I know everyone's always interested to learn what athletes in other sports can run, so check out this video posted by the UH sports performance coach. The coach said in another tweet that 5:19 was their fastest team average since he started working there 8 years ago.
I wanna give a special shoutout to the "slowest" on the team— 5:45 at 260lbs is way more impressive than a guard 60lbs lighter running 5:20. That's some real fitness.
That is some great fitness.
I wonder if their basketball practices function as the long aerobic work. Because I'm guessing these guys aren't going for longish continuous runs, or sitting on bikes for more than 30 minutes, and conventional wisdom would say you need a bit of mileage/volume to get those times.
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That is some great fitness.
I wonder if their basketball practices function as the long aerobic work. Because I'm guessing these guys aren't going for longish continuous runs, or sitting on bikes for more than 30 minutes, and conventional wisdom would say you need a bit of mileage/volume to get those times.
I dont think basketball is enough cardio training for some guy who plays pickup at the YMCA to run a 5:30 but I'm not shocked that genuinely elite athletes can hop on a track and run between 5 and 6 minute miles. Its nto like they are trying to run a half marathon, a mile isn't that far.
basketball itself is a decent form of cardio and i'm sure they do other types of sprint/agility drills and jumping rope etc.,
first of all if you want me to believe this you have to show the whole video of them running the mile not (4 seconds worth).
Plus what i saw was not low 5:00 pace.
I remember when I was younger a D1 bb team bragging about how fast they could run 5k. One day I just happened to be passing by the track when they were doing this 5K race thing. It was not run on the track until the last mile...the first two miles were on the road and based on where they started was no where near 2 miles. The part that was on the track I timed and was seeing no one going under 6:00 pace for the final mile - yet somehow they were claiming to be running in the 15:00's.
Total BS
BB coaches are not very good with stopwatches and race distance measuing
they like to talk however.
So show me the whole video - then you can talk
until then - no
I watched these guys run their mile for years. It's accurate.
Every year they had a few low 5 minute milers, and sometimes a sub 5.
I remember one year the top guy running sub 5. What made it even more impressive is it was clear these guys couldn't pace well yet. They ran like you'd see JV or freshman HS kids run. The splits were all over the place. It's been a few years, but for a guy running 4:56, it was something akin to 69, 76, 79, 71. Again, those are off the top of my head, but the point is that with some better pacing, some of these guys would be able to run in the 4:4x range.
And they are often doing this at 7am in the morning in hot/humid conditions of Houston.
It's impressive. They run a quality program there.
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first of all if you want me to believe this you have to show the whole video of them running the mile not (4 seconds worth).
Plus what i saw was not low 5:00 pace.
I remember when I was younger a D1 bb team bragging about how fast they could run 5k. One day I just happened to be passing by the track when they were doing this 5K race thing. It was not run on the track until the last mile...the first two miles were on the road and based on where they started was no where near 2 miles. The part that was on the track I timed and was seeing no one going under 6:00 pace for the final mile - yet somehow they were claiming to be running in the 15:00's.
Total BS
BB coaches are not very good with stopwatches and race distance measuing
they like to talk however.
So show me the whole video - then you can talk
until then - no
Alan Bishop, their S&C coach, is the real deal and I have zero doubt that he knows how to measure a race. Low 5s is far from unbelievable for a basketball player. People here freaked out and called fraud when some NBA guy claimed he hit a sub 60 400m at the end of a track workout. These guys are so springy and they run up and down a court for tens of minutes at a time. They need a modicum of cardio to get to the end of a mile in a respectable time.
Now, basketballers running 15 min 5ks is fantasy, I'll agree there. The best would probably dip under 18 on a good day. Maybe a freak or two had sub 17 in them.