If that’s the case I’m fucked...
You're fucked when you can't run anymore.
My best running years have been in my 40s.
You're likely to carry a lot of that over into the 50s. How far is anyone's guess.
I'm personally training to best my "younger" self. Not so much in overall speed, but in holding pace X for longer than I could/did back then.
Former Bad Ass
True. But then I should stop obsessing with a PR if it’s never going to happen? Although my fastest year was 4 years ago, or 8-9 years after I started training, so...
Damaris
From the Internet.
From some dumb RW article "25 Golden Rules of Running" https://www.runnersworld.com/training/a20790553/the-25-golden-rules-of-running/ The 7-Year Rule The rule states: Runners improve for about seven years. Mike Tymn noticed this in the early 1980s and wrote about it in his National Masters News column. “My seven-year adaptation theory was based on the fact that so many runners I talked to ran their best times an average of seven years after they started,” he recalls. The Exception: Low-mileage runners can stretch the seven years to well over a decade before plateauing.
From some dumb RW article "25 Golden Rules of Running"
https://www.runnersworld.com/training/a20790553/the-25-golden-rules-of-running/
The 7-Year Rule
The rule states: Runners improve for about seven years.
Mike Tymn noticed this in the early 1980s and wrote about it in his National Masters News column. “My seven-year adaptation theory was based on the fact that so many runners I talked to ran their best times an average of seven years after they started,” he recalls.
The Exception: Low-mileage runners can stretch the seven years to well over a decade before plateauing.
Whew maybe all my injuries will work in my favor! I'm just about at 7 years right now, but I feel like I for sure have some more gains to milk before I can't get any faster. I've had a few good training cycles but some low mileage years too.
delicate flower
I figure I'm probably getting pretty close to topping out.
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I paid $4.50 for gas today. Perfect weather doesn't come cheap.
Ran 5 miles.
Re: 7 year improvement. I don't think the clock starts until you actually run with some focus/structure.
It's $2.89 here, up from about $2.50 for the past several years. Rumor has it that it is only going up, up, up.
I agree with this. My first HM I think my weekly mileage was an average of 12 miles per week lol
Also about the 7 year clock, I do know quite a few runners who ran in high school, college and still continued to improve after that. Granted most of them weren’t focusing on HM or marathon distance til after college.
I ran my first half on an 8 mile "long" run.
Just had dinner with onemile.
I don’t know how to post a picture from my phone so imagine you saw it.
Ha me too! And I ran them all as fast as I could
D - where did you guys go?
speaking of coaches and paces, mine said to start at a 7:25 pace tomorrow through the halfway. I was thinking more along 7:35 but what’s the worst that could happen
6 humid miles for me, but I beat the thunderstorm home.
D - where did you guys go? speaking of coaches and paces, mine said to start at a 7:25 pace tomorrow through the halfway. I was thinking more along 7:35 but what’s the worst that could happen
The pizza place you suggested. It was good.