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What was the "Class A time" for the Marines 20 years ago? No offense but if you broke 18 minutes (6:00 mile) for the 3 mile I'd be surprised. Kipchoge just ran

What was the "Class A time" for the Marines 20 years ago? No offense but if you broke 18 minutes (6:00 mile) for the 3 mile I'd be surprised. Kipchoge just ran a 4:30 mile for 26 miles. Hell, the best marathoner the US had in the 2000 Olympics ran a 2:30. Literally a half hour slower than Kipchoge.

llimllib 7y ago
> No offense but if you broke 18 minutes (6:00 mile) for the 3 mile I'd be surprised. Curious, but why? That's an extremely achievable time for anybody who is athletic and trains. (no disagreement that 4:30 pace is vastly more difficult than 6:00)
- ErikAugust 7y ago
  “Who trains”, yes. Not saying that someone couldn’t do that in a PT test but more often than not, people aren’t training to the level they’d achieve that. If they were running distance in high school, sure. It’s an ordinary time for a high school varsity cross country runner.
  - llimllib 7y ago
    shrug I think 6:00/mi for 3 miles is very achievable for a normally athletic male who practices running a small amount. (Just went back to my logs: when I picked up running at age 34, it took me four months of running ~4 days a week to run a 5k at <6:00/mi. I say this not to brag, but to say that it's a pretty pedestrian time, especially for a young presumably fit marine)
  - bandrami 7y ago
    I mean, you do run a whole lot in the Marines, you know?
- saagarjha 7y ago
  > That's an extremely achievable time for anybody who is athletic and trains. Right, a number of people in my high school did that regularly in PE class (unfortunately, I’d usually come in a half-dozen minutes later…). This isn’t anything special.
bandrami 7y ago
> No offense but if you broke 18 minutes (6:00 mile) for the 3 mile I'd be surprised. Ummm... why? Back then I ran 5 miles 3 times a week. They tend to nudge you out of infantry if you aren't getting a class A PFT; I would usually traipse in at 17:30 or so.

llimllib 7y ago

> No offense but if you broke 18 minutes (6:00 mile) for the 3 mile I'd be surprised. Curious, but why? That's an extremely achievable time for anybody who is athletic and trains. (no disagreement that 4:30 pace is vastly more difficult than 6:00)

ErikAugust 7y ago
“Who trains”, yes. Not saying that someone couldn’t do that in a PT test but more often than not, people aren’t training to the level they’d achieve that. If they were running distance in high school, sure. It’s an ordinary time for a high school varsity cross country runner.
- llimllib 7y ago
  shrug I think 6:00/mi for 3 miles is very achievable for a normally athletic male who practices running a small amount. (Just went back to my logs: when I picked up running at age 34, it took me four months of running ~4 days a week to run a 5k at <6:00/mi. I say this not to brag, but to say that it's a pretty pedestrian time, especially for a young presumably fit marine)
- bandrami 7y ago
  I mean, you do run a whole lot in the Marines, you know?
saagarjha 7y ago
> That's an extremely achievable time for anybody who is athletic and trains. Right, a number of people in my high school did that regularly in PE class (unfortunately, I’d usually come in a half-dozen minutes later…). This isn’t anything special.

bandrami 7y ago

> No offense but if you broke 18 minutes (6:00 mile) for the 3 mile I'd be surprised. Ummm... why? Back then I ran 5 miles 3 times a week. They tend to nudge you out of infantry if you aren't getting a class A PFT; I would usually traipse in at 17:30 or so.