Junior H.S.er runs 1.5 miles in 6 :00 flat!!!!

It was probably 1500m (1.5k)

What ???? I have a friend who is a 13 year old 9th grader(skipped grade) who ran 1.5 miles in 6 flat( he came in 5th freshamn in counties)

Looks like then we got a GREAT crop for freshman 4min milers...in XC

correct me if im wrong but a mile and a half in 6 miinutes equal a four minute mile and then a 2 minute half mile meaning he ran 1.5 miles at 4 min mile pace

Could "the" record mean his high school record? And could "1.5 miles" really mean five laps and he remembers incorrectly? Still a solid time if so...

Hrm wrote:

Could "the" record mean his high school record? And could "1.5 miles" really mean five laps and he remembers incorrectly? Still a solid time if so...

Or maybe hes full of shit.

im pretty sure that ur right on that one

there was a sprinter on my college team that swore up and down that he ran a 5:32 1.5 mile in football practice. he then said his mile pr was 4:25 and would not listen to me when i said he would have to come through the mile in 4:25, then run a 1:07 next 800m to reach this time. all he responded with was "i did it in football practice." well, the kid flunked all of his hours for two semesters straight but luckily, our coach put his "record" up on the board and listed it as the "galaxy record"

[quote]mathamatics wrote:

correct me if im wrong but a mile and a half in 6 miinutes equal a four minute mile and then a 2 minute half mile.

I beg to differ...Using the Normal Baltzac Conversion Tables(revised 1946) The lactic threshhold would prohibit these splits,yet a slight move to Bio-Doppler protemp results in a non neolithic result maximizing the Looper Ratio. Thusly 3:27.77 for the initial 1507 meters is optimum pace with no degredation over the Miller-Fauter norms.

The guy said he hit the mile in just under 4:00 flat! its funny because he was straight up serious....and now he does nothing...what a waste of talent.

I did a 1.5 mile race in JR high in about 10 minutes. This guy would have lapped me three times.

Whenever someone tells me a story that has references split times or times that are significantly off, just know that they are either getting the distance wrong or the times wrong. They aren't necessarily trying to lie.

There was a girl on my cruise that was in high school that said that she runs 6 miles a day at 5:30 pace. I told her that she was full of sh it and said that she could not get on the tredmill on the ship and run one mile that fast.

She decided that it was better to think that I was a jerk then to admit that she was not world class.

t4b wrote:

I did a 1.5 mile race in JR high in about 10 minutes. This guy would have lapped me three times.

Whenever someone tells me a story that has references split times or times that are significantly off, just know that they are either getting the distance wrong or the times wrong. They aren't necessarily trying to lie.

There was a girl on my cruise that was in high school that said that she runs 6 miles a day at 5:30 pace. I told her that she was full of sh it and said that she could not get on the tredmill on the ship and run one mile that fast.

She decided that it was better to think that I was a jerk then to admit that she was not world class.

Im gonna guess there was one guy ,who runs, on that cruise, that didn't get laid.

There was this girl who told me she was 21. When the cops showed up, she turned out to be 12. I guess she had her numbers mixed up. Now I'm doing 20.

I've got to add this one because it came from a PH D candiate in Exercise Science - guys tells me he ran a 4:08 mile I thought he meant HS (and was very impressed). Later, I wondered where he went to HS because that would put him at the top in most states - turns out he was from my state. Then I find out it wasn't high school, but Junior High. So he ran 4:08 in Junior High...I told him that would be a world record...then he said it was in CC.

So basically here is moron whose JR HIgh coaches have lead him to believe he ran a legit 4:08 mile...but of course he is so "not smart" that he never figured it out himself: that the course was obviously short or he would have run a similar time in track season before an injury kept him from becoming 'I guess Americans greatest miler every'. The saddest part of this story is that he is currently working on a PH D at Kent State. Perhaps this is why when the "scientist" make training discoveries in the lab I am skeptical.

For example, same guy tells me a woman marathoner 3:45 range runs her marathon at 97% of her anaerobic max...I usually don't challange people, but on that one I had to. He does not understand what these things mean...on my bike treadmill test he conducted...1st) he had me sprint at the end to hit my max since I didn't achieve it during the 18 min incrementaly test (which actally resulted in me hitting my highest heart rate after the test was over during the cool down)...2) when my max vo2 came out around 50 and I tried to explain to him that his test was flawed for many reasons - he wasn't able to figure out that a sub 30:00 10K runner who gets a 50 max vo2 probably means something went wrong with your protocal. But some day he'll have a PH D and be publishing articles about training. Wow- that's going to be good. And I think he still believes he is a 4:08 Junior HIgh School miler.

Jerrry, you just have to laugh at guys liike this is you don't you will become very fustrate...I always smurk at the 10 flat hand timed 100yd guys.....and no we are not being jerks or "dissing" uneducated runners or even think we know it all its just when we try to explain they get offended and are like....Pugh! I'll run that 4 minute mile right now just to show you but I'm injured :-)

30 years ago alot of Jr. HS tracks were 330 yards.

Sounds like he ran a 1650yd. race to me. what he ran would have been the pace of a 6.24 mile had he kept the same pace for the remining 110 yrds.