What's the fastest mile ever run by someone in med school?

Dan Lincoln set the American record in the steeple 8:08 while in Med School. No idea if he ran a mile that year. 3:37 1500, 8:13 two mile

Dan the lincoln wrote:

Dan Lincoln set the American record in the steeple 8:08 while in Med School. No idea if he ran a mile that year. 3:37 1500, 8:13 two mile

Howz about Duncan MacDonald, ex-Stanford, and one-time 5k ' record setter (US) in the mid-70s? Anaesthesologist in Hawaii, I think.

Gramps wrote:

Dan the lincoln wrote:

Dan Lincoln set the American record in the steeple 8:08 while in Med School. No idea if he ran a mile that year. 3:37 1500, 8:13 two mile

Howz about Duncan MacDonald, ex-Stanford, and one-time 5k ' record setter (US) in the mid-70s? Anaesthesologist in Hawaii, I think.

Do witch doctors from Africa count?

I realize you're probably trolling, but way more people are trying to become doctors than become sub-4 milers...it is

more financially rewarding, obviously

I agree with you that getting into/completing a mediocre med school or residency is not a big deal compared

to running a sub-4 min mile...it's more like a 6 min mile. However, getting into Harvard, completing a competitive neurosurgery residency etc is no small feat either

there was a thread about this a while back comparing marathon times to medical schools:

http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=8747121

As far as the original question, is there anyone who has run a mile faster than Bannister while actually in med school?

Miles Batty ran 3:52 before med school. Martin Hehir ran 3:59, but also before med school

Not really impressed wrote:

Med school is not impressive..i breezed through it and it was way easier than real life. Its easier to become a doctor than to run a sub 4 min mile i got assure you that. I wanna know fastest mile by someone that works on an offshore oil rig 16 hours a day.

With such poor writing, please tell me that you're not a physician.

Mark Vincent Sivieri, ran 3:40 1500m while at med school at Georgetown. He ran sub 4 as an undergrad and was within a few tenths of his PR his first year in med school, but he couldn't balance it and stopped competing after the first year.

Curtis Robb, who reached the 1992 Olympic 800 final as a 20 year old at Med school, only ran several 1500m races and never the mile, but he ran under 3:40 in each of them.

Chuck Aragon?

Aragon ('81) earned All-American honors as a senior and still holds Notre Dame's all-time record in the 1,500 meters as well as the fourth-best time in the mile. He also attained his goal of earning admission to medical school, and was awarded his degree from the University of New Mexico School of Medicine in 1987. Aragon was able to adjust his trajectory through medical school to allow him to continue to run competitively, missing a berth in the 1984 Olympics in the 1,500 meters by just five-hundredths of a second at the U.S. Olympic Trials.

I thought of Chuck because we're the same age and were on a couple of teams together -- the US vs USSR Junior Meets in Donyetsk in July 1978, and the IAAF Outdoor in Rome 1987.

I would have guessed Thomas Wessinghage, who consistently ran mile races in the low 3:50s from his early twenties into his thirties, when he finally went sub-3;50.

I have no one new to add to the American names that have been mentioned.