My Life Goal as a Runners is...

...to be off the chart in every distance in those RunnersWorld pace charts they give you are races.

I've had this goal since I started running and now I'm getting close to the 5k mark. I think by the time I graduate I can get off the chart up to the 5 mile mark.
That 2:24:12 marathon is going to be the thing that can stop me from reaching that goal.

Just thought I share this useless information with you.

Heres a picture of a older verison (same times though)

That isn't hard at all (for a guy at least, and I mean 10k and under since most people haven't really gone over that distance, and competitively). And there are still plenty of girls who could do that.

Mocking my life running goal now? I would like to see you run a 2:24:12 marathon.

Running With Scissors wrote:Mocking my life running goal now? I would like to see you run a 2:24:12 marathon.

Did you see the part where I said "10k and under"?

And who knows, maybe if I trained for one but I'm more a mid distance person. I haven't really tried to competitively run above the 10k, but I could hit 10k and under (which plenty of people could though). I ran a 4 mile thing back in December in like 20 minutes (part of a relay, teams of 4 and each person runs a 4 mile loop.. Christmas relays hosted by a JC). Not that it matters, since I prefer mid distance (like the 800).

But yea.. 17 min 5k and all isn't that big of a deal... you would probably hit that at least before you graduated, I would guess... especially on a track.

I said I think I'll get up to the 5mile mark by graduation. I'll hit the 5k mark this year and maybe the 4 mile mark. I'll save the 5 mile mark for my 12th grade year

The 5 mile mark is also very doable. Basically an 8k.. probably equivalent to like a 16:30 5k. The 10k is equivalent to like 16:20 I would guess.. so nothing below 10k is really out of range/that hard. If you train, it is a very doable goal by at least before graduating..

Good Luck!!!

that would be kinda cool to say im off the charts lol.

my biggest goal as a runner is to keep running through out college and stuff and keep running after college and then once i get settled in with a job and family attempt a marathon. I want to be able to say I ran a marathon so bad..but at like a decent time at least. That way I'll always stay healthy and skinny and happy too if im always running.

Wow wrote: If you train, it is a very doable goal by at least before graduating..

+1, at least for 10k and under.

BEST THREAD EVER!!!!

but isn't that chart for slow marathoners anyway?

i just saw that chart yesterday in my RW magazine haha. good luck with going off the charrts

my life goal as a runner is to beat my dads 2:46 marathon at some point in my life.

I have trouble thinking long term...that chart is pretty cool though

PCNQtrack wrote:I have trouble thinking long term...that chart is pretty cool though

Don't the races around you give them to you for free? I have 3 of them.

AudienceOfOne wrote:BEST THREAD EVER!!!!

but isn't that chart for slow marathoners anyway?

but if you run a 2:24 marathon I bet your 5k time is in the real low 15s

I've never seen any

Running With Scissors wrote:

PCNQtrack wrote:I have trouble thinking long term...that chart is pretty cool though

Don't the races around you give them to you for free? I have 3 of them.

haha, I just got my first one like a month & a half ago

It is kind of mind-boggling to think how easily I could become the fastest person ever in my family tree. I only have one semi-serious runner from the 1900s or more recently that I know of. It seems so damn crazy that I may become more fit than anyone I have descended from.

I am the fastest person that I know of in my family tree but its not like I ask any of my family if they were good runners back in the day.

if i can break 17 in the 5k, and 2:46 in the marathon, i'd be the fastest in my family.

i can eat the most pizza in my family though

I'll def. never be the fastest.. maybe the fastest girl but thats not hard..haha

My coach gave me a chart like that last track season, no idea where it is.

RWS, are you aware that the pace in that chart is always the same? (This may have been said already, I only read the first post)

good luck with 26.2 at 5:30 pace. I would imagine that one would hurt like hell.

FinishingKick wrote:RWS, are you aware that the pace in that chart is always the same? (This may have been said already, I only read the first post)

I think he knows that...

Yes I know that. I just want to be off the charts. And yes that 2:24:12 marathon is gonna be a bi*ch.