8th grade: 5:07
9th grade: 4:49
10th grade: 4:30
11th grade: 4:28
12th grade: 4:27
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Lots of interim injury issues
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Senior in college: 4:22 (early season race, ran 8:35 3k a month or so later)
Dropped down quickly early in high school after quitting soccer to focus on running, but didn't really improve much at all from there. Lots of injury related coulda shoulda woulda's here.
By Age
14: 5:20
15: 5:01
16: 4:46
17: 4:38
18: 4:36
19: 4:14
20: 4:11
21: 4:10
22: 4:09
8th - 6:12
9th - 4:58
10th - 4:39
11th - 4:28
12th - injured (4:42)
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28 years old - 4:15
I never ran a 1500/1600 until college. Started out as a freshmen running the 100/200. Typical of a high school track coach, I was one of the fastest in the 100 the first day of practice. Didn't figure out I was a middle distance runner until April of my senior year when needing someone to run in the 4x800 relay.
Had a teammate that went:
F: 4:51
S: 4:38
J: 4:26
S: 4:23
By age:
14- 5:15 (1600)
15- 5:03 (")
16- 4:36 ('')
17- 4:31 ('')
18- 4:26 ('')
19- 3:59 (1500)
20- 4:19 (mile), 3:56 (1500)
Age:
14: 5:20
15: 5:08
16: 5:00
17: 4:35
18: 4:31
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22: 4:12
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30: 4:06
These were 1600 Times:
8th Grade/Age 13: 4:51.3
9th Grade/Age 14: 4:28.8
10th Grade/Age/15: 4:27.5
11th Grade/16: 4:14.8
12th Grade/17: 4:16.0
PR for 1500 at ages 24 and 27: 3:41.6
...4:00.2 for 1M
8th grade-5:19
9th grade-5:05
10th grade-4:59
11th grade-4:46
12th grade-4:43
Fr. 4:35
So:4:27
Jr. 4:16
Quit
Now 4:55 :((((((
7th- 5:33
8th- 5:23
9th- 5:13
10th- 5:03
11th- 4:59
12th- 4:50
College Freshman- 4:26 1500
Sadly broke the 10 second a year streak junior year... and started to realize I was more of a long dinstance person.
9th: 5:07
10th: 4:52
11th: 4:40
12th: 4:30 (probably woulda been faster, but stopped running it halfway to focus on 800)
freshman xc: 4:23 time trial
freshman track: 4:17
I always focused on longer distances, but here is my mile progression (converted from 1600/1500)
8th did not run
9th 5:00
10th: 4:28
11th: 4:12
12th: 4:10
college frosh: 4:07
college soph: 4:07
college junior: 4:05
did not run 1500/mile again... was a 5k/10k runner
9th: 5:10
10th: 4:59
11th: 4:47
12th: 4:42
Fr: 4:29
So: 4:22
Jr: 4:16
Sr: 4:13
9th: 5:08
10th:4:40
11th: 4:31
12th: 4:24
college soph: 4:20
8th: 5:22
9th: 4:58 (only ran once)
10th: 4:41
11th: 4:33
I run the 800 more than I do the mile so I'll throw in my progression in that as well
8th: 2:19
9th: 2:08
10th: 2:03
11th: 2:00
7th-5:55
8th-5:35
9th-5:11
10th-4:48
11th-4:40
12-tbd
9: 5:14
10: 4:57
11: 4:59
12: 4:40
Frosh college: 4:19 1500m
Soph college: 3:59 1500m
Freshman year: 5:30
Senior year: 5:26
if you need someone to run a mediocre mile, i'm your gal :)
9th - 5:09
10th - 4:57
11th - 4:45
12th - 4:35
Freshman - goal is a sub 4:15 in the 1500.
I'm honestly surprised there's​ only one sub-4 guy that replied to this thread. I thought there would've been a couple more at least. Also, I like how people feel like they have to make excuses for their times like "was sick", or "coach sucked". Dude, everyone has setbacks. Stop qualifying your times with dumb crap like that.
6th - 5:59
7th - 5:59
8th - 5:28
9th - 5:06
10th - 5:03
11th - 4:53
12th - 4:56
I never did any off season training... regretting that after a couple of years. Sophomore and senior year of high school I was coming off of an injury and meningitis respectively. When I ran the 4:53 junior year I had still never broken 5 minutes, but could run 5 flat in practice and PE on command, just took the right race, strategy, and visualization to get it to happen. I'm training for 5K right now but once this race in August happens I plan on training for the mile and going sub 4:30.
9th: 4:42
10th: 4:30
11th: 4:21
12th: 4:11