UNC BBall mile time record 4:36
UNC BBall mile time record 4:36
First, I was not a college basketball player. I am going by what a few ball players on the team told me. They did run on a track. I know when the track was reserved for the basketball team. Second, from what the ball players told me, only about two to five guys each season made the standard. The remainder simply did the remedial training.
5:23 for a 6'8" forward
They track these, all someone has to do is contact the USC conditioning coach for basketball and they will know the record. I think Scalabrine went 5:45 and just remembers it wrong because they only did it once a yearl. Maybe he did 4:45
less ice wrote:
People on letsrun like to think they have some sort of talent that others dont have. A 4:45 mile pretty much requires no talent.
I played soccer and quit to do cross country and track my senior of high school. I ended up setting my school record in the mile (and i think i still have it 8 years later). I absolutely guarantee most of the kids i played soccer with at my school could have run faster than me had they done xc and track. There were probably 20 dudes in my graduating class (of 170 students) that could have been the schools best runner they just weren't running.
With basketball players some will be limited by how huge they are though.
that's not fast wrote:It's not surprising at all.
I ran faster in my early 40s, training less than 30 miles per week, with no other sports or exercise.
You think a young pro basketball player can't?
Have you seen him? He is near 7' and well above 200 pounds. He is the iceberg type of athlete you were talking about. Running a sub 5 minute mile is quite an accomplishment for his size.
JamesPardon wrote:
For what its worth, I've witnessed a lot of mile time trials performed by non-track/XC athletes, and while many simply use a track, a lot times this mile course ends up being 4 traffic cones in a large parking lot that can vary in distance. During these instances athletes are told they ran X:XX for the mile by their coaches, therefore they go on claiming that as their mile PR because that's what they were told, and its not like these athletes really do more than maybe a few mile time trials post high school in their entire lives ya know? Now to say all that, he is a professional athlete, so he very well could have done so. But, i just wanted to point out that he could also be claiming a false PR without intentionally lying.
Beat me to it. I had a conversation two years with my university's basketball coach about early-season conditioning. He told me the guys have to run X time and fastest guy ran Y time for a mile. If they miss the minimum they have to repeat it daily until they make it (dumb, I know). Knowing the players, I knew this wasn't possible but I wasn't looking for a fight (as I recall it was around 5:00 minimum or so and he claimed the best was around 4:20).
We use an off-campus track facility so I asked, "You drive them to the track every day until they make the time?" (This would take at least an hour a day with driving two ways, a warm up and the run).
He responded, "Nah, we just use four laps of the soccer field."
It takes about 5.5 laps of a soccer field to hit a mile.
Point; our players and many others probably have false PRs and don't know it. I don't think that makes them liars but it does make them wrong.
i've definitely witnessed sports players misjudging their running ability. I was finishing up a track workout and overheard a guy saying he was going to do a 1600m TT and how he could easily break 5 because he had done it on a treadmill. Well he ended up running 5:27 which is worlds away from 5 mins. he was a pretty big guy so i was still pretty impressed.
A 4:45 does require talent, whