At a gym today and someone tells me they use to be a runner in High School.
Sub 1:49 800m!
I was impressed! (and skeptical...)
Then he said he could never break 5 minutes in the mile.
I was perplexed and questioned if this was even possible...
Discus
P.S. Some quick googling proves the man is more myth than legend..
Maaaaaaybe they meant sub 1:59 in the 800 and never broke 5? I barely broke 5 when I first broke 2:00 because I was very on the 4/8 side of things and never raced the mile.
They're probably just wrong though.
probably meant 2:49
Probably lying about everything and just doesn't understand what the times actually mean.
Not.
Ripley\'s wrote:
At a gym today and someone tells me they use to be a runner in High School.
Sub 1:49 800m!
I was impressed! (and skeptical...)
Then he said he could never break 5 minutes in the mile.
I was perplexed and questioned if this was even possible...
Discus
P.S. Some quick googling proves the man is more myth than legend..
It certainly is very possible. Only if they never raced the mile though! Maybe they only raced the 1500m and don't count conversions...
48-49:xx 400 speed?
ergtegerthgr wrote:
48-49:xx 400 speed?
Nah you’d need to be darn near world class 400m fast to be running 1:48 off of pure speed.
That being said, this is like the equivalent of saying you can run 10.5 and 21.5 in the 100m/200m but can’t break 60 in an open 400m.
I know a guy that could break 5:00 purely off of speed reserve, and we are talking 52.5 2:05 PBs here.
This is obviously just someone trying to relate to a sport they know nothing about probably.
Freshman year of hs i was asked what time i wanted to run and i had no concept of time and said 15:30 and a lot of people laughed at it lol.
Youd be surprised how little the average person knows about pace or distance if they have never really gotten into the sport