Tuesday, August 30, 2005

Geezerjock performance standards

The Summer National Senior Games will be held in June and July of 2007 in Louisville, Kentucky. I turn 50 on June 23rd of that year, when the Games are underway, so I may not qualify until the following games (possibly depending on which state I qualify in).

That technicality aside, I've got a little less than two years to train to meet the qualifying standards for 50-year-old women. Let's take a look at the standards in place in 2005 for some selected events:


Track & Field/Running:
100m: 17.40
200m: 35.70
400m: 1:30.70
800m: 3:31.50
1500m: 7:00.00
5K road race: 25:08 (2005 winner: 21:07)
10K road race: 55:00 (2005 winner: 47:03)

Swimming:
50 yd freestyle: 38.20
100 yd freestyle: 1:30.10
200 yd freestyle: 2:46.10
500 yd freestyle: 8:53.40
50 yd breaststroke: 49.50
100 yd breaststroke: 1:54.60
200 yd breaststroke: 4:03.50

They also have cycling competitions (5k, 10k, 20k, and 40k) and a sprint triathlon (400m swim, 20k bike, 5k run) that don't appear to have published performance standards. Here are the 50-54 year old female division winner's times:

5k cycle: 8:13.1
10k cycle: 18:20.8
20k cycle: 36:06.9
40k cycle: 1:13:10.8
Sprint tri: 1:06:51

I'm a long way from any of those times. I guess I have my work cut out for me, eh? It's nice to have benchmarks to shoot for, though!

4 comments:

tri-mama said...

go for it! that looks like fun.

UltraMamaC said...

Dang, Nancy, I'd have to cut 4 minutes off my 5K time to qualify! And I'm 15 years from that age. Yikes.

You have this awesome thing about setting and meeting goals, though, so I have no doubts you can do it!!

Nancy Toby said...

You can also qualify by placing in your state games, usually, but that will probably be equally hard in Texas!! Fortunately I can probably participate in both Virginia and Maryland since we have property in both places. :-)

Dr. Iron TriFeist :) said...

They kick my but and I'm 32. Sad. Just one more reason to wake up tomorrow.