Fastest gym/PE mile?

Freshmen year I ran 5:30 and the gym teacher told me to go out for track. In our school if you were on an athletic team you didn't have to do PE which was a nice incentive. The track coach yelled at me for not going out for cross country and told me I would be way behind everyone who did. I ended up running 4:57 second fastest freshman on the team which wasn't too bad.

[quote]yellowstickies wrote:

You're such a nerd.

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I know :)

BTW, I'd like to point out I also led my gym class with 19 pullups (palms facing away from you - the hard ones) and was I think second in pushups with 65. (I think I win the award for ultimate nerd now. Or at least gym warrior.)

beer miler wrote:

BTW, I'd like to point out I also led my gym class with 19 pullups (palms facing away from you - the hard ones) and was I think second in pushups with 65. (I think I win the award for ultimate nerd now. Or at least gym warrior.)

More like you need an award for ultimate nerd now, nerd.

5:15 in the seventh grade. I ran it in a collared shirt and cargo pants.

Not p.e., but similar experience: In late August of 1981, as a freshman football player, I ran the 1.5 mile run in 8:01 with full pads and rubber football cletes and a helmet. I nearly went delerious from exhaustion. I layed on the ground as the varsity coach and varsity players yelled at me for collapsing. I was running 25 miles per week prior to the season and doing road races.

As a 8th grade girl I ran 4:35 for 4 laps around the track (1600 meters). I was told later by some track coach that I broke the high school national record or something. But I am also one of the best soccer players in the nation so I've never actually ran a real track race.

I remember Mike Bennett running 4;58 in Reno (Swope Middle School) in the last days of 8th grade.

The course starts on grass and goes around the Swope campus, through dirt, across parking lots, etc. Reno is at 4500' altitude.

I think that Mike Bennett later went on to run very well for Oklahoma State University. He was in the infamous Reno High School class of 1987. I heard of something like a 29;00 10km on the track.....anybody here ever heard of him?

For reference, my first timed mile in the 7th grade on the same course was 9;47......yes, NINE FORTY SEVEN.....and it hurt.

I ran a 6:32 around the grass of the soccer field in 7th grade, which was good for second in my grade. Unfortunately, all of us 7th grade runners got beaten by the soccer star, and I never raced him again.

It was sad, but I got over it eventually.

soccergirl -> liar.

It wasn't a mile, but we had a kid in HS who was a wispy 5'6'' or 5'7'' and had this beautiful long, fluid stride. He didn't run track or x-c but regularly kicked the butts of varsity distance runners in P.E. And his leg speed made us all jealous. In P.E. class one day he turned a 36-sec 330. In tennis shoes. On a cinder track. I think the kid could have been another Seb Coe if he'd had any ambition that way, but he didn't. What he did have, or so it was rumored, was a drug problem. I heard last year that he had died. A sad end to a long sad story. But what talent.

SoupNazi wrote:

soccergirl -> liar.

How about half these people who posted so far -> liar(s).

5th- 6:44 mile in the grass

7th- 2:58 for .6 miles on a side walk weaving in and out of people...2:28 880 pace

8th- 2:41 for .6 miles with same conditions...thats 2:14 880 pace. My PRs in 8th grade at the time were 400-56.9(split), 800- 2:12, 1600- 4:52, 2 miles xc 10:41

1st: 8:25 - popsickle stick run

2nd: 7:41

3rd: 7:00

4th: 5:59

5th: 5:52

6th: 5:17 - started running with brother's HS team

7th: 4:55

8th: 4:46

9th: 4:45 (injured), started to focus on xc skiing

10th: 4:35

11th: 4:26

12th: 4:28 (mono)

Havn't ran a mile race since 12th - focusing on xc skiing.

skier

I think that I ran 5:14 as a sophomore and also broke 8:00 for the 1 1/2 mile run.(Actually only 2400 meters, so about 13 meters short).I also broke the school record for situps in a minute (81).I think that the situps record still stands (20 years later).

that was all in gym class?

Conto wrote:

4:50 in 8th grade? What do you run now? That is fast! I ran 4:28 in high school and my progression was like this...

Freshman year- nt

Sophomore year- 4:57 (didn't run hard... just ran for the win)

Junior year- 4:35

Senior year- 4:28

So you were where I was at my sophomore year after 2 years of running in 8th grade! Damn you have/had talent.

M

I barely believe that the David H, or whatever his name was could run in the 4:30's as a Jr high, non-runner, but when this soccer girl says that she ran 4:35, when professionals from europe, africa, and maybe suzy/regina can run in the 4:20s, I think it is physically impossible.

I think this may be Mr Chest trying to get everybody riled up, or maybe just me riled up.

That damn soccer girl stressed me out!

4:56

i think i ran like 5:30 or something.. took it easy cause we had a meet that day... later that same day i ran 4:29 on cinders.

my teammate had a 9:20 deuce and i believe he broke 5 that day.... but that was about as fast as it got where i am from... though we had a lax could that was really close to breaking 5min...

3.53, oh gym class? 3.57