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Hey guys, my friend finished uploading the downhill mile onto http://video.google.com/ so if you search for "Miracle Mile" it should come up. I guess he called it that because it's the only way I would ever run a 3:46 on a real track. I wanted to edit it better and add some warming-up footage but I won't have time, so the godfather just did it himself. Maybe during the break I'll put up the better version, but knowing everybody's attention span (including my own) I'm sure no one will care by that point. Oh and the 1600m time trial is also on google videos as well and it loads a LOT better than the previous link I put up. For that one just search "Fat 1600m". Thanks for all the help, and I'll let you all know when I attempt the real mile on the track. - David *Warning* - There is a lot of drunken cursing on the downhill mile video, so if you're sensitive to that kinda stuff then I suggest you mute it. |
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I would have run that but I'm going home to L.A. for the holidays. And plus I didn't hear about it until you just told me about it. And also, I'm not claiming to be a sub-4 minute miler. I don't care about the legitimacy of it. I don't care if the course I ran was 100 yds short or a 100yds long. I was just trying to have fun, and share it with everybody else. |
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Not ragging on you, I just kept reading through the thread, and once you were outed as a Bay Area guy I kept waiting to see a post suggesting the GGPark race. I see it as a tradeoff, the race would give it some legitimacy since it is a certified course, but your attempt was more of an adventure. Glad it worked out. |
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Props man. |
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I would have gone down centennial... |
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Yeah you could have run sub-3 going down Centennial. |
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If he survived it... I was thinking Marin, myself... |
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Anyone else think mplatt is a dickweed? |
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Yes |
| Campus_Loop |
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Thanks for the videos. There is nothing like proof to shut up the detracters. |
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That you had to inquire is quite a compliment. |
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Coolest running video ever! |
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That is a wonderful, terrific, and fantastic video. If you don't like it, you have no business visiting this site and probably shouldn't even be running. Good job, Big Wave! |
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Well done... the guys in my office were rooting for you when this first came up... we loved the video. |
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You definately accomplished both. Thanks for sharing it with us!!! The pre-race hype, post-race report, and video are simply the best thing I've read about on here in a long time. |
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This is one of the best threads ever. Very Cool, DT. |
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Nice job. But wtf is "I did it for the muffins"? |
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I was just trying to have fun, and share it with everybody else. Can't believe how many mean-spirited losers inhabit this board. Looks like you had a blast. My running friends and I really liked the video-- it's really tacky, but that gives it a sort of bootleg charm. Reality TV meets once a runner or something like that. I'm putting it on my short list of motivational material for my upcoming indoor track races. |
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Easily the best horrible video I've seen in a long time. The Rocky theme helps as does the occasional vulgarity. Nice job. |
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Fun stuff. I am amazed on the wet blankets out there that were putting a damper on some good clean honest fun. Geeez-of-peete. It's not like the guy was claiming to be Roger Bannister or anything. In fact, he was kinda humble about the whole thing I thought, and if I'm not mistaken, all he was originally asking about is measuring it so he could legitimize the bet. Anyway, a couple thougts about this: 1) I wonder if in a couple weeks or whatever when he is recovered completely, if he went and did the same thing in the reverse direction, what the results would be. Granted, it wouldn't be as fun or motivating, so he wouldn't have the same adrenaline rush and probbaly wouldn't have the same support, etc... But I wonder how far under he got would compare to how far over he'd be (from what he would do on the flat). Example: If he is 4:04 shape and he ran 3:46, would he run 4:22 in the other direction? Gut feel is he would be much slower than that. ??? 2) I also wonder how much of this is mental. Granted, the downhill/gravity pull will make him run faster of course, but I also wonder if the same thing was set up and he was duped into thinking it was downhill when it actually was flat, if he believed in his mind that he was supposed to run faster than 4min, if that alone would make him run faster than he previously had done. Like it's true of anyone that breaks a barrier, where it seems they have a lot less trouble doing it after that first time. Maybe they are not that much better physically, but just that they believe they are "supposed" to. ??? |