Tired of all the Covid-19 time trials? David Melly has invented a new event: "How slow can you run a mile?"

is this david happen to be 45 years old or have a 400 p r of 45 sec ondss

If you run backwards your mile time would technically be infinity ;)

But, why?

I think some people in my area could compete in this event. Sometimes I will see someone "running" with the spouse able to walk alongside them. It looks so weird.

kingojamin wrote:

I think some people in my area could compete in this event. Sometimes I will see someone "running" with the spouse able to walk alongside them. It looks so weird.

I've seen this too, a group on the path where some are running and some are walking but they're all go the same speed. Those who are walking aren't even power walking. And you're right, it looks weird every time.

Ask the folks on r/running.

Just another event the Kenyans will dominate. You ever seen them warm-up!?

rojo, you are in pitiful shape. A stroller should only slow a person by about a minute over 5km at race effort.

Jeljo wrote:

Just another event the Kenyans will dominate. You ever seen them warm-up!?

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dthreescrub wrote:

If you run backwards your mile time would technically be infinity ;)

Actually, no distance isn’t negative. Think absolute value. You would still be going a positive number, just in a negative direction.

Not when he's pushing Wejo in the stroller

I have run im place for 30 minutes and covered no ground.

Covid volunteer wrote:

rojo, you are in pitiful shape. A stroller should only slow a person by about a minute over 5km at race effort.

Yeah WTF. When I ran with the stroller I was running close to what I ran without the stroller on easy days, as long as the course was reasonably flat. Is Wejo's easy pace 11-12 minutes per mile these days? Seems hard to believe.

Oops I meant rojo

I can comfortably walk a mile in 20 minutes. I don’t really see how you could “run” much slower than this. Unless you were like doing high knees in place or something.

Finally..Something I can excell at.

Years ago after Hurricane Katrina, my school hosted a 24 hour relay to raise funds for the victims. In the wee hours of the morning, I had an athlete decide to see how slowly he could keep moving for an entire lap. My recollection is that he spent two hours and 15 minutes to cover 400 meters. He also ran a mile around a picnic table at camp. He had a special mental make-up. He was also All-State in the 1600 his Junior and Senior years.

can you describe what the 2:15 looked like? that is such a long time. was he moving in super slo-mo, or taking the tiniest of tiny microsteps, or what?

Do you guys think this should replace race walking as an Olympic sport?

The events are basically the same. You try to see who can win by basically not being caught violating the rules.

In my mind there are only two rules. You must move forward by a miniscule amount on ever step and you must have only one foot on the ground at a time. I wonder if a jumper would end up being the best in the world as basically whoever could jump the highest might win.