Great Post - Good Job BigWave. Thought I would keep it going so others could read.
Great Post - Good Job BigWave. Thought I would keep it going so others could read.
funny, i actually know exactly what video he is talking about where he ran that 4.04. saw it on google video a while back
Bump for he broke 4 for real now.
Yep, set a new cal school record this weekend in 3:58 and change. Congrats!!!
Anyone else think this is the greatest thread in Letsrun history?
by far
wrong dano wrote:
Anyone else think this is the greatest thread in Letsrun history?
Awesome run Big Wave! This is one of my favorite threads ever. Way to silence the few idiots who took the downhill mile too seriously.
Will we see you at Prefontaine Classic?
Hey Big Wave, did you do the 3:58 for the muffins?
It might have already been posted, but I think I found the video for the 2nd annual downhill mile:
If you guys are feeling ambitious, here's blurbage from the NY Times re: Scott's downhill run.
'"In Auckland, New Zealand,the fastest mile run ever timed will never be recognized officially.
Steve Scott, an American, was timed in 3 minutes 31.25 seconds in a mile race down Auckland's main street today. The course dropped 200 feet over the distance. Mike Hillardt of Australia was second in 3:32.25, Ray Flynn of Ireland third in 3:32.75 and John Walker of New Zealand fourth in 3:33.93."
Hey Big Wave,
How come we didn't get a thread about this too?
http://rodale.typepad.com/footloose/2007/06/alter_g_treadmi.html
"Allen has also seen a friend, 3:58 miler David Torrence, run a 3:40 Alter-G mile. "
It sounds pretty awesome. Think you can go 3:30 on that thing? How low was your body weight when you did that?
great thread.
I am glad that someone brought this back up because I would have never seen it.
Wow, I forgot about this guy. Thanks for the bump, and congrats to the OP. Even downhill with a tornado at my back, I couldn't break 4.
Best thread ever was the one that featured this young lovely:
Sarcastic Third Tit wrote:
If you guys are feeling ambitious, here's blurbage from the NY Times re: Scott's downhill run.
'"In Auckland, New Zealand,the fastest mile run ever timed will never be recognized officially.
Steve Scott, an American, was timed in 3 minutes 31.25 seconds in a mile race down Auckland's main street today. The course dropped 200 feet over the distance. Mike Hillardt of Australia was second in 3:32.25, Ray Flynn of Ireland third in 3:32.75 and John Walker of New Zealand fourth in 3:33.93."
Heard of 1, 3, and 4, not number 2 though. Who is the Aussie? 3:32.25, beating Flynn and Walker, is definitely flying. Must have been amazing to watch that mile and see them running that fast in person.
Wonder what El G, Ngeny, Lagat, etc. could run in that type of downhill mile.
Don't feel like double-posting, but that treadmill article was pretty good too.
bump for his 3:58 @ 5th ave
bump for him winning USATF indoor 3k
Bump!
Go David. Not downhill, but good luck!
This thread was the first thing I thought about after the Puma mile.
Good memories
Big Wave wrote:
Hey everybody. As you can see, I'm attempting to break 4 minutes in the mile... downhill. I've recently run a 4:04 1600 on a flat track, and instead of training harder and working those 6 seconds down...I've decided I want to break it NOW instead of later.
Well, its not really my decision...well sort of, but not really. After a night of trash talking and pasta, I told a teammate of mine that I would break 4 minutes in the mile this year (by the end of 2005...this was in early october). If I accomplished this feat he exclaimed that he would run a naked mile. We shook on it. So the next weekend I went out and did a time trial just to see where I was at...and somehow pulled that 4:04 out of my ass. Well, then the trash talking really got heated, and then it cooled down a lot. Anyway, long story short, I kinda slacked off on my speed training...and well, just training in general. I'm pretty sure I'm still in 4:04 shape for the 1600...but I'm running out of time now. And since we never specified on what surface this mile was to be run on, I'm taking advantage of that and running it downhill.
So while everybody is still in school and can watch to verify, late this Friday night, I will attempt to barrel down a one way street in order to win the above described bet.
But also, to be a man about it, I will attempt a REAL mile on a track later this month after some decent training.
I've used "Google Earth" to measure it out to the hundredth of a foot and will also use a car just to see if there's a huge difference or anything. The elevation difference is almost 200ft...going from 353ft to 157ft pretty steadily, no sudden drop offs...except for maybe the first 20yds.
Now, here's where I ask help from the letsrun community. How many of you have raced a downhill mile? Is this too steep? Should I worry about going out too hard? Is there a different strategy I should employ since this is downhill...such as positive splits vs. negative splits vs. even pacing? What should I do tomorrow in terms of a pre-race workout? Maybe some downhill 200's to get the feel of it? Also...does anybody think I could break 3:50? I think I remember reading that Steve Scott ran a 3:30 downhill mile, which is 17 seconds faster than his pr.
Well Gang, thanks a lot for your help and I'll be sure to keep you all posted on this extremely stupid event.
P.S. I don't want to hear about how, "Ohhh this is so bad for you...blah blah blah." I'm gonna do it. And plus, I regularly recover from stupid stuff pretty well anyways. Thanks again.
Casey Batey, is that you?
Check out the youtube videos. You might recognize the participants.
RIP: D3 All-American Frank Csorba - who ran 13:56 in March - dead
RENATO can you talk about the preparation of Emile Cairess 2:06
Running for Bowerman Track Club used to be cool now its embarrassing
Hats off to my dad. He just ran a 1:42 Half Marathon and turns 75 in 2 months!
Great interview with Steve Cram - says Jakob has no chance of WRs this year
Rest in Peace Adrian Lehmann - 2:11 Swiss marathoner. Dies of heart attack.