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I suspect there may be someone who can do all three.
If it's just one time, I'll say the 5k, so I'll always have that PR to point to.
If it's whenever I want (every time), I'll say the drive, as long as I'm also guaranteed it goes straight.
If there is a limited number of times, like 10-20, I'll go with the dunk, and just show off for people from time to time.
I know of one guy who can do the two-hand dunk and run 9.58. I understand that he's also pretty good at cricket.
That would be an interesting challenge. Although it seems commonplace around here, not many people (even here) can run sub 15 5k. Of those, how many are 6'3"or taller. I use that height as the bare minimum height a distance runner would need to be to dunk two handed. Most distance runners going sub 15 do a lot of distance and don't spend a ton of time doing explosive plyometric work unless I'm mistaken.
So of those capable of going sub 15, who also do the training necessary to dunk two handed and are most likely at least 6'3" tall, how many also know how to golf well enough to hit the ball 250 yards? This would be the easiest of the three in my opinion. Not easy for most, but not something you need big strength to do. A tall, thin distance runner could hit the ball tremendously far if he had the right swing.
I certainly don't know anybody that qualifies. I would guess many will reply saying either themselves or somebody they know can do this. If I see video evidence of a known sub 15 guy dunking two-handed then we can get serious. Until then it's difficult to believe.
There are 5'10" high schoolers that can two handed dunk.
I would pick the 15 min 5k.
Well, the issue is. Jumping ability leaves faster. I'm not close to 6 ft, but could dunk, albeit one-handed, and run a 15 min 5k at the same time. Can't dunk anymore, well, actually, can't run a 15 min 5k anymore either but I am a lot further away being a good runner than I am away from being a dunker.
I cannot dunk one handed, let alone two handed. Big difference between the two. I can run and golf, but would love to have hops. Would probably trade the golf for the hops.
Bob Kennedy?
At 6-2, I have dunked two-handed on several occasions. In fact, 30% of our high school basketball team could. However, nobody in our school's history has ever run 14:XX...even collegiately (and my school is the home of a former Master's USATF XC Champion).
Golf is a fat man's sport. Golfer's are NOT athletes. The best golfer I have ever known was a lazy, un-athletic sack of sh**.
I have done all three. None are that difficult.
I'd rather drive a ferarri than a golf ball. And oh yeah,I do. SUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKAAAAAAAA!
Dennis Reynolds wrote:
I have done all three. None are that difficult.
You also did a jack knife dive at a party and went down on a girl on a trampoline afterwards.
2-hand dunk - I'ld love to be able to legitimately dunk a basketball because it would then tell me I am powerful enough to produce something dead serious in track or on the roads. a big hint here is that your vertical on a jump does depend a lot on raw running power.
Sub-15 - MUCH rather of the 3 since in some road races its good enough for the win and it is also a big milestone for a serious runner. dunking a basketball only tells you a personal acomplishment and see below for the drive.
Golf Ball 250 yards - EASY - did this as a grade-school student and I'm shit in golf. when I played golf during some after-school hours in HS my average drive was in the 280s.
Time to rename the question:
360 dunk on a 10 footer
sub 30 for a 10k road race
sub-par on a high-level golf course
Which would you rather do?
I actually think that as a whole, people would be more impressed with a sub-15 5K. Even running something like a 15:50 5K would be considered extremely fast for some people. Lots of people can dunk, and a lot of people can drive a gold ball 250 yards. Sub-15 will be able to impress a lot more people.
I am close. I ran 14:30 and can hit a golf ball 250 fairly easily. In hs I could touch the rim.
As someone says, I'm not as good as I once was, but I'm good once..
Mac from Philly wrote:
You also did a jack knife dive at a party and went down on a girl on a trampoline afterwards.
Double jack knife twist actually. And I licked her butt hole a little bit too.
You are the type of person who gives runners a bad name. I bet you're the type who hypocritically gets up in arms when someone suggests runners are not athletes or says distance runners are just puny unathletic weaklings. Golf requires plenty of athleticism and strategy.
If the best golfer you have ever known was a lazy unathletic sack of sh1t, then you probably don't know any very good golfers... Sure, being a great golfer does not necessarily REQUIRE the kind of physique you may envision when you think of a "pro athlete," but almost all pro golfers these days work out plenty away from the golf course.
In response to the question, have run sub 15 and driven 250+ before. I actually think dunking is the "coolest" of the 3. I just googled "dunk calculator" and it looks like I'd have to be able to jump ~32 inches vertically to dunk. Never gonna happen. Dreams crushed.
I ran 14:30 for 5k when I was 16 years old. After getting into golf only recently after 5 times at the driving range I could hit straight high drives 180 yards.
I could never hope to dunk but I think when younger if I worked at it I could touch the rim.
The 14:30 at 16 years old was probably way more of a payoff than the other two could be in my life but driving 250 yards would be more prestigous at my age.
Dunking in itself? I played basketball with a guy at 6 feet tall that could dunk a tennis ball when he was 13. He might have ended up a starter on his high school team his senior year. That was it.
Dathan Ritzenhein?
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I ran 14:30 for 5k when I was 16 years old.