What is your best time for 1500m on track? I am a high school teacher and one of my kids (17 YO male) is running 4'40"xx regularly. Is that decent?
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Pmswanepoel: Aug 15, 19 5:32
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Re: Track running PB [Pmswanepoel]
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Pmswanepoel wrote:
What is your best time for 1500m on track? I am a high school teacher and one of my kids (17 YO) is running 4'40"xx regularly. Is that decent?Well we have 10/11 year old boys running those times. Grace Ping, 13 year old girl, runs a similar pace for 5000m. It's solid, but he'd not going to representing his state or anything.
Re: Track running PB [zedzded]
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That’s decent for a high schooler- probably equal to a 5::00 mile. I ran 3:51 while in college. Would be fun to take another crack at it
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Re: Track running PB [Pmswanepoel]
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Assuming your 17yo is a male. It is decent, but not enough to really advance you out of a regional qualifier. Sounds like good potenial
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Re: Track running PB [Pmswanepoel]
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Our letter time I high school for the 1600 was 4:45 (converts to a ~4:25 in the 1500). To get to state (in the division I ran in Montana) you would have to run at least a 4:30-4:35 (4:11.5-4:16 in the 1500) to get to state in the 1600.
I was a 400/800 guy in high school and just ran the 1600 one time (4:37 so a would’ve been ~4:18 in the 1500)
Matt
I was a 400/800 guy in high school and just ran the 1600 one time (4:37 so a would’ve been ~4:18 in the 1500)
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Re: Track running PB [Pmswanepoel]
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4:40 shows some promise if they keep working at it and are able to progress so encourage them. But right now for a 17yo boy a 4:40 won't get them very far.
At 17 I was running between 4:01 and 4:05 for 1500 on the track and by 18 my last year of HS I was running 3:52
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At 17 I was running between 4:01 and 4:05 for 1500 on the track and by 18 my last year of HS I was running 3:52
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Re: Track running PB [Pmswanepoel]
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meh.....
Re: Track running PB [Pmswanepoel]
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whatever you do, do not go on Letsrun and post this
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Re: Track running PB [Pmswanepoel]
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It's good for a girl. Untrained Male is fine, but he needs to run sub 4 to be competitive on a state level, and sub 3:50 nationally.
I went 4 flat in high school and was only cracking the top 10 in IL. I was 4:42 for 1500 in 7th grade.
I went 4 flat in high school and was only cracking the top 10 in IL. I was 4:42 for 1500 in 7th grade.
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Re: Track running PB [AlyraD]
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AlyraD wrote:
whatever you do, do not go on Letsrun and post thisLOL
Re: Track running PB [Pmswanepoel]
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A 4:40 1500m is way better than him spending his time smoking pot and doing other crap that so many 17yo old dudes do.
Keep him interested and engaged, irrespective of his potential.
Keep him interested and engaged, irrespective of his potential.
AlyraD wrote:
whatever you do, do not go on Letsrun and post thisWell, ST isn't much better, TBH.
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