Would you rather run a sub 4 mile or [the difficulty equivalent] marathon time? What's an equivalent marathon time?

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8 years ago 10/15/2015 8:25pm EDT

re: Bernie Sanders

I'd rather take the equivalent marathon time (whatever that is, I could care less) over a 4:00 mile. Knowing I've put in a 4:00 mile-type performance for a marathon would mean more to me than running a 4:00 mile, simply because I prefer long distance racing over middle distance racing, just as I would rather run a 4:00 mile than a 4 minute mile equivalent at the 100 or 200 meters, as sprinting is not at all what I'm into.

That being said, the notion that whatever the marathon wr was at the time the 4:00 mile was first achieved would be the equivalent is bogus. Hardly anyone was running the marathon back then, and with no magical time goal, but many were racing the mile, and guys were ferociously gunning for the sub 4.

8 years ago 10/15/2015 8:34pm EDT

re: Consider this...

Sub-4 mile for me.

I'd say it's somewhere around 2:14 as the equivalent.

The women's mile record is a good ways off of sub-4, so an equivalent time should be I reachable by any of the ladies.

It should also qualify you for the Olympic Trials but by no means give you confidence that you will make an Olympic team.

A 2:30 marathon is just as impressive as a 2:12 to most people.

Tell them you broke 4 and they will ask if that's a World record

8 years ago 10/15/2015 8:34pm EDT

re: Bernie Sanders

I would take the 4 minute mile. Who wants to run for over 2 hours??

8 years ago 10/15/2015 8:55pm EDT

re: Lenny Leonard

Lenny Leonard wrote:
The women's mile record is a good ways off of sub-4, so an equivalent time should be unreachable by any of the ladies.

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8 years ago 10/15/2015 10:14pm EDT

re: Lenny Leonard

I'd think a relatively talented person could run a 4 minute mile and still live a normal life, but running the equivalent marathon time would demand pretty much all of your energy. You'd be super skinny and tired all the time and too tired for anything else. You'd live a super lonely boring life. You'd always have to go home and sleep when everyone else is out having fun. It would be a horrible, miserable existence.

8 years ago 10/15/2015 11:15pm EDT

re: Lenny Leonard

Except for one special lady with interesting blood values and who drafted men most of the way.

Lenny Leonard wrote:
Lenny Leonard wrote:
The women's mile record is a good ways off of sub-4, so an equivalent time should be unreachable by any of the ladies.
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8 years ago 10/15/2015 11:28pm EDT

re: Bernie Sanders

I've wondered the same thing. very interesting to see how many Americans have run sub 4 and sub 2:10. I think it's only allan cullpepper with 2:09 and 3:38 for the 1500.

8 years ago 10/15/2015 11:36pm EDT

re: Bernie Sanders

Bernie Sanders wrote:
My guess is that a low 2:19 is equivalant, what say you?

There have been 449 sub 4 minute milers. There 141 males who have qualified for the 2016 olympic trials (sub 2:18 or sub 65 half). If you look at the last 40 years of olympic qualifing, how many thousand sub 2:19s runners do you think they have been.

Sub 4 might not be worth a 2:11 (i.e. some of the equivalency charts) but it is least in the 2:13-2:15 range

8 years ago 10/16/2015 6:10am EDT

re: adsf

adsf, I can buy that range. But I remember a commentator on a marathon race once saying (early eighties) that the sic, "the magic barrier was 2:11".

8 years ago 10/16/2015 2:13pm EDT

re: blazer 2

blazer 2 wrote:
I've wondered the same thing. very interesting to see how many Americans have run sub 4 and sub 2:10. I think it's only allan cullpepper with 2:09 and 3:38 for the 1500.

Three Americans sub-4 and sub-2:10; see:

http://bringbackthemile.com/news/detail/select_group_only_20_men_have_gone_sub_4_and_sub_210

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