How long you think?
How long you think?
by 2028 or 2032
Never. It's impossible.
this same stupid thread comes up at least once a month, c'mon think of something original.
I've been on this forum since april and I've only seen it once
It'll happen after the dude-chick from South Africa decides to train for it.
Maybe in 2049.
Cen u run a 4 min mile? If so, then the record has been broken.
Never.
you do realize that it was said to be impossible for men once too
A Skeptic wrote:
Never.
granddaddypurp wrote:
you do realize that it was said to be impossible for men once too
A Skeptic wrote:Never.
The women's world record is 4:12 and will be 15 this year. That's a lot of time. Do you see men running in the 3:30 neighborhood one day? Sub 2:00 is still a big deal for a woman.
Remember the thread that said that the 3 minute mile would be broken by 2015? I clicked the link they posted and it was a picture of the 2015 newspaper from Back to the Future 2.
Caster Semenya will run 3:59 in Eugene next year, then "she" will whip out the trouser snake, twirl it around and say "HAHHAHAHA FOOLED YA!!!"
666EnergyDrink wrote:
Caster Semenya will run 3:59 in Eugene next year, then "she" will whip out the trouser snake, twirl it around and say "HAHHAHAHA FOOLED YA!!!"
You just wasted a perfectly good "gobble, gobble, motherf***ers" oppurtunity!
A Skeptic wrote:
granddaddypurp wrote:you do realize that it was said to be impossible for men once too
The women's world record is 4:12 and will be 15 this year. That's a lot of time. Do you see men running in the 3:30 neighborhood one day? Sub 2:00 is still a big deal for a woman.
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3.30 is what Roger Bannister predicts the men's record will go down to. I think it will go a bit lower, in 100 years time or more.
For a woman to go under 4? maybe in 50 years or so, maybe sooner?
J.0. wrote:
A Skeptic wrote:The women's world record is 4:12 and will be 15 this year. That's a lot of time. Do you see men running in the 3:30 neighborhood one day? Sub 2:00 is still a big deal for a woman.
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3.30 is what Roger Bannister predicts the men's record will go down to. I think it will go a bit lower, in 100 years time or more.
For a woman to go under 4? maybe in 50 years or so, maybe sooner?
I think Bannister was wrong about that. 3:30 would need what, like 1:33-1:35 in the 800? In 30 years the world record for the 800 has gone down 0.7 seconds. Another 5 or 6 is a lot to ask. And for the women, 4:00 is worth like 1:47-1:48, while the record is 1:53 and all indications are that it will see its 28th birthday this year.
There just hasn't been that much improvement in middle distance running in a long while. Even in the 1500/mile, there hasn't really been much improvement since the 1980s.
Don't get me wrong, I would love to see a man go 3:30 and a woman break 4:00, I just don't see it happening.
Exactly my thoughts - not much happening in the 800/1500 for womens running. Those records are 27/17 years old. No one's gonna come here and break those easily, if at all. And no one is going to take 13s off of it.
granddaddypurp wrote:
you do realize that it was said to be impossible for men once too
Only by journalists trying to stoke up public interest and boost sales.
From Walter George onwards every generation of runners was gunning for it. By the late 1930s it was just a question of who and when. If it wasn't for WWII it could have gone 12-13 years sooner.
A Skeptic wrote:
The women's world record is 4:12 and will be 15 this year. That's a lot of time.
Well the women's 1500 record is 3:50 which converts to 4:08.
See, we just knocked off four seconds just like that.
There hasn't been much progress at all lately.
The top 14 times ever run in the 1500 were done 14 years ago or longer.
The #5 time was done 30 years ago.
The women have either hit their limit or are ready for a major breakthrough.
toro wrote:
Well the women's 1500 record is 3:50 which converts to 4:08.
How many of those are clean? Why are most of them late 90's? (hint: EPO) The newest record is over 13 years old now.
What if this table will never change again?