When was your last sub 6 mile????????

RE: When was your last sub 6 mile????????

Never!

Boston mile 1-16 :)

age 63, last summer...a one mile road race w/ a big downhill and and equally big uphill at the finish, 5:45. Flat race would be much harder. There were about 10 people in the race. They were going to have a lead car and I recruited a bicycle rider who was chatting it up w the race director instead. Thank you, unknown bicycle rider!

great post.... At some point we all lose the ability to break 5,6,7,8,9, or even a 10 minute mile.

It happens quicker than most of the college and post college guys think it will.

I moved to the town I live in about 15 years ago and have seen guys who were running mid-14 for the 5k in college now who probably would struggle to break 18 and a few who might not be able to break 20.

I don't think this is rare.

If I search through Facebook of my high school running teammates I would bet only 5 of the 50'guys I can think of could break 6 minutes for 1 mile.

Some of the fastest guys I ever knew are now the slowest. Life in the extremes. Most of the guys I know that still run quickly were never actually uber fast.

Saturday, March 30th, 2016: 4:44 mile and then a 5:15 and 5:43 in the 3200 (bad race). I only raced the 800 and 4x4 last weekend but hope to go sub-4:40 today.

Older not faster wrote:

great post.... At some point we all lose the ability to break 5,6,7,8,9, or even a 10 minute mile.

It happens quicker than most of the college and post college guys think it will.

I moved to the town I live in about 15 years ago and have seen guys who were running mid-14 for the 5k in college now who probably would struggle to break 18 and a few who might not be able to break 20.

I don't think this is rare.

If I search through Facebook of my high school running teammates I would bet only 5 of the 50'guys I can think of could break 6 minutes for 1 mile.

Some of the fastest guys I ever knew are now the slowest. Life in the extremes. Most of the guys I know that still run quickly were never actually uber fast.

Interesting comments here, especially in regard to the guys that were not uber fast.

It's amazing how quick it goes if you don't keep it up. I ran 4:02 for the mile around four years ago (my last competitive season). Every now and then I jump on a treadmill to make sure I can still break 20 for 5k and it gets harder every time. 19:52 had me hands on knees recently.

The last mile of my shake out run at lunch just now.

Keep it on the crete wrote:

This morning.

Jk hahaha I'm a 13 y.o. girl and my mile PR is 6:08

Wow you're gonna be a machine when you get older.

It was at the end of a 5 mile run at my health club in 2011 when I was 54.

Getting fat 132 wrote:

It's amazing how quick it goes if you don't keep it up. I ran 4:02 for the mile around four years ago (my last competitive season). Every now and then I jump on a treadmill to make sure I can still break 20 for 5k and it gets harder every time. 19:52 had me hands on knees recently.

Yes, fitness seems to fade quickly...

Yet someone posted here about a person that can run 2:22 on only three months of training.

Last Fall. For the past 6-7 years, once a week I do a 4 mile build, something like. 7:30, 6:50, 6:20, then all out 5:50ish. I take the winter months off and start running again in the spring. It usually takes most of the spring to get to sub 6 min pace. Then come summer I'm golden. I'm 46 and don't race anymore. I just enjoy the recreation and fitness of running

FYI, I have ran only one marathon. 2:37:06.....5:59 pace.

the real ChuckD wrote:

Last Fall. For the past 6-7 years, once a week I do a 4 mile build, something like. 7:30, 6:50, 6:20, then all out 5:50ish. I take the winter months off and start running again in the spring. It usually takes most of the spring to get to sub 6 min pace. Then come summer I'm golden. I'm 46 and don't race anymore. I just enjoy the recreation and fitness of running

FYI, I have ran only one marathon. 2:37:06.....5:59 pace.

It sounds as if you still have something left. You should compete. There is noting wrong with being an "age grouper." For all but the very best, that is all there is left when you are 40+.

Thanks, you're right. Your words are kind and made me feel good. Four years ago I spent the entire spring and summer training to run a fast mile. The goal was sub 5 minutes, I ended up with a 5:07. Not in a race, but in a solo time trial. This is all I needed. The training got my juices going and I've been good ever since. Maybe this year I'll do something similar. The thought of showing up to the local road race isn't appealing to me.

1990 or 1991, in a workout on the track at Montclair State College in NJ. Ugh.

At 33 years old I weight 178 pounds have CAD with a stent in my LAD I am on numerous medications and blood thinners and am still fortunate enough to be able to run a sub 6:00 mile last timed was 5:28 a few months back. This is far off my PR of 4:04.

Weekend before last I did a tempo workout where I did a 1.5 mile stretch in 8:50 (5:54 pace) and the next day I dropped the last mile of a 12 mile run in 5:40 (albeit downhill).

Yesterday, during an 11-mile run. Not a workout.

Three weeks ago. Have been struggling with a niggle, so haven't done a workout since then.