At my college there is a tradition that the men’s basketball team run a mile on the track at midnight on the first official day of practice. There usually are three or four of them who break 5 minutes.
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We had a running back break 5 two years ago as a sophomore. He came out for track last year and ran 51 in the 400. He bulked up a lot this football season so I expect more 100/200 this year.
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I have seen a sub 4:50 9th grade gym class mile performed by probably a top level world class talent who was later on destroyed by a stupid run em into the ground style college program run by a certain former Olympian.
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hdnebs wrote:
I have seen a sub 4:50 9th grade gym class mile performed by probably a top level world class talent who was later on destroyed by a stupid run em into the ground style college program run by a certain former Olympian.
Off of no training at all btw
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hdnebs wrote:
hdnebs wrote:
I have seen a sub 4:50 9th grade gym class mile performed by probably a top level world class talent who was later on destroyed by a stupid run em into the ground style college program run by a certain former Olympian.
Off of no training at all btw
I ran a 5 flat mile in pe 9th grade. Coach tried to get me to run track. I finally did my jr yr, ended up state champ, d1 full ride, etc. Never knew I was that fast till pe run.
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flyingfrog wrote:
hdnebs wrote:
Off of no training at all btw
I ran a 5 flat mile in pe 9th grade. Coach tried to get me to run track. I finally did my jr yr, ended up state champ, d1 full ride, etc. Never knew I was that fast till pe run.
Off of no traing at all. Funny thing is the track coach put me in the 800 and 400 so I never ran a timed mile again.
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For those that remember the Presidential Physical Fitness test, there was a 12 minute track run. for non-runners in High School it was pretty good to go over 7 laps (6:45 miles), hardly anyone hit 8 laps (6:00 miles) unless they had some running. Maybe once I heard someone from XC team that hit 9 laps (5:20 miles).
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I broke 5 within a week or two of joining track off of wrestling training. Wrestling training was intense, but I have no demonstrated running talent before or since.
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This guy was on the baseball team until his junior year in high school. Then he ran 4:30 1500m in his gym class, and was recruited by the track team. He went on to make the World Championship in 10000m (10th place in 1995) and 5th place in world half (1996).
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coahc wrote:
In Australia we don't run the mile but we have school athletics carnivals in which the whole school goes to the track and without any training other than a 3 week athletics unit. One of my students in 2006 ran around 4:35 for 1500m without training. He also won the 100m.
A few months later took him to a talent ID session for cycling. He won the green Jersey of the Tour de France in 2017. Have a nice signed jersey by him on my wall.
Talent is absolutely everywhere!
Michael Matthews. That's a great story.
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We had a couple soccer players do it when I was in high school. They both came out to a couple XC meets and ran about 17:00 too. We had a national caliber soccer program when I was there, I wouldn’t be surprised if it turns out they were running 20-25 mpw year round with half of it being short-rest sprinting.
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dragged through the garden wrote:
If they do, they are recruited for track/XC.
Yeah, there’s often a random boy who can run under 5 (or close) or a girl under 6. The coach is psyched because natural talent is hard to beat.
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We had to do 60s runs in grade 9. Only one guy got 400m. He was on XC team with me. I beat him one race, bit otherwise he had my number each time.
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I ran 5:23 in my gym class cross country mile which had a pretty big hill on it but I'm doubtful that was an actual mile. This was before I was a runner. Another guy in my school, in a different class period, who was 'the runner' ran the same time. I ended up starting track that year (9th) but ran the 800 because you couldn't do both the mile and 800. Our 9th grade was in the middle school ('junior high') and we did almost no training. I ran 5:10 in the summer in my first mile, and my teammate ran 5:03 but had been running for a couple years. This was the beginning of my running journey. A couple years later we were both a minute faster. I stalled at 4:23 and never improved after HS and my teammate got to 4:06 just after college.
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Its probably pretty common to see soccer players break 5, yeah.
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In 9th grade I was a good but not-great tennis player on the junior high team. In gym class I ran a 5:07 mile, faster than all the runners on the track team. In 10th grade I quit tennis and took up track.
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Jim the Janitor wrote:
At my college there is a tradition that the men’s basketball team run a mile on the track at midnight on the first official day of practice. There usually are three or four of them who break 5 minutes.
4 laps? or do they actually line up for mile?
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Michael Matthews.
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Tommy Flanagan wrote:
I broke 4 at 190 pounds and basketball shorts that went down to my ankles.
Me too. One lap around the track is a mile, right?
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