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

Yep, you're faster than Colin. Congrats big man. Since you're in the mood to measure dicks, how would your W2 last year stack up to his? Ridiculous comparison? Yes. Almost as ridiculous as judging somebody by how fast they run a mile.

Ok, so i just watched it and totally think it is not legit. Sure he kind of looked a bit slow but that not why i know something is off about it. The clock had him at 3:03 crossing 800 at the middle of the strait-away. Then it cuts to a different camera and he's at 3:06 but entering the crest of the turn. That would be about 100 to 150 meeter in 6 seconds.

sorry...that would be 100 to 150 meters in 3 seconds

My dad and I timed him for what we could best approximate to be 50m, and that was 20 seconds, which is over 10 min/mile.

Lighten up Francis wrote:

Yep, you're faster than Colin. Congrats big man. Since you're in the mood to measure dicks, how would your W2 last year stack up to his? Ridiculous comparison? Yes. Almost as ridiculous as judging somebody by how fast they run a mile.

What is it about me being a middle school girl that you did not understand?

If the camera can hold on him for 45-46 seconds than you can determine if he's covered half a lap or 200 meters.

If not and you can only view him continously through

a 100 meter corner or 100 meter straightaway and he can do that in 23 seconds than yes, he has a chance to do something like a 6:11 per mile pace, but how slow and ragged does he look in the first 100 meters and the last 100 meters?

Cutting away or switching cameras is just a bad Hollywood trick.

Some real athlete (maybe someone young and famous) should call him out and "jog" with him for one 90 second lap and see how well or how badly he does and listen to see if he is huffing and puffing and wiped out with just a quarter mile test run.

If he WAS making fun of the ESPN guy for being slower than him, then your rebuttal would be somewhat understood. However, its not the fact that colin is slow, its the fact that he's putting on a big media circus for a rather pedestrian achievement. I don't tell everybody how "fast" I am because I do long runs at longer than half marathon distance faster than the average in shape guy runs a mile all out. In fact, I think its best to NOT brag about your athletic achievements but let the results speak for themselves. This ESPN guy is making too big of a deal about it, me thinks.

Lighten up Francis wrote:

Yep, you're faster than Colin. Congrats big man. Since you're in the mood to measure dicks, how would your W2 last year stack up to his? Ridiculous comparison? Yes. Almost as ridiculous as judging somebody by how fast they run a mile.

I understand he wasn't specifically saying he was faster than Colin. He took a lower road of saying Colin was slower than many MS girls. Colin didn't come here bragging about his 6:11 mile. Because he's a national personality, his bet took on a life of its own. He and his buddies are on TV every day and a lot of people watch them, like it or not. What if Lebron James made a bet with his buddies about how fast he could run a mile and the media got ahold of it? It would be the biggest track and field event in history.

My only point is people here need to get over the jealousy and drop the chip on their shoulder. My God, it's a bet between friends that received some attention, get over it. Anywhere in the world but here it's a fairly impressive accomplishment. He doesn't dedicate his life to running, so I understand the reception he'll receive here. The site's reputation is deserved if nothing else.

chinocochio wrote:

I don't tell everybody how "fast" I am because I do long runs at longer than half marathon distance faster than the average in shape guy runs a mile all out.

Go to the mirror, boy!

If this guy took it serious and did some specific work and had any type of a running background I could believe he could run that time. It had to hurt though. Most people don't want to hurt that long for a slow time. Thats why I quit racing by the time I was 37.

My mother who didn't start running until she was about 36 and was running 23 minute 5ks and 48 minute 10ks had a thing called the corporate cup where she worked and ran a 5:40 at age 40. She took it serious and did the workouts I gave her and with her work schedule she could only run about 4-5 times a week. 200s at 40-45 one day and quarters at 86-95 for about 6 weeks. Full recoveries. She was about 108 pounds then though. And ran her distance runs of 3-6 miles at 8:00 pace.

I had a 100 dollar bet with my cousin once when we were both 24 years old that he couldn't break 7:00 for a mile. He was a typical 6 foot 190 pound guy that because he played a lot of basketball thought that it would be easy to run a shitty high school time. He lasted about a month before he welched on the bet after running miles on the indoor track trying to get under 8:00 was just too painful.

Never paid me and its been 21 years.

Here are my issues:

He was hyping this up on his radio broadcast and even got flo-jo's advice on how to run it...for a sports guy, that demonstrates little knowledge of the sport (though am sure he is comfortable in not knowing who Bernard Lagat is). It was somewhat humorous to hear Flo-jo's response, as if she was trying to think "why in the world is he asking ME about the mile" as she fumbles through a response.

Secondly, he advertises himself with shots of weight lifting and general physical fitness, 6:11 is better than 7:11, but the fact that this counts for a good time in our society is a bit sad...so much for Born to Run right?

Thirdly, the validity of the accomplishment seems highly suspect. I wasn't there, but in my wildest dreams I can imagine a world where this was done as a publicity stunt and may have required some fudging (I coach MS and HS runners and I am used to seeing 6:11 pace...don't know if I saw it in the clips).

I have MS runners who come into my program not being able to put 2 steps in front of each other without tripping and they bust themselves for months at a time to run a 6:03. Where is their thread? I enjoy listening to Colin Coward, not his PRs. Can we just get back to listening to him tell us how awesome Tom Brady is (highlight of the show).

This is the most pathetic thread I've ever seen on Letsrun and that's some achievement.

I feel like I'm in the Truman Show and this has been set up as a joke.

I thought Flo-Jo was dead. He did look slow, but I'd be shocked if they lied about the time. Everybody there was hoping he'd flop so they could ride him about it forever. No way they were going to get in on a conspiracy making him successful.

I'm just glad he did it because it got me to do a time trial too which is something I never would have done otherwise.

6:11 doesn't look slow, it is slow. 5:11 would have impressed me, but 6:11 converts to, what, 22 minutes for 5k? He looks young and healthy, so that really should not be a problem.

I watched the 7 seconds or so of him running and it looks like 8 minute pace. 6:11 isn't that fast (9.8mph?) but I'm pretty sure he wasn't going that pace. Anybody else think this? If not, how fast was he going?

i must be a 4 minute miler if thats a 6:15...

611? Wasn't that Cowherd's SAT score? FYI he would have been 10th in the Palos Verdes middle school girls 1600 race Thursday.

Good lord, a 6:11 MILE? That is fast! :) I can't imagine that kind of leg speed. I heard the World Record is about a minute faster, unfathomable! I ran a 7:40 all out mile recently,and I thought that was pretty fast; although I'm more of a half marathoner with a PR of 2:02.

I wish the video of this were still available. Colin is a straight shooter.