One Race a Month - October? (Read 769 times)

I dunno Jeff the 40+ year olds look pretty damn fast to me. I've won my age group a couple of times despite being beaten by some 40+ year olds. It feels kind of stupid when that happens.

yeah, I see that too - that's why I only mentioned the younger crowd. I typically wouldnt place inthe 40-49 AG either

I dunno Jeff the 40+ year olds look pretty damn fast to me. I've won my age group a couple of times despite being beaten by some 40+ year olds. It feels kind of stupid when that happens.

Huh. Wait til you get beat by a person running with a dog or a stroller. Incidentally, I'm learning that some people really hate to finish behind a guy in pink. Depending on my mood and how they choose to edge me out, this can be tremendously fun or annoying. Anyway, it isn't universal that we all get slow and creaky when turning 40. But we are closer to our first colonoscopy.

40+ year old MEN run faster in MN too. For woman 30+ is the fast group. Mostly I see it as a training difference, at least of the woman I know.

Interesting. The NYtimes had an article a while back on why 40 year old women are often faster than 20 year olds, and the author (gina kolata i assume) speculated that younger women just didn't try as hard. I didn't think that made a lick of sense as the 20 year olds grew up with title IX, while the 40 year old women didn't have as much access to competitive sports. In any case, it's the 40 year old women around my parts that are fast (not me!) while the men are dominated by guys in their late 20s and 30s. In the case of the women, it may be the particular individuals -- there's a handful of women who generally place in the first 3 of every race.

Here the fastest women are 40-45. I get my ass kicked by the masters woman every time. But the 35-39 are more tightly clustered. There will be 2-3 really fast 40+ and then it drops off rapidly, where the 35-39 you'll probably have 75% of the field within a few minutes of eachother. (in the 5K-HM dist) I agree with bugs that at the funrun level the 20 year olds arent all that focused. What you tend to see is people who maybe ran HS or college track or XC and now they go out and do these races on a weekend without training and are shocked that they arent as fast as they were when they were 17. MTA: as far as the title 9 thing...I'm 38 and really by the time I hit junior high and highschool, women had access to sports, especially track and XC. It was in 1972 and while it took awhile to get going, that puts 40 year olds in the thick of it.

I won my AG in my last 5k. I am 23 years old. I ran a 20:18. I finished ninth. That means that no one my age ran well. On top of that, what sucks is the 40-45 group and the 13-20 group smoked me.

I am really loosing interest in this goal, and all I have left is December. I need to quick organize a 5K in my town so I don't have to drive or pay $25.

Wah, I screwed up and missed September.