bad workout? Hmmm...I guess I need to try to get a few of these bad workouts in myself.
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