What is the fastest gym/PE mile anyone has ever run or witnessed. I went 4:59 (on the track) for my gym mile my senior year in high school. 2nd place was 5:34 by a soccer player. My PR at the time was 4:26. I'm sure there are faster gym/PE miles that have been run, so what are they?
4.46 in grade 8.
4:50 8th grade
4:44 by alejandro papachryssanthou-bernard in 10th grade
5:11, school record in mile debut
Didn't do a mile in H.S. gym class, but did do a half mile. Had to run my guts out to beat a couple of non-track people. Ran around 1:59 and then proceeded to throw-up in the drinking fountain. Needless to say no one drank out of that fountain when I was done with it. That may be one of the best times I've run as it wasn't on the track and had a couple of sharp turns in it.
Did anyone else have trouble getting over how uncool it was to try really hard in the PE mile?
5:55 (altitude/female). My teacher bought me an ice-cream cone for breaking 6:00. He also bought one for another girl just because she ran the whole way. I guess it's good to have goals.
I played basketball in 8th grade, and our coach was this huge conditioning fanatic because we pressed like crazy and played up-tempo (we averaged almost 60 points per game -- 24 minute games). Every day at practice we had to run a mile in under 6:00 and if you didn't you had to run suicides after practice. That was of course on top of the suicides (at least 10) and sprints we had to run at the end of practice. It was insane, but we were all in the best shape of our lives.
Remember the President's Fitness Test? We did that right after the basketball season, and just about every guy on the team ran the 600 in under 1:40 -- and the fastest was at 1:29. I think the 100th percentile at the time was like 1:50 or something. Too bad our school didn't have a track team.
The most we ran for distance up until highschool was a half mile. My freshmen year of highschool we were introduced to the 12 minute run where you see how far you can go for 12 minutes. Being a scrawny freshmen distance runner among a bunch of cocky football players wasn't the easiest thing to go through. Needless to say I gained some respect from them when I ran 9.5 laps for twelve minutes while most of them struggled to run six laps.
4:50 in 8th grade? What do you run now? That is fast! I ran 4:28 in high school and my progression was like this...
Freshman year- nt
Sophomore year- 4:57 (didn't run hard... just ran for the win)
Junior year- 4:35
Senior year- 4:28
So you were where I was at my sophomore year after 2 years of running in 8th grade! Damn you have/had talent.
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My gym teacher/coach made our whole class do 1.5 miles since to pass, you only had to run something ridiculously slow (I think around 18 minutes) whereas in the mile, you had to run like under 8:00 to pass (all of this according to "the charts"). So I took it out hard with a friend of mine who was a 400m runner and we hit the mile in 5:00. Then I fell off the pace a little (my friend slowed down terribly) and won in 7:52. This was soph year in h.s. and yes I wore spikes.
There's no such thing as the 100th percentile. If you're in the 100th percentile that means you are better than 100% of everyone, and you obviously can't be better than yourself. The best you can hope for is the 99th percentile.
Did anyone else have to carry popsickle sticks to count the laps you were on? Our P.E. teacher made us do this becuase we ran around the outfield of a baseball field which was like 12 laps. I think my best was 6:40 in 6th grade.
I made a joke out of the gym class mile. Even though I was the school record holder in the mile in track, I would jog the gym class mile. I think my senior year I was over 8 minutes for that mile and ran the whole way with a football player. It was funny hearing the gym teacher who timed our track and XC events screaming at me. Still got an A in gym.
Whatever it was totalloser -- it was a while ago and we were all way below the top number on their charts. Only a total moron would split hairs between 99 and 100 percent. Fact is, we ran fast.
We had to do the 12 minute run in 11th grade. A bunch of team sport guys tried to hang with me, they were ready to puke 2 laps into it. I went through 3200 in 10:15 running it like a hard tempo and ended up with about 9 1/3-1/2 laps. The next closest guy was at 7 laps.
It's a good exercise to teach regular jocks to have more respect for distance runners. They treated me with reverence after that experience.
4:32 IN 9TH GRADE
I used to get a note from the track coach that said I didn't have to run the PE mile because it would interfere with my training.
We always ran the 1.5 mile in Frehsman Fitness, because thats what the football team did and the football coach was the teacher. I ran 8:39 (altitude) as a frosh, which was faster than all the football players that year and all of the other classes. Pretty pathetic seeing that I ran the last 1.5 miles of my 19 miler sunday in 7:49.
hey, don't be so defensive. just making conversation. and, obviously, i am not the moron.
atownrunnin wrote:
Whatever it was totalloser -- it was a while ago and we were all way below the top number on their charts. Only a total moron would split hairs between 99 and 100 percent. Fact is, we ran fast.