Sensible comment.

Do some runners develop eating disorders? In what way?

@@Speedofsound9 its surprisingly common in female athletes. I think it has to do with being too aggressive with reaching a target race weight

@jakerussell135 really eh? I wouldn't have guessed. Thanks for the info! I always assumed runners were mowing down food and training everyday

@@Speedofsound9 There's a big advantage to being light in distance running, and it can be very tempting to push it too far. Chronic underfueling can work in the short term, but it's always paid for in injuries and burnout in the longer term - and sometimes even more serious life limiting issues EDs are particularly common among young female runners, and because of this you find that many of the fastest adult female runners weren't exceptionally quick during their high school years, and vice versa. The teen runners who eat well give themselves the best chance to develop into fast, resilient adults - but couldn't quite compete with the super skinny whippets who were starving themselves through puberty, but whose bodies don't fully develop as a result. Unfortunately some coaches even encourage it or bully their young athletes in to unhealthy dieting to benefit from their short term success. There's a special place in hell for them.

That's the thing isn't it. Will she stay in the sport or will she be distracted by other things as she grows up. Fingers crossed, she stays in the sport!

It‘s just another case of too good too early

I might know who this girl is. I also live in Virginia lol. A friend of mine told me a 9 year old beat him and he runs high 19s/low 20s

I know the feeling, except I also get crushed by 60+ year olds which is rather annoying

@@sleeepey Yeah, I know one of those too lol

U need a training program to lower you time. Ones tip is, never run the same every day. Blessings

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Some 16 year old kid ran 29:35 from Norway too

32.43? Fantastic. I guess this is the best time ever 13 year. Kobe Stewart, Australia, was 12 year and 8 months when he did 33.08.94 back in 2020. This time is also world leading time for 13 years old. But this list over world leading time dont include all countries. Could be some africans with better times.

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Bro I’m 13 and have a 19:57 💀

15, 15:07. Still pushing to improve before States, and hopefully Nationals

Dude I can run it in 10mins.. not sure if that's a world record but it's gotta be close. I'm 7.

​@bastogne315 please tell me you are joking, the wr for ALL AGES is 12 and a half minutes. You dumb dumb

oh yeah, that could be important. born with a silver medal in her mouth.

same, i used to run 25 at that age

dont let anyone fool you its genes we used to run to school at a very tender age so in reality its like training and the earlier you start followed by consistency over a period of years you will be world class, same case applies to any other sport

Was looking for a comment like this to express my whole hearted belief. I am 15 and have been running 10 years competitively, 13 years total. I have seen so many “good” runners come and go. Have placed second in XC states, gone to national meets, or small local 5ks so I've seen a lot. What I notice is it's the way people train nowadays. Was just talking to a solid competitor of mine in recent years and he got a stress fracture. He won't be competing for a while and most likely will go like the rest of them and be unremarkable. They will get fast times quickly, but they cannot maintain them over the years. Still impressive, but notice it's on a road (perfect surface) and wearing supershoes. My PR is 15:07 ON GRASS AND HILLS and it's going to continue to improve. My teammates also have this instant success mindset and it's not good. They aren't improving and over the long run have actually gone backwards.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakob_Ingebrigtsen although not a 12-year old when he first started getting famous he probably was really good back then as well

@@MickTemple 1.) I doubt you're 15 years old. 2.) I Doubt you have ever run a 15:07 IF U ARE 15 YEARS OLD. Considering the 15 year old ROAD Record is 15:19 you arent running 15:07 on grass and hills. And if you are INDEED 15 and ran that time. Please Share a link to the results or else, youre just talking out your...you know what. Also @5 years old u running competitively.... Be real how much more can you lie.

Jakob Ingebrigtsen

Link isn't working, but I ran this at a post season race so it's been measured. This course doesn't look it, but it has gradual up hills and a quick up and down when we pass over a bike path. It's all on grass and the day of I almost slipped on some turns because of the mud. 5 years old is Kindergarten and my school offered a grade school running program so my Dad put me in it. We had already been running together off and on. It's okay if you don't believe me but I'm not lying.

Well the trick is how does she progress from here? Is she on a trajectory of quicker and quicker times towards low 14s in 4-6 years or is she going to hit a plateau much sooner? It's a long way to low 15s, as good as she is. Girls develop faster as well, and she could be just super fast at getting most of her growth now, without much to go. You don't see much about the top women runners in terms of what times they could run at age 11-16. A lot don't even start running until then so there's less to compare. What does she weigh - 35kg? 30kg? Might get a bit harder unless she tops out at 40kg. Shivers.

Yes, 17:56 is a very good time for a girl 11 years old. This norwegian girl run 17:16 when she was 11 year. I guess it is an unoffisiell world best time. I know an australian girl same age run 17:41 in 2020, and it was until now the world best time on 5K for girls 11 years.

