Borris said:Hi,
What do you think would be good a mile time (time it would take to jog a
mile), for an adult male with no particular genetic giftedness in jogging?
At what point does he have something that he can be proud of that other
runners might not scoff at?
Train and you'll get better. Not everyone can be Roger Bannister, but if you
walk the walk, no-one will scoff at you.
But instead of running time trials in obscurity, it may be more fun and more
encouraging to enter a short (5k) road race. You may be able to find a track
meet, but even when you can find such a thing, they attract very fast runners,
which can be a bit discouraging for a beginner (nearly all of the competitors
are very fast by road race standards)
If you have a reasonable level of fitness, at a 5k race, you will probably be
one of the many runners who finishes somewhere in the middle of the bunch.
A pace of 7:00-9:30 per mile would put you somewhere in the middle. Under 7:00
and you're closer to the front, under 6:00 and you're probably in the top 50,
under 5:00 and you may win. Most of the runners in typical road races are not
very gifted in running.
Cheers,
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Donovan Rebbechi
http://pegasus.rutgers.edu/~elflord/