3:58 off 1 year of training, no previous running?

maybe he ran 458ish. sorry but this would have been newsworthy on these boards and we would have already heard about it by now.

Rather than reveal whether or not he achieves his goal, I’ll just caution viewers that the time given on the video does not necessarily match that of the actual event.

Hilder did run a 4:34 1500 at a track meet last July. That's better than I've done in seven years, sadly.

not real.

http://www.straight.com/article-70942/jamie-hilder-the-miracle-mile

Fooled your friend though.

I don't care if he went to medical school, Roger Bannister is not, never was, and never will be a "geek" as suggested in the article. Renaissance man and all around bad-ass for being the first under 4 is more like it.

I know this guy personally. He trained with our team for a year while he was doing this project.

Anyway, right off the bat I'm going to clear up a misconception that EVERYONE seems to get about this project:

The project WAS NOT AN ATTEMPT AT A SUB-4 MILE.

His project was merely to COMMEMORATE the runners who took part in Miracle Mile held in Vancouver back in the day. What Jamie wanted to do was put himself in the shoes of a competitive miler from the 50's. He dressed the part down to the last detail, custom-made spikes and all. He ran the filmed mile on a cinder track with a guy in a golf cart filming him as he went along. The video was fixed to make it LOOK as if he ran 3:58.

The actual time he achieved while training for the project was around 4:50. Considering he had no previous training, he was very impressive. Good stride.

Funny part was after the project, he stopped the training as he said he was so looking forward to doing...and then came back a couple weeks later...he was hooked!

Thanks for clearing that up, makes a lot more sense now. I can't believe that I was nearly convinced, but it sounded pretty real. It sounds like a cool exhibit, still I'm happy my world is back to normal knowing that it's damn hard to run a 4:00 mile.

yeah i trained with him for that year too(who are you skiziks??)..anyway, he told me that it was some form of 'endurance art' where he wrote up a list prior to starting of all the things he would do during that year. he took a picture of himself everyday to document changes in his body. he spent 2 hours a day training. he consulted a professional coach to determine an ideal training schedule etc. then he video-taped his mile and sped it up so that it looked like he ran a sub 4. overall i think its a cool idea. it was great when he explained it to our ESL coach who got very angry and said there was no way he could run a sub 4 in one year. all the explaining in the world wasn't going to get it through his head!

I ran with him too and funny thing was he was the most consistant at showing up to practice of the runners training in the group. Maybe thats why UBC is in need of a mircale to make nationals this season.

this must be UBC's token Kiwi?

I'm pretty sure he's not from NZ...

bcer, I'll give you a clue...my French is a bit rusty but I'm fluent in Geek (no typo)...

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I ran with him too and funny thing was he was the most consistant at showing up to practice of the runners training in the group. Maybe thats why UBC is in need of a mircale to make nationals this season.

I'd say it has a lot more to do with the fact that we have 2 seniors and 0 juniors on the team.