Hypothetically speaking what do you think the avg 20 year old male run for 10k, if they did serious training for a number of years. I’ve seen threads about the mile, but not this distance. I wanna say 39:00-40:00. Let me know your thoughts.
Hypothetically speaking what do you think the avg 20 year old male run for 10k, if they did serious training for a number of years. I’ve seen threads about the mile, but not this distance. I wanna say 39:00-40:00. Let me know your thoughts.
If they were active in other aerobic sports and trained seriously for 4-5 years they could probably crack 35.
There are a LOT of 20 somethings on strava who have been sedentary their entire post-puberty lives who pick up running and struggle to break 60 after a year of training, get injured and then quit the sport, so the average 20 year old would be much slower.
I buy sub-40 as a good goal for the average 20 year old male. Average time is off of that obviously. Multiple years of training with good coaching could get a lot of people there. Some would still fall short.
BITD, when road races were popular and large numbers of well trained people showed up for them, 40 was considered the threshold for being respectable. So, that might be about right that a totally average 20 year old would be around that. Anyone with any sort of decent athletic ability should be much faster than 40, however.
I don't consider that I was terribly talented, but I ran 45:09 in 7th grade and my longest run had been 3.5 miles in a PE class. I ran 39:45 my freshman year of HS after finishing a track season where we were running about 35 mpw. I did 2 weeks at 50 prior to that race.
I have a 20 year old nephew who just completed sophomore year of college. In HS, he played four years of varsity basketball and soccer, no track or xc at all. Through college so far, he's played pickup hoops and soccer a few days each week plus semi-organized club soccer Aug-Nov. His club soccer squad begins each season with a timed 2-mile run on the same course each year. He ran 11:58 his first year and 12:02 the next. Other than these two time trials and 20 min group jogs during HS bball/soccer practice, he has never run continuously longer than 100m. He spends most weekends pounding beers, chasing tail and crushing junk food with his crew.
If nephew stopped drinking, cleaned up his diet and started training like a XC guy on scholarship, what's his 10k potential?
Perhaps there's a bit of a selection bias at play, but every single male I've known that's trained properly for more than a few years has broken 40 minutes for 10k (And many have run much, much faster than that).
When you say "average", it tends to confuse the question - because the average 20 year old male is never going to train properly for a number of years - and if he did, he would no longer be average.
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