How fast would the mile world record be if people actually ran to the death?

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2 years ago 06/12/2021 1:24pm EDT

re: ElGuerroujFan

ElGuerroujFan wrote:
In some extreme cases, people have been known to have sudden bouts of superhuman strength and agility, like a mother lifting a car to save her child. What if people (theoretically) ran to the death, or with the fear of death? For example, a person being chased by some sort of animal who would kill them. Or just someone who runs themselves into the ground with no fear of what will happen afterward. My guess is 3:40 lows, or something around there. I wonder if we would break the 3:40 barrier.

+10 interesting question!

2 years ago 06/12/2021 2:08pm EDT

re: ElGuerroujFan

Don't think that's possible in a distance as short as a mile. Your body would shut down before it got to that point. In other words, you would collapse and go unconscious before you died.

2 years ago 06/12/2021 2:55pm EDT

re: Les

We are at limits of ability for numerous reasons. None are genetic. If you change these limitations you would likely see a bump in all world records

1. The number of top athletes competing is competitive running (football and basketball take the talent away from distance running is schools)

2. Diet- we need a breakthrough on how we fuel

3. Physical adaptions at a young age. Proven fact that kids age 9-12 make huge adaptions to running. the problem is that we dont have kids doing that.

4. Societal changes, take kids with mass talent at a young age and groom them for it instead of 8 hour school days, then college, then a job.

5. Someone pay for it, make world records worth millions and you will see some serious racing happen

2 years ago 06/12/2021 2:57pm EDT

re: Bob Schul trainer

Could you imagine if Elon Musk starting hosting track meets? World records get $1,000,000 in Bitcoin

2 years ago 06/12/2021 2:59pm EDT

re: GettingFasterDude

it's a real thing, but it's not super likely to sustain you for a sub 3:40 mile. there's many stories like where some guy held off a huge rock or something. a slight negative was that while he had a surge of power, he still ended up badly injured cause it was too much for his bones and tendons

2 years ago 06/12/2021 3:08pm EDT

re: ElGuerroujFan

If this was a continuing thing, maybe there would be an incentive for humans to find really fast mates so that their offspring will have a better chance of surviving these run to the death mile races. That could easily bump up the WR and maybe we could see some cool adaptations?

2 years ago 06/12/2021 3:11pm EDT

re: 3:30 one mile is NOT realistic

LOL, sorry. I was thinking 1500 times. I agree there's no chance that anyone could run that fast for a mile.

2 years ago 06/12/2021 4:07pm EDT

re: ElGuerroujFan

Wouldn't happen.

Either the person runs all-out from the get and then wouldn't go much further than 500m, and then even with all her will, the person will slow down, and even if he keeps going the person would at best crumble and keep moving with his arms, at worse lose consciousness.

Or the person doesn't go all out but way faster than its personal potential mile time current fitness and what happens in scenario 1, just happens further out depending on what pace the person is going.

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