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FEMALE AGE GROUP: 45 - 49 GUN CHIP PLACE O'ALL NAME AGE TIME TIME PACE CITY STATE ===== ===== =================== === ======= ======= ===== 1 109 LYNNE NEELEY 49 24:59 24:59 8:04 Nashville TN 2 122 DIANA BIBEAU 46 25:33 25:33 8:15 3 125 TAMMY RICE 45 25:47 25:47 8:19 Lebanon TN 4 156 CINDY MOWREY 46 27:16 27:16 8:48 5 178 C JONES 45 28:56 28:56 9:20 6 208 MARILYN HOLDER 49 30:57 30:57 9:59 7 260 KAREN ROSE 46 37:41 37:41 12:10 8 270 CINDY EDWARDS 47 40:19 40:19 13:01 Nashville TN
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I am an average runner who is allmost 49 years old and I aim for under 26.5 minutes. Sometimes I am faster and sometimes I am slower. I hope to next year run our annual Beat the Odds 5 K in 25 minutes. It could happen
To put this into perspective, I just started out this week and am trying to work UP TO 2 miles. This week I've run a half mile twice. The first time I took 6 min and 30 sec. and this morning I did it in 5 min 50 sec. Gotta start somewhere. I'm planning to do a mini triathalon in May that ends with a 2 mile run and want to do that portion 13 minutes or less. I'm 45 years old.
Hi, I'm trying to get some idea of what the average running time should be for a 49 year old woman in a 5 K race. I know that it's hard to generalize but I need SOME idea and something to shoot for. I haven't yet run a race and I am just breaking the 2.5 mile mark of my running. Your fedback would be appreciated... thanks, Claudia
Everyone is very different. Particularly if you're starting out you just don't know how you're going to do until you give it a go. One of the hard things when you don't know what you're capable of is that you don't know how hard to go out at the start. Novices often get excited at races and go out too fast and then suffer at the end. Weight also makes a huge difference... if you're carry a few extra pounds it's much harder to compete with lean people.
The thing to remember is we all have limits that training will allow us to improve within, but some of us are never going to compete with the fastest, however much we train. But until you train you can't know how you'll get on.
For a 49 year old woman 16.xx would be a world class performance. 23.xx would be OK for someone who runs a decent milage weekly regularly.
And then slower that that depend on how little you run.
My wife is 48 and does a 5k some weeks... she does little running, but is generally fit and healthy. She doesn't really try to go flat out and typically does 27 or 28 mins.
This is a thread from November of 2006.
November of 2006.
MTA - But Montamat, you might be better off developing your aerobic capacity with something like the C25K program than trying to run short distances faster and faster.
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So I wonder what the average running time for a 5K is for a 53 year old...
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I guess we can call a 50% age graded time as "average". For a 49 y/o female that's a 32:40 5k, which lines up with the results for this division from my local turkey trot. Age group winners were 23 -25 mins. Where you fall in the age graded table doesn't mean much now. Just finish the race then figure out how to improve.
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For 5k races there are some interesting statistics via parkrun. This is an organisation here in the UK that organised weekly 5k races all around the country. Participation is encouraged from people all across the spectrum, from quite zippy club runners to first time runners. And there's a large range of ages.
The website collects results and it's interesting to browse through them if you're interested in this sort of thing. So for 49 year old women we can look at the rankings for the female 45-49 category at my local event. Seems like mid to hi 20s is typical amongst those who do the event regularly - there's a tail of slower people, but that tends to be people who one have only one or two attendances. And of course a few faster people.
FWIW I think that 50% is probably quite a low age grading for someone who's been running for some time and runs regularly - although I guess whether it's "average" is maybe a different question. My wife manages around 60% doing very little running other than a the 5k parkrun every couple of weeks. I manage around 70% off quite a bit of running (although most of it marathon training, rather than middle distance training.)