What was your time for your first timed mile?

I don't remember the exact time, but it was somewhere in the 11-12 minute range. And that was my freshman year of high school.

7th grade track - 5:52

6:05. First day of high school cross country practice, Sept. 1974, new runners ran 2 of the 4 scheduled repeat miles. We sat out the second and fourth. A lap around the grounds of Seneca High School in Lousiville, KY. I ran 6:05 and 6:37. I was breathing so hard a 10th grader named Robert Duncan said "Shut up, Sharp." I ran 5:25 in the freshman divison of the county meet at Chenoweth Park a few weeks later. Tim Hartford from J-Town won it. I ran 5:02 and 11:24 that spring in a double at Stuart. We ran a full mile and 2 mile in those days.

6:48 in PE class my freshman year of high school. We had to run under 7 min to get an A. I remember stopping and walking in the 3rd lap.

it was my sophmore year in high school and i ran a 5 25.

5:20. Soph in High School PE. Teacher said I should go out for track. Never did.

10 years later ran 4:14 at open meet training on my own without ever running in High School or College.

Should have done what the teacher asked originally...

Last Dec 5:16

5:54 in 5th grade.

4:54 as a sophomore.

Don't think I actually ever ran the right amount of laps around the basketball court in gym class in middle school.

4th grade "minithon" 1 mile run 8:52. ive come a long way

i ran a mile in gym class in 5th grade and was shocked that they wanted us to run a full mile. so i walked like 11 minutes, and then i went home and told my mom that i ran that like i was proud. she told me that a mile that slow was unnacceptable and brought me back to the track that night to actually run a mile, and i ran 7:21 and by the end of the school year i was down to 6:36 and by cross country the next year i was officially a runner

6:38, sixth grade PE

3rd Grade, May of 1988

6:52

The summer before I started highschool, my school had a lifting program for freshman that wanted to play football. Since I wanted to try out, I did it.

After the end of the first week, the coaches had all the kids run a mile as hard as they can (this was right after about an hour of light lifting). Once we walked over to the track, we saw an alumni of the school (that then was playing for USC) running on the track. He was a linebacker or safety I think. Anyways, him and my coach started talking, and then the coach says to us: "If anybody can beat him in the mile, I will buy them fatburger for lunch." The alumni says, "Hey hey hey, I just ran 2 miles...I don't know how well that bet will hold up." I guess he'd been doing some cross-training as well.

So the coach says go, and I get out a bit hard, but not too fast (I had learned my lesson from running a couple 1500's earlier that summer that my dad put me in at an open meet). I gap the guy, but he's still hanging on. Anyway, I get to the bell lap pretty confident that I was going to win...until the last 100m when I look to my right and the alumni is kicking like crazy. I then start my kick, and just barely edge him out at the line. 5:00 was my time, 5:01 for the alumni.

After this, the coach pulls me aside and tells me maybe I should do cross country. I said no, being that running 3 miles over hills sounds just crazy. I stayed on the team and was a starting wr and db. Never a superstar, but good enough to play. In spring I run track and run the 1600 in 4:40, and in the fall I run xc, being that I'd rather be a varsity xc runner, than a jv football player.

To this day, I can't believe that USC player ran a 5:01, after doing his workout. Pretty damn impressive if you ask me.

6:32, sat and kicked for the win. 7th grade

5:38 as a 7th grader,10 years later i broke 4.

not impressive

7th grade 5:25. my little brother ran a 6:21 at an unofficial fun run mile on July 4th, 2006. he was 6 years old.

6:10, end of 8th grade.