24:48 after decades of training? Is this a joke? Anyone, under 50, should be able to break 25min 5K, with only few months of training.

she'll burn out by then

Defiantly crazy fast took me 2 years for a 18:17 5k

Yes, i thought the same. But Grace Ping was almost a year older then this girl. Ping run 5K in 16.44, only 3 weeks before she was 13 years.

I think Bros ankles are on life support💀

Like Kiptum. She's on epo. /s

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I think her future is potentially amazing . I would temper that with this: in my youth I was lucky enough to see a totally brilliant middle distance runner at my school .He had the whole world at his feet. It was never a case of whether he won or not, it was always a case of by how far. But he decided after several years to just quit.

This makes me think of athletes such as Claudia Lane and Melody Fairchild. Great Athletes. But, where are they? Or what happened?

In all seriousness sub 17 is fast enough that she could probably at least get close to it no matter what shoes she uses. Cheap shoes? Less than 17'25" every time.

Yes these clips come from the actual race. Also the group around her was pacing her through much of the 5k so she could get a fast time.

It's Norway, now every runner wants to be a new Ingebrigtsen or Warholm... They are really serious when it comes to sports.

there are no winners are parkrun - just first finishers - ha. Her age grade score would be about 173.45%

Nice time! I've only run the 5K once in my life, when I was 17: I got leave to train on my own in a gym class and jogged over to a nearby (dirt) track where I ran in 17:45. That speed was pretty much my ceiling, I ran (within the margin of the final sprint lap) exactly the same speed in the army 3K test two years later, and on a 17K road run the same year: I.e. about 17-17,5 km/h.

For every kid phenom, almost none make it to world class. It's far more likely someone you've never heard of breaks through at 18+. J.Ingebrigsten is the real GOAT for having greatness as a kid and becoming world class

Running doesn't really work that way. The reason super fast kids tend not to go on to achieve incredible feats is simply because they have been given physical advantages at an earlier age. It's not down to lack of desire. Kids need to get through ages 13-17 and then see where they are. Things tend to even out. And then, at around that age, the real talent starts to show, when aerobic and anaerobic ability combines and times start tumbling. For boys, it's not uncommon to see lads who were running 19 or so for 5k, push that down to 15/16 minutes in the space of 18 months. They just take off. The one thing that can be tough for the fast youngsters is that all of a sudden everyone catches up to them (literally).

@@user-ss2cz4be6q true, and especially for this girl who is only 12.. i guess my point is the really talented runners are rarely obsessed like the really good untalented kids who put in the training. 🤷‍♂

I belive you are a good observer, but have't read all the comments.

its a bit weird making comments about young girls weights, even if you didnt mean it. Please don’t use language like that especially for children, its how eating disorders start.

​@@_Tp__ gaining weight as in literally just growing bigger and taller. I dont really see it as weird

@@_Tp__ What about comments about guys height? I don't see you complaining about that now do you? Yeah exactly.

​@bweygw7865 dawg chill it's not a big deal

@@aashishr9918 This is exactly what I see. Whenever people make a comment about a guy being short, no one cares, but as soon as someone makes a comment about a girls weight, people get offended.

She only trains about an hour per day

You did not run a 1.58 800m at 13.

She ran the 600m in 1:38 this summer

wacha uwongo tulikuwa tunakimbia 20mins

yeah - they do her pace just getting to school barefoot - hahahahahaha Kenyans: oh wow, yeah sure, they're so amazing

@@TheMaestromMephisto 20 mins= non Kalenjin. Kalenjin = sub 15 mins

yes, you're the only one 🤡

I just hope that she keeps running long-term and continues through the non-linear process of running that encompasses a lot of adolescent runners

She is not going to make it, running this fast at this age she is more than likely to burn out within the next few years if she keeps going like this.

Jacob Ingebrigtsen runs since he was a kid and he is 1,87m tall. Running probably didn't affect his bone developmemt.

Jacob started at an earlier age and he seems healthy

It's from the race. The course is simultaneously holding a 10k race (2 laps) and a half marathon (4 laps), notice they are passing slower runners the entire time. ..and the results shown were of the women, there were six men who either beat or tied her.

It is due to understanding of physiology and training methods. If you look back to 1950s, how runners trained, it was really ineffective and stupid.

Kids are no more or less fit. Running is more popular. Parkrun means everyone is timed. Fast, flat road races. My personal bug bear is super shoes. No kid should be running in carbon plated Vaporflys.

@@pavolhorvath7850 Nah. These kids aren't training that hard at that age. It's just the fact parkrun is so popular so everyone gets timed.

@@user-ss2cz4be6q I've personally never used any modern super shoes until more recently when I tried it out for a 3 mile tempo run and a 2 mile race, and they weren't vapor or ahplaflys, they were nova blast. Most of the time I use normal non super shoes, and I'm planning to get a pair of barefoot shoes or whatever those are called. I want to strengthen my feet so when I DO use the super shoes I'll have a big advantage and it will help a lot.