What do you consider a fast 5K time?

I've done it in 29 or so minutes.. was awesome for me... not a runner by the way.

Depends on age, but I will say 22:00 is a decent time. I quit running 17 years ago when I left the Corp. If you ran over 20 there you were considered slow.

If you are running sub 23 at 37-40 I would say you are rocking it.

5k race or 5k during a run? There's a big difference.

I'd be lucky at sub 1hr

sub 20's

if I'm just running for running a 23mins is good

if I want to push it 21mins is the standard I shoot for

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This is the correct answer. Wait on responses around here and you will see some olympic qualifying times as average.

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frick that. Just finishing is fast to me and anything under an hour is blazing imo. Of course I despise long distance running and thinks its the devil.

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What do you consider a fast 5K time?

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for your average weekend warrior? sub 21

for an ex college runner or someone like that? sub 18

22 minutes is a good 5k time and definitely puts you in the top half of the pack in your typical 5k town race, but that isn't exactly what I would consider "fast", just above average

he asked for "fast" not average or even above average

go to a big 5k race in any city and >21 minutes isn't going to put you in the top 10% or 15% of runners

the big 5k race in Shreveport, if you don't run sub 20:30ish, you are not getting in the top 100 of male runners

ask me how I know

I think depending on age anything under 23 for a weekend warrior/in-shape person who runs twice a week is fine.

It really depends on your training and what your body can do. With very few exceptions to run sub 20 you need to be doing at 15-20 miles a week and probably some track work as well. As a former runner in my 20s I could run sub 20 pretty much on muscle memory with no training, in my 30s I actually had to put in work to run that fast, and now in my 40s if I wanted to try to run sub 20 again I would have to get on a strict training routine that would probably hurt!