Is it possible to run a sub 6 minute mile with only easy runs only?

Yes

The real question is could only a young and healthy male, only break 6 with only easy runs only ?

jerschwab wrote:

Yes

Then how come I couldn't do it?

david45 wrote:

If someone is a young and healthy male, could they break 6 with only easy runs?

Seriously David????

As has been made pretty clear in responses from prior threads you've started, it's possible for many to do that with no runs at all. You continuously use this pattern of starting threads to complain that you haven't been blessed with any talent.

You are either doing some kind of weird troll thing pretending to be a naive untalented moran to see what reactions you'll get or you've got some serious psychological issues. Either way, you should seek professional psychological help if you have not yet done so.

David... most people can break six on solid easy mileage, but what you do is hardly considered mileage.

I, much like you have very little running talent, but you constantly try to blame your lack of work ethic on lack of talent. Sure, maybe youll never be an Olympian or even a college runner no matter how hard and well you train, but anyone with an able body can train for a sub 6 mile.

Grassrunner wrote:

david45 wrote:

If someone is a young and healthy male, could they break 6 with only easy runs?

Seriously David????

As has been made pretty clear in responses from prior threads you've started, it's possible for many to do that with no runs at all. You continuously use this pattern of starting threads to complain that you haven't been blessed with any talent.

You are either doing some kind of weird troll thing pretending to be a naive untalented moran to see what reactions you'll get or you've got some serious psychological issues. Either way, you should seek professional psychological help if you have not yet done so.

But I can't deal with the fact I am not talented in running

david45 wrote:

jerschwab wrote:

Yes

Then how come I couldn't do it?

You don't have the talent to do it. Someone else can, but not you. This means you need to do some workouts to achieve sub 6. I was in your shoes as a hs freshman and a college freshman. The guys on my team seemed so talented, but by junior year I was beating those guys because I persisted. David, I know you don't have a hs running background but I think you should follow the summer of malmo this summer, and walk on a low tier d3 or naia team. Find a coach who is willing to take a chance on you and learn all you can about training from then. I think this will help you achieve your running goals and by the end of college you'll be setting goals you thought were way out of your league.

david45 wrote:

If someone is a young and healthy male, could they break 6 with only easy runs?

One of my daughters' suffered many injuries, aches & pains. When she was a high school T&F athlete, she jogged at 9+ a mile and raced, 6:0x.xx 1600m. She couldn't do any workouts or tempo runs. She could only run on grass. She just jogged a bit on soccer field grass then raced.

Grassrunner wrote:

You are either doing some kind of weird troll thing pretending to be a naive untalented moran to see what reactions you'll get or you've got some serious psychological issues. Either way,

Either way, there's no point responding to the threads. Seriously people just ignore the trolls and let the thread die

Yeah if you have talent. Sub 6 is not that fast for someone who is skinny and has natural talent.

david45 wrote:

Grassrunner wrote:

Seriously David????

As has been made pretty clear in responses from prior threads you've started, it's possible for many to do that with no runs at all. You continuously use this pattern of starting threads to complain that you haven't been blessed with any talent.

You are either doing some kind of weird troll thing pretending to be a naive untalented moran to see what reactions you'll get or you've got some serious psychological issues. Either way, you should seek professional psychological help if you have not yet done so.

But I can't deal with the fact I am not talented in running

David:

Dude. My first hs xc race was over 24 minutes. It seemed that by the end of hs all I could hope was to be mediocre. Then when I got to college, the d1 teams my d3 school raced seemed so fast. By the end though, there wasn't a team that we raced I wouldn't have been on the top 5 on. Stick with it and persevere. I hope you take the advice from my previous post. In addition to that post, I am giving you a summer reading list:

Running with the Buffaloes by Chris Lear

Racing the Rain by John Parker

Once a Runner by John Parker

Long Road to Boston by Bruce Tuckman

In one month, I want you to report back to letsrun on how your summer training is going, what progress you've made to walking on a college team or running for a nirca club, and what you thought of these 5 works. This is step one on the path to being one of the guys giving advice on letsrun instead of being a guy who can't seem to get anywhere in the sport.

In fact you can break 6 off of probably no running at all if you have excellent cardio from years of swimming. Webb was a national class swimmer before he took up running. Pretty sure he could break 6 off of swim cardio.

I know someone who was in the US Army, who would rarely run outside the slow jogs they would do for PT and he would run sub 12 minutes for 2 miles for his PT test.

david45 wrote:

jerschwab wrote:

Yes

Then how come I couldn't do it?

ARE YOU SURE YOU ARE YOUNG, HEALTHY, AND MALE?

My son ran 4:50 in 8th grade gym class on no training in the fall. He ran 4:40 during track on about 15 MPW.

behind the wall of sleep wrote:

I know someone who was in the US Army, who would rarely run outside the slow jogs they would do for PT and he would run sub 12 minutes for 2 miles for his PT test.

Most people can't do that

will run for ice cream wrote:

david45 wrote:

Then how come I couldn't do it?

ARE YOU SURE YOU ARE YOUNG, HEALTHY, AND MALE?

Shut up, you creepy British dude

Yes, but YOU shouldn't do easy runs only due to your average or below average talent.

Run at least 6 days a week, for 30 minutes to an hour, at a steady pace. Your heart rate will be high initially but will come down over weeks and months. Eventually you will be fit enough to run a good (for you) time for the mile.

David, have you ever tried, like, not running, or not trying to run, or not thinking about running, or never returning to this sport again?

I think you might find some success in doing so.