Usain Bolt could run sub 5 min mile

sprinters rule wrote:

Because this is Letsrun where 3/4 of the people are dumb and stubborn. We are aware of junior high children who can show up in gym class and break 5 minutes but people don't believe that the fastest man in the world can do it. Great Oak high school has 50 kids who can do it but the fastest man in the world can't. And we have 100 high school girls who can do it but the fastest man in the world can't do it.

At his peak, I can see him going 4:40 if he was in a race and not as a joke. Maybe a million dollar prize, break 4:35.

LateRunnerPhil wrote:

Boris Yelstin wrote:

I don't buy the "fast twitch" theory. Bolt legs wouldn't explode for a mile, lets be serious. He would just need to work aerobically to reach the goal.

Biopsy his legs. Or these of a cheetah. Bolt is useful for one thing, that's SPEED. He probably can run a sub 5 mile, but that's because the standard is very low and he is an incredible athlete. Compare him to other fast-twitch people.

Wrestlers, football players, basketball players (excluding skinny guards). Can they run a sub 5 mile? Most of them, won't. Sure, outliers are everywhere.

First, Bolt is a human like you and me, not another specy. He is just extremely talented for running and trained for sprints. I would say that even a cheatah could jog to a 5 mile pace for a mile, for a quadrupede, it's pedestrian.

And finally you are even admitting that Bolt can run a 5 minute mile, which was the only question of the thread. Nobody talked about sub 4.