Mo Greene Mile

i think this is all pretty funny. you people dont know much about muscle fiber types, how they work, their ability or inability to act like other types, and the energy systems of the body. i'll give him sub 6, but no way in hell he runs sub 5. his muscles would tighten up so fast and when that much muscle tightens up, no way in hell does he keep stride enough to finish in sub 5. He would have the choppiest, funniest looking stride from about 500 on out, assuming he was running 75s. (you know, like he's got a stick up his ass heading straight through his bald oversized head.) Oh yeah, another point, the type of steroids he was on (and we all know he was on them) actually deter against the ability for the body to use oxygen efficiently.

i think this is all pretty funny. you people dont know much about muscle fiber types, how they work, their ability or inability to act like other types, and the energy systems of the body. i'll give him sub 6, but no way in hell he runs sub 5. his muscles would tighten up so fast and when that much muscle tightens up, no way in hell does he keep stride enough to finish in sub 5. He would have the choppiest, funniest looking stride from about 500 on out, assuming he was running 75s. (you know, like he's got a stick up his ass heading straight through his bald oversized head.) Oh yeah, another point, the type of steroids he was on (and we all know he was on them) actually deter against the ability for the body to use oxygen efficiently.

^I'm glad you posted that three times, maybe it will get through there heads now.

The man has barely any slow twitch fibers, a gigantic frame and is(probably) mentally unprepared for a distance race. I'm amazed at how many people think he could run 4:20 for the mile, which is about 4:03 for the fifteen. Do you guys really think he could keep pace with a lot of small college DR's? Sprinters really tend to crack after 800 meter and I'm sure this is WAY to far out of his element. I'd be impressed with sub 6:00 and amazed with sub 5:30.

I've seen several big buff sprinter dudes jump in my workouts for fun and die a very painful death. They weren't Mo's caliber, but could run 10.5 any day of the week and couldn't hang with me past the 1st 600 in a workout of mile repeats. Based on what I've seen, I'd be absolutely shocked if Mo could run sub 4:50. My best estimate is 5:20 to 5:45.

A good decathlete might be capable of a 4:20 1500 (obviously some a capable of faster) which is like a 4:40 mile. The bigger guys who are better 100m types (like Mo Greene) usually don't break 5 during the event (but might be able to fresh). These are guys who have great fast twitch muscle fiber development and also train for distance! In conclusion, Mo Greene should have been able to run a 5:30 mile and perhaps a sub 5 if he ran 30mpw, but his 100m alone doesn't guarantee it.

Below are the 1500M Decathlon results from the 2004 Olympics. You do the math...

1 Argentina Santiago Lorenzo 4:23.08

2 Uzbekistan Vitaliy Smirnov 4:23.31

3 Moldova Victor Covalenko 4:23.81

4 Spain David Gómez 4:29.70

5 Russia Nikolay Averyanov 4:31.02

6 Netherlands Eugene Martineau 4:31.79

7 China Qi Haifeng 4:32.63

8 Germany Stefan Drews 4:34.21

9 Belarus Aleksandr Parkhomenko 4:37.94

10 Latvia Janis Karlivans 4:38.67

11 Norway Hans Olav Uldal 4:41.70

12 Estonia Indrek Turi 4:50.01

13 United States Paul Terek 4:50.36

14 Italy Paolo Casarsa 4:56.12

15 Greece Pródromos Korkízoglou 5:17.00

Mo is slow in the long distanse. Even tough he has speed. His fast twitch fibers and body size will make him stop like a carcrash midways. My guess is 5.10-5.20 minutes for 1500m

haha. Mo 4.03 in 1500m? Does people know anything about running?

? wrote:

I would be really surprised if he could even break 6.

Sonofabitch! Do you know who I am? I'm Moe Greene! I made my bones when you were going out with cheerleaders!

I would be shocked if he could break 6, personally. With no specific training. I'm also assuming he has very little sense of pace and would likely go out too fast and blow up.

I also think the O.P. knows nothing about sprint training if he thinks Mo is doing 5-6 miles a day in sprints.

Moe Greene wrote:

? wrote:

I would be really surprised if he could even break 6.

Sonofabitch! Do you know who I am? I'm Moe Greene! I made my bones when you were going out with cheerleaders!

Ha Ha! Month that was funny! Imagine, a letsrunner who dated a cheerleader!!!

All of you are ridiculous. Mo Greene, a world class athlete, not breaking six minutes for a mile?! Thats ridiculous. Get out of here. Get your heads out of the sand. Perk it up! Think with your head (not the one down south).

Fredo Quote wrote:

You don't come to letsrun.com and talk to a man like Mo Greene like that!

classic GF quote

I cannot believe people think he couldn't break 6. Think about how easy a 60 second 300 meters would be for him, then assume that he would run a easy 30 second 100. You guys think that there is NO WAY Mo Green could run this workout? I guarantee that Mo Green, as the fastest man in the world, could run 4 x 300 in 45 seconds, with a medium (30 second) 100 meter jog in between. Thats a 5 minute mile.

You gotta figure he is getting at least as much in the way of distance training as soccer players, and most of them are in pretty decent distance shape.

Are you guys idiots? He is a world class athlete who obviously had 44/45 second quarter speed, which means he would smash 2 minutes in the 800. [quote]

sub 2 in the 800 there's no way he's over 4:30 in the mile. 4:30 in the mile, there's no way he's over 15:30 in the 5k. 15:30 in the 5k he'd run a 32:00 10k. He goes sub 32 in the 10k, he's got a shot at going under 2:30 in the marathon.

OK, so these decathletes can run sub 5, and Mo Greene can't? Mo Greene could easily run sub 5. We are talking about Mo Greene fresh in his prime, not even after 9 events like a decathlete. The thought that he couldn't break 6 blows my mind. There are thousands of women and girls who can break 6. Maurice Greene fresh in his prime can break 6, and yes break 5 too.

I can run 3:51 in the 1500, so I'm thinking i could easily go under 9.8 in the 100

I'd be surprised if skinny Wariner could run under 4:20 his first try, let alone a huge ass Maurice Greene. If it was that easy, all sprinters would just move up. Sorry for bringing Wariner into this as he is brought up way too much anyway, but if he could run 4:20 on his first attempt with no specific training, think how fast he could be if he focused on it. My friend took more than 30 seconds off his mile time in one year after switching from the sprints to the distance, and he was a 52 400 guy. This would mean if Wariner could drop a 4:20, he could be at least a 3:50 miler, which is pretty unlikely. If Wariner couldn't run 4:20, how in the hell is Mo Greene going to.

Mo Greene could break 4:40 in the mile in his prime. You know he worked out like a maniac to be consistantly under 10, and those workouts would have carried him to 4:40 or better. Since he would be unfamiliar with running 4 laps for time, he would benefit by having a pacer. Then he would out kick him in the last 100. Mo, are you out there? Have you ever run a mile for time? If anyone knows Mo, ask him.