With the World Athletics Road Running Championships taking place in Riga, Latvia 30 Sepb- 01 Oct, I tried to find the mark on World Athletics website using the Top Lists but the Road Mile does not appear.
What's the fastest legal time recorded for the Road Mile?
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OlympicGuy468 wrote:
With the World Athletics Road Running Championships taking place in Riga, Latvia 30 Sepb- 01 Oct, I tried to find the mark on World Athletics website using the Top Lists but the Road Mile does not appear.
They didn't officially keep them. But I think of you go back to the early you'll find the answer.
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Isn't it Mike Boit with a 3:28 back in the 80s or 90s? Course was ridiculously downhill.
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Manbearpig15 wrote:
Isn't it Mike Boit with a 3:28 back in the 80s or 90s? Course was ridiculously downhill.
Reread the subject line.
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Cdswt wrote:
Manbearpig15 wrote:
Isn't it Mike Boit with a 3:28 back in the 80s or 90s? Course was ridiculously downhill.
Reread the subject line.
If it's not officially kept, legal is up to interpretation. Could just mean accurately measured.
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Legal enough...
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What is "road legal?"
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The Molenberg (brand of bread) Mile from 1983 - starting up on Karangahape Road for a hundred yards and then bombing it straight down Queen Street, Auckland, NZ.
Mike Boit - 3.27.8
As for the "legality" ? Not sure there is such a thing on a road course, especially with a mile. Queen street is significantly downhill but so is 5th Avenue (much much less but still downhill) - not sure how you distinguish a measure of legality for a road mile (0% gradient the entire way? Net 0% elevation loss?).
Either way a sub 3.28 mile is fun to watch no matter where it's run. Kind of the point of these things isn't it?
p.s shout out to Larry David in the cape for making an appearance in the final 400m - a classic phantom display there
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Are there any good road miles that start and finish at the same spot?
That’s the only way to have record legal road mile.
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631 wrote:
Cdswt wrote:
Reread the subject line.
If it's not officially kept, legal is up to interpretation. Could just mean accurately measured.
The same standards that apply to other road races also apply to the mile (why wouldn't it?).
I refer to World Athletics' rules for certified road events, in which the mile is listed.
* Separation between start and finish – Performances achieved on courses where the start and finish points, measured along a theoretical straight line between them, are further apart than 50% of the race distance are: not valid for world records.
* Elevation drop – Performances achieved on courses with a drop in elevation between the start and the finish which exceeds 1:1000, i.e. 1m per km, are: not valid for world records, etc.
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In cross country we had a downhill trail we raced all the time about a mile and a quarter and we'd do it around 3 min pace
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