I was doing strides yesterday at the local gym. Usually, the fastest I have seen is 5:00 min mile pace. I obviously know (from watching Rupp's video) that they can go extremely fast. However, at the gym yesterday, I kept increasing the speed. It reached 4:16 mile pace. I must've looked like a crab with those fast legs!
I hope no dumb kids realize how fast they can go.
My high school had a couple treadmills that could go to 15 mph. It was hazing tradition to make the freshmen runners run on them for as long as they could until they fell off (obviously without coaches present).
10.7 MPH
4 light years per second. My molecular configuration
started to destabilize, so I jumped off.
I tried it for kicks a few months ago. I got up to 10.0. I was in danger of falling off the back of the TM. I'm 50+ and don't have any fast twitch left. I used to run 56 secs for 400m in HS
I've gone a 10:43 minutes/pace. Also I have large muscles and a thing which women desires.
15MPH? dang. The 4:16 mile pace was 14MPH. That's quick.
this fast:
callme...cat wrote:
I was doing strides yesterday at the local gym. Usually, the fastest I have seen is 5:00 min mile pace. I obviously know (from watching Rupp's video) that they can go extremely fast. However, at the gym yesterday, I kept increasing the speed. It reached 4:16 mile pace. I must've looked like a crab with those fast legs!
I hope no dumb kids realize how fast they can go.
12MPH; I've never been on a treadmill that goes faster than that.
Proletarian treadmill user wrote:
[quote]callme...cat wrote:
12MPH; I've never been on a treadmill that goes faster than that.
I was in the same boat until I tested this one. There are prob 15 of the same ones in the gym I go.
20km/hr
22% slope, though, as well.
callme...cat wrote:
Proletarian treadmill user wrote:[quote]callme...cat wrote:
12MPH; I've never been on a treadmill that goes faster than that.
I was in the same boat until I tested this one. There are prob 15 of the same ones in the gym I go.
Alot of the newer precor models go 14 or 15 mph, and some can do -3 or -5 incline too.
Only annoying thing is the Precor models we have at the gym have no button to input speed, you have to hold the damn wheel up all the way to 14, which gets a little awkward as you increase the speed. That or step off and then jump on when you are at pace.
14 MPH was treadmill max.
todayisthrsdy wrote:
I've gone a 10:43 minutes/pace. Also I have large muscles and a thing which women desires.
I assume that "Thing" is a thick wallet?
Precor 966 and 966I go 16mph I think that's like 3:47, even 4:30 seems really fast on treadmill. Never gone that fast, but enjoy watching You Tube videos of people attempting to.
todayisthrsdy wrote:
I've gone a 10:43 minutes/pace. Also I have large muscles and a thing which women desires.
x-fit guy?
ive done 15mph but thats the highest it goes to ive always thought i could do 17 or 18
fastest my gym has goes to 12.5 mph. I'm sure there exist treadmills that go above 15 mph, but probably few commercially available. The 15 mph cut off is probably more of a soft safety feature than the makers can't get it to go faster. Think about it, a few hundred people in the world can run that pace for a mile, quite a few can run that pace for intervals, but most of them will be training outside. Most the people who would put it that fast are dumb kids seeing if they can run as fast as the treadmill goes and could hurt themselves if they were thrown off at 15-20 mph.
The treadmills at my college gym go 16mph/3:45 pace iirc.
I believe they are the same kind of treadmill Rupp used in that post race workou.
I've been 'on' a treadmill that goes up to 40 kmph, which is just under 25mph.
However, this was in a sports science lab and those speeds were only ever used for cycling. Probably 5 feet wide, 8 feet long treadmill, with a full rig above it to harness you in on a bike. Should you so desire. Whole thing controlled remotely via a laptop, so you couldn't mess around with it. Fun to run on though.