Is it El G's 3:43.13? Can his record be broken?
Is it El G's 3:43.13? Can his record be broken?
Of course. All he had to do was lean a bit more.
Are we talking with PEDs? 3:40 can definitely be cracked. Clean? Someone might be able to break 3:50, but barely.
Statistical analysis says 3:39.6
http://gravityandlevity.wordpress.com/2009/04/22/the-fastest-possible-mile/
You can't set the bar before you know exactly where it should be. You'd just be holding yourself back.
There was one time when sub 4 was deemed "impossible".
ReallySlow wrote:
You can't set the bar before you know exactly where it should be. You'd just be holding yourself back.
There was one time when sub 4 was deemed "impossible".
Yeah but there has to be a line drawn at some point. that article had a good example, that no one will ever run as fast as Usain Bolt's 100m WR 16 times in a row. therefore it has to be slower than 2 minutes, 36 seconds.
You could even take Rudisha's 800m pace and move that line to 3:23. It makes 3:39 sound very reasonable to me.
With blade legs? 2 minutes flat!
El G's mile world record is now over 15 years old, by far the longest anyone has ever held the mile world record. I don't anyone breaking it any time soon.
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Ryun 3:41
Not now... wrote:
El G's mile world record is now over 15 years old, by far the longest anyone has ever held the mile world record. I don't anyone breaking it any time soon.
Not to mention, with the exception of Ngeny, no one has ever been close in those 15 years.
1/186,000th of a second
I would say 3:38 is the limit. Anything faster than this requires the shit they gave Steve Rogers to become Captain America.
Nobody can say because there is no limit on how much of a genetic freak someone can be. A specimen could emerge with some genetic mutation of his muscle proteins that gives him a superior energy system.
I reckon a freaky american basketball player type will take up running and run a sub 3 mile.
When you are 3ft taller than your opponents you really only have to work on getting your 20ft stride going.
On the flip side, I don't see any midget breaking the 5min mile barrier anytime soon.
Not now... wrote:
El G's mile world record is now over 15 years old, by far the longest anyone has ever held the mile world record.
Not even close. Walter George held the record for over 30 years. And if you think that's cause nobody was any good then, the man who finally broke it was Nurmi.
The reason it lasted so long was that in George's era, track was professional, and after 1896 it was forced into amateur status by the olympics.
Similarly there was plenty of interest in mile record-chasing in the 90's, but nobody cares anymore. There is still plenty of 1500 record-chasing, 3:27's and 3:28's, equivalent to 3:45's and 3:46's. If there ever is more interest in the mile, which hopefully there won't be, 3:43 will be broken eventually. 3:26.00 is stronger.
I personally believe that 3:45 is the limit for a man without PEDs. I also believe Jim Ryun could have run that fast if he were a runner in his prime today.
After all, he managed 3:51 on a dirt track with no rabbits, and was by himself for most of the way.
Also, fun fact for you guys: Roger Bannister himself once said he believes humans are capable of a 3:30 mile. They thought he was crazy. Whether he said this before or after he broke 4, I'm not sure. I'm also not sure if he still believes this.
The human limit is a paradox. There has to be a limit but if someone runs a time that is considered to be the limit. What's to say another runner can't run a hundredth of a second faster.
Marijuologist wrote:
Nobody can say because there is no limit on how much of a genetic freak someone can be. A specimen could emerge with some genetic mutation of his muscle proteins that gives him a superior energy system.
Correct answer here. You never know where human evolution could take us.
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