how slow can you go?

I taught a wellness class at an un-named university last year. We had a 1.5 mile timed run as one lab. Had a few amazing specimens run in the low 20min range. I wanted to shoot myself.

Know what's even more embarrassing?

You are.

I can run slower than that

Zeitgiesty author of "Liar's Poker" and "The New, New Thing" and "Moneyball: The Art Of Winning An Unfair Game".

In the early 1990s, he put together a collection of short stories that chronicled the circus that was Wall Street in the late 1980s called "The Money Culture". (Penguin - US$14.00)

One of those stories was "Franky's Longest Mile", a hilarious tale of a chubby, 40-something bond trader at Salomon Brothers who casually mentions to a colleague one morning that he could run a mile in under 8 minutes.

The colleague, as Lewis relates, suggested he doubted the trader could run to the elevator if the building were set fire.

An agrument ensued, and, to make a long story short, about $30,000 was wagered on the ability of Franky to make it round the four laps in under 7:40 by his fellow traders around the globe.

I won't tell you how it ends, but it's worth looking up if you're ever in the business section of your local Barnes & Noble.

Martin

Oh, I can't wait to get to the bookstore! Please tell me how it ends, the suspense is just killing me.

I'm picking up your sarcasm.

Martin

I remember reading a book/short story with a character by the name of Porko Von Potbottom. Strange how I remember that name all these years later. Anyone else read that one?

I'm 45 and just started running 8 years ago when I was 240+ lbs. I couldn't WALK to the beer store without getting winded. I'm now about 185 (should be 175)and I run to the beer store. I remember when I "ran" my first mile ever in just over 10 minutes and barfed. Most people these days are fat and lazy and it bugs the shit out of me.

Why the hell do you guys care if someone runs a super slow mile? At least they are running. Care about those who sit on the couch and bitch about how fat they are and blame Mc Donalds for making them that way. Care about that, not those that are trying!

Hey, I've been running for 26 years and yesterday I quite happily did a 7 mile easy run on the treadmill at exactly an 11:00 pace the entire way while watching the 2003 World Championships. So just shoot me for a slow, let's watch TV kinda run...

I commend people for making the effort to excercize so I'm not saying this to try and poke fun of this lady, but on Dr. Phill for his weight loss challenge segmant the people had to walk for "x" amound of time and one lady got up to a 231 HR just walking, and it wasn't a fast walk. I honestly didn't know anyones heart rate could get up that high just walking. Crazieness

Whats the actual answer to the question. How slow can you run? I was asked by my boss if I wanted to join him for a run this past week at a sales meeting, if I didn't mind running 8:30p. I had to avoid the question and blow him off because I don't think I could run that slow without walking. I think you'd be more prone to injury by adding all those strides.

For all you a-holes out there who are not illiterate (and I know there must be one or two); Michael Lewis's story is hilarious, as all of his books are.

Let me just add a pre-emptive f*** all of you so I don't have to respond again.