What's the fastest mile you've ever run?

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Trey22

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Originally posted by: FallenHero
Originally posted by: Safeway
I got 3:37 my senior year on the Cross Country team.

shens


Leave him alone, he's dyslexic (7:33).

Oh, and my fastest mile was as a sophomore, 2 seconds under 5 minutes.
 

User1001

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Originally posted by: jumpr
Originally posted by: Safeway
Say shens all you want - but we had a kick ass CC team.
Hicham El Gerrouj has the current 1 mile world record, and it's 3:43. You did not run a 3:37.

I think the world record is actually 3:27
 

Vanman

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Originally posted by: Safeway
I got 3:37 my senior year on the Cross Country team.

Hehe....for some reason I doubt that seeing how the world record for 1 mile is 3:43.13
 

Xyclone

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8:24 last year. I think I can do it in <6 now, since I've been training my running/leg muscles, etc.
 

sparkyclarky

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Originally posted by: sparkyclarky
Originally posted by: Safeway
I got 3:37 my senior year on the Cross Country team.

You're full of it and this link says so.

http://www.infoplease.com/ipsa/A0112924.html

edit: looks like I was beaten to the punch by eleventy billion people

double edit: My fastest mile was either a 5:27 or a 5:29 my sophomore year in HS - that was just a middling pace, but I stopped running track after that year so I dunno if I could have beaten it (perhaps not, as my top CC score was set in that year IIRC).

triple edit: I officially forgot how to use the damn edit button so somehow I quoted instead of editing....
 

ShowdOWN

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does running on the treadmill and running on a track compare? i got around 13 min last week but that was on a 25 degree incline.
 

GasX

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Originally posted by: loki8481
Originally posted by: 91TTZ
Originally posted by: loki8481


seriously, wtf is with these assumptions.

school activities = yearbook, newspaper, lit magazine, stage crew, peer-advisor stuff, and a few other random clubs.

community activities = church youth group, and volunteering at soup kitchens and food banks on the weekends.

That's just as bad. Yearbook? Newspaper? Lit magine? Stage Crew?

Seriously, that's AV crew land. I think Stage Crew might even be the AV crew in your school.

stage crew was awsome :p it was one of the only places within the confines of the school to interact with females under the age of 40, since our theater department was joined with our sister school's (male/female actors, and male/female stage crew members). it was the only after-school activity that wasn't a sausage fest :D
Did you see that new grip on the stage crew? He's just dreamy... :heart:

Join the stage crew and meet girls.... Was that on the recruiting posters?
 

GasX

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Originally posted by: Homerboy
Somewhere around 4:45... but the mile sucked. Real men run the 400 & 800 :)

Those were my events. I would hazard a guess that at 28 I could beat anyone here at 5 400's as long as there were 15 seconds recovery time between them and we only timed the last one. I was training heavily for rugby at that time and was the king of fast recovery between sprints. At 36, I probably have lost a few steps...
 

lightweight

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I think the best mile I ever did was 8:00. This would have been very recently. 8:00 doesn't sound so impressive to people running 5 minute miles, but back in high school I was barely able to run 1 lap without falling over.
 

iwantanewcomputer

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Originally posted by: ShowdOWN
does running on the treadmill and running on a track compare? i got around 13 min last week but that was on a 25 degree incline.

no tradmills are much slower for any decent runner. the speed they give you is just for how fast the belt is moving. it assumes that you don't leave the ground when running. also it's not a fast surface to run on like a track is
 

SWScorch

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Originally posted by: lightweight
I think the best mile I ever did was 8:00. This would have been very recently. 8:00 doesn't sound so impressive to people running 5 minute miles, but back in high school I was barely able to run 1 lap without falling over.

Nonsense, good sir, 8 minutes is a very good time. Sure, it might not look like much next to a 5 minute mile, but compared to a 3:50 mile, 5 minutes is slow too :p
 

Burn2619

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Originally posted by: Safeway
I got 3:37 my senior year on the Cross Country team.


Well My fastest mile is around 5.54 to 6.30 and can still do the low 6's to this day. As for you running 3.337 your full of it unless your in the GBWW because Hicham El Guerrouj of Morocco holds the fastest mile at 3.43.13 set in rome, as well as the fastest indoor mile at 3.48.45 in belgium. I ran CC for 5 years and a CC runner is built for stamina not speed. CC runners are also larger fram on average compaired to spirnters and SD runners and thats where we get the stamina from. Go peddle your lies somewhere else :)