ESPN's Colin Cowherd Claims to Have Run a 6:11 Mile

That's right! If you don't run a Mile it's not a Mile. The attitude of it's close enough or he would have done it, isn't good enough. You either do it, or you don't. This is an opportunity for the sport to get on ESPN in a really fun way.

Here are four things we can do:

1) Add a comment to the ESPN Front Row Page. Even if you're comment doesn't get on, they'll still read it:

http://frontrow.espn.go.com/2012/05/run-a-mile-in-colin-cowherds-wet-shoes/comment-page-1/#comment-6949

2) Tweet to those at the track and the naysayers #HERDMILE Here's a couple:

Stephen A. Smith: @stephenasmith

Herman Edwards: @hermedwardsespn

ESPN PR Guy Dave Scott: @ESPNprDScott

Scott Van Pelt: @notthefakeSVP / @SVPshow

3) Call in to The Herd tomorrow morning (10AM - 1PM EST)

Email:

theherd@espnradio.com

Twitter: @ESPN_Colin / @TheHerd

Phone: (888) 729-3772 (SAY-ESPN)

4) Get on other radio shows talking about. It's about having fun and promoting this sport. It's ripe to get thrown back at Colin and have get after a re-do.

wejo wrote:

Here's a thread on here where you all were discussing his chances before hand:

http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=4537035

Interestingly he said he's run 6:11 and that's what he ran.

http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=4537035&page=2#4541810

I may try this tomorrow.

Make sure you video tape it, so we can critique it....;)

I agree, it doesn't look like he's running a 6:11 but possible since videos can make you look slower depending on the angle. To be me, it looked more like a 7:xx something....

Have to agree. That's not 6:11 pace. They staged it to save face. Otherwise they would've posted a video of the entire thing.

Honestly, is there anyone out there that likes Colin Cowherd. He's a total tool. Half the stuff he says the opposite happens the next day. He's go a face made for radio and he's trying to move into TV cause radio is dying.

Colin please get yourself fired soon.

almost half wrote:

Webb Watch '12 wrote:

Haha, Yeah, I like how jackie joyner was giving expert advice on the mile. That really cracked me up. I wonder how many people who saw this actually thought she was a miler...

She did cap off her WR hep with a 2:08 800m. I bet she could have been a fairly useful miler if she had trained for the event.

Yes useful to bring your lunch to the meet. Or wash your socks. She was flat out doing the 800. And that was painful to watch.

And she trained plenty. She was in tremendous physical shape. You don't need anymor ethan she was doing to be a 'useful miler'.

I'm happily oblivious to the fact of this guys existence, let alone any discussion about his mile time. This is what letsrun has come to, the co-founder starting a 3 page thread about whether someone ran a 6 minute mile. Whoo-hoo.

Suggestion: ditch ESPN (better yet, cancel the cable subscription), and do something useful with the time.

i ran a 6:06 1600m when I was 10 years old. I had little tiny short kid legs. Every healthy, non-obese and non-elderly person in the world should be able to break 6:30. It's basically a shuffle pace. I know a 60+ year old who regularly breaks 6.

I don't know about that, in the old freshmen PE mile only a handful of kids broke 6 in my class. We did it every week for a while and only three or 4 kids broke 6 the entire semester (this didn't count kids who were in fall sports). I finally got down to 5:30 and the coach said go try out for the track team. Most people are in better shape at 14 or 15 than they are at 48 and weigh much less. To say the average person should be able to run 6:30 is dead wrong. If he did it then great but I know when I run 6 min. pace at our local track people look at me like I am Usain Bolt.

Was this freshmen PE mile at fat camp?

A 6:30 mile at 48 is only 64% on age-graded calculators, meaning 1/3 people at the age of 48 can break 6:30. Wow, big whoop.

What it looks like he is running is meaningless. When I saw video of me running 5:50 pace in a half marathon I was shocked how slow I looked. I'm 6'2" but have a short stride which makes me look like I'm really running slow.

The real issue is the world wide leader in sports doesn't know how long a mile is. Sure he could have run another 9 meters in a few seconds more to easily meet his goal of 6:30 but he didn't and they shouldn't be calling it the mile challenge.

I texted and tweeted at the show on Monday asking if he was going to run a mile or just 4 laps, but I was ignored!

I believe it. Cowherd has body structure of a runner. No way Mike and Mike are running sub-7 miles though.

Looks a lot closer to 8:00 pace to me.

heyyo wrote:

Was this freshmen PE mile at fat camp?

A 6:30 mile at 48 is only 64% on age-graded calculators, meaning 1/3 people at the age of 48 can break 6:30. Wow, big whoop.

while i am not overly impressed with his 6:11, your understanding of age-grading here is incorrect. you are not being compared to the population of the world; you are being measured against a data-pool comprised of competitive athletes, starting with the world record holder in the particular event. so, unless you think 70 million people on the planet can run a 6:11 mile, he may be in the top 1% of the population, and probably higher when compared to all 48 year olds in the world...

6:11 isnt bad. i started running in 9th grade and ran 6:45 my first mile despite actually being a really good swimmer my whole life. it took me a few months to break 6:00. fast forward 8 years and im knocking on the door of 4:00. if you're not trained for running, a 6:11 is sure nothing to scoff at.

Agree. That MFer was jogging at the beginning, and jogging at the end. He has the credibility of Kip and Dane.

In gym class in HS (17, 18 year old people) we always had to run the mile once a semester. In a class of 30 people, I was always the fastest and tempo ran the mile in 5:10-5:20. Compared to everybody else, I was flying; the second fastest guy was about 6:15. There were only about 2 people every class that I WOULDN'T lap.Its a heck of a lot faster than you think.

heyyo wrote:

Was this freshmen PE mile at fat camp?

A 6:30 mile at 48 is only 64% on age-graded calculators, meaning 1/3 people at the age of 48 can break 6:30. Wow, big whoop.

See Cush's comment and no I don't recall one kid you would have called fat. All active southern california kids in a school of 2,000 students. This was pre-video games too..1977 to be exact. As runner's we take for granted the distances and paces we can run.

wejo wrote:

Good point. Let's add it to the list...

1) No rail on the track or cones.

2) Why the hell did they start in the middle of the straightaway?

3) Illegal pace cart.

1. Who gives a shit.

2. Who gives a shit.

3. Who gives a shit.

This isn't the fucking Olympics. Like him or not, the guy repped.

You cray cray