HS Gym Class Mile

6th grade 1M run on field day, 6:02 didn take the lead until the last 200m. I thought Id win pretty easy, only won by 2 sec.

I'm a Junior High PE teacher and have kept track since I started in 2008. 37 kids have gone sub 6. XC team isn't good, they all go out for other sports.

My 9th grade PE teacher was the junior high track coach. I was a mediocre player on the school tennis team.

In PE class we had "track and field" week and all of us had to do 3 events. I recall not doing very well in the HJ, running about 65 seconds in the 440, and then running 5:07 for the mile. My time was faster than all the runners on the track team.

Afterward both track and tennis coaches pulled me aside to say my future sport should be running. Went out for track as a sophomore and ran my first mile race in 4:31.

Went on to a state title, div-1 scholarship and some modest success in college. All because of that gym class mile.

Wrestling coach was my gym teacher and knew I was a runner. He wanted to get his wrestler in shape and asked me to pace the kid to a sub6. Hit 45 200 like clockwork. The wrestler was done by 800 so I dropped pace from boredom and ran a 532. The Wrestling coach laughed at how I completely looked fine after doing 3:00 and 2:32

If you didn't at least go sub 4:10 you underachieved substantially.

webfoot wrote:

My 9th grade PE teacher was the junior high track coach. I was a mediocre player on the school tennis team.

In PE class we had "track and field" week and all of us had to do 3 events. I recall not doing very well in the HJ, running about 65 seconds in the 440, and then running 5:07 for the mile. My time was faster than all the runners on the track team.

Afterward both track and tennis coaches pulled me aside to say my future sport should be running. Went out for track as a sophomore and ran my first mile race in 4:31.

Went on to a state title, div-1 scholarship and some modest success in college. All because of that gym class mile.

When I was in Jr High in the 70s I was the tiniest one in my 9th grade class and had always been one of the last one's picked for any gym activitie. Our gym teacher initiated a xc run around the fields at our mid Ohio school. Like the original poster we had all these World Series of Baseball players in our gym glass. They were the school heros. We had a one mile run and I did it in around 6:00 and there was no one near me. I didn't know a thing about running and wasn't involved in any school sports. I was actually quite disappointed that there weren't walls to scale and barbed wire to crawl under like the army. Anyways we did this for about a week and I trounced everyone each time. My algebra teacher (Dan Sekerak) was the high school XC coach and finally my sporting career started. We moved the next year, but my new team won the first two state championships for girls in Ohio.

I dropped a triple double playing bball

We ran 4 laps of a a 400m track, starting and finishing at the 100m starting line. I guess my gym class mile was actually a 1600. The last one I remember was a very positive split 530ish (was about a 18 min 3-mile cross runner at the time...i didn't run distance in track).

webfoot wrote:

My 9th grade PE teacher was the junior high track coach. I was a mediocre player on the school tennis team.

In PE class we had "track and field" week and all of us had to do 3 events. I recall not doing very well in the HJ, running about 65 seconds in the 440, and then running 5:07 for the mile. My time was faster than all the runners on the track team.

Afterward both track and tennis coaches pulled me aside to say my future sport should be running. Went out for track as a sophomore and ran my first mile race in 4:31.

Went on to a state title, div-1 scholarship and some modest success in college. All because of that gym class mile.

I had a similar path to running. I was the #1 seed on the tennis team so it wasn't quite as easy to quit for running. Ran a 5:40 in the 7th grade PE mile and ended up running track and playing tennis in 8th grade before moving to running full time in 9th grade. Ended up qualifying for foot locker and setting the state record for the 3200 so it was a good decision.

My senior year I cruised 5:05 in trainers to easily clinch the "fastest PE mile" ranking for the school. When I finished, the teacher asked me if I had PR'ed...

I busted out a 4:34 in my highschool gym mile senior year. Everyone wanted the D after that!

I ran a 4:59.69 with my coach timing me as part of a bet to break 5. The entire class was cheering me on. I need to split a 1:14 last lap to get the time. I ran it just under 5 and got the entire class out of running or pushups (something we did regularly every day) as a result. It was awesome

Ninth grade, first summer HS fb practice I noticed I had gone from being decent sized for my age to fearing for my safety.

Anyway we did a 1.5 mile run as part of our fitness assessment. No idea now what my time was but I won by half a lap+. I had run track in the summer so was in shape.

I actually played that season but switched to xc thereafter.

Al Bundy once scored four touchdowns in a football game.

You guys are just as pathetic.

My sophomore year in High School our soccer coach had us to a run one time around the school grounds for a little competitive training session. He was a new cocky semi pro player that just started coaching us. He let us know that if anyone could beat him he would buy them dinner. We took off and I stayed right with him. He kept speeding up to lose me and we gapped the rest of the team by a huge distance. I was ready to start to pass him and he suddenly stops short of the soccer field on our way back in. I ran right past him and finished where we started in the middle of the field. He couldn't stand to lose, so he decided to make the finish line in some random place.

He never ran with us again, but our cross country coach heard about it and had me run the final district meet for the JV Team, without ever running with the team. I got second in my first and only race of the year with only soccer training.

One of my coworkers claims a 4:10 mile at a gym PE. He says in high school he was 5'5" and weighed 115 pounds and went through the half in 2:00. He was also training for football. If this is true, the cross country coach there was the worst recruiter in the history of the sport. I am betting he ran a 5:10.

Sept, 1972: Gym class mile in 6:30 (soph)

Nov, 1975: 26.2 in 2:49/(6:29/mile)