Is the gym class mile even a thing?
Is the gym class mile even a thing?
Non-runners don’t break 5.
Idk
I could very easily see a soccer player scrape below 5 minutes off of their fitness.
That is if schools still do gym class
If they do, they are recruited for track/XC.
NO
97% of my students break 4 in the gym mile....git good
Broke 2:20 during a 800m during PE class (didn't even started running yet)
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During the entire time I've been at my current HS (27 years) only 2-3 kids have done it. One of them was a soccer player with an aunt who is one of the fastest runnres all time in our county.
In Australia we don't run the mile but we have school athletics carnivals in which the whole school goes to the track and without any training other than a 3 week athletics unit. One of my students in 2006 ran around 4:35 for 1500m without training. He also won the 100m.
A few months later took him to a talent ID session for cycling. He won the green Jersey of the Tour de France in 2017. Have a nice signed jersey by him on my wall.
Talent is absolutely everywhere!
I imagine some soccer players might be able to at random
dragged through the garden wrote:
If they do, they are recruited for track/XC.
Where I live, soccer and basketball are KING. We don't have indoor track, but if we did, we wouldn't get anyone from B-ball. I base this on people we have lost from XC to be a JV soccer player. No way do we get XC runners from soccer now. We have gotten those athletes for spring track.
i was a soccer player and in junior high every 6 weeks we did a set of tests, including in offseason from track. i would win the 40 and shuttle run, and be top 5 in the mile sandwiched among the distance team, 505 or so, no distance work as such, but soccer practice and games.
we were supposed to do 1 mile as part of the presidential test in frosh PE but my friend and i were scouted off the 50 yard dash results and sent to track period.
based on being top 5 junior high the distance guys were always trying to get me out for XC. i finally caved soph HS. i could easily run well sub 5 with actual distance training. my issue was as someone who normally did sprints or hurdles i could never get the pacing right. couple times i was like in first place in the whole race running mile 1 sub 5, and felt good for maybe a mile after that.
the other "naturals" IMO would be hoops players. our best 2 distance guys, d1 type speed, were varsity hoops. they do more conditioning work than even soccer does. you need lungs to stay on the court and not need a sub. you have to try and beat people with bursts and outjump them. you have to track back and guard someone on defense.
soccer has that too. that to me is where it lies, needing to be able to summon speed when tired, and to drag your butt back on defense all game. i could pace for crap but we are chosen for speed and endurance -- kids who can't stay with speed of play or are out of shape get weeded out -- and we're gritty by nature. if i quit fighting with a minute left you maybe find a way to beat me.
Yes, swimmers do.
Yeah, swimmers are probably the fittest athletes in high school. The volume of cardio they do is amazing!
When I was in HS there was a sophomore on the water polo team that ran 5:12 in PE and that is the fastest non runner I have ever heard of.
Also I lived in a small town and went to a high school of ~1000 students so I imagine somewhere out there there are non runner athletes breaking 5, maybe by a lot. Soccer is the obvious answer, but they do so much running it’s almost not fair to call them non runners. The water polo guy was always pretty damn impressive to me.
My friend who's an 8th grader just ran 4:38 in the wellness mile. But he trains pretty damn hard.
Do any break 2:10 in the gym class marathon?
I broke 4 at 190 pounds and basketball shorts that went down to my ankles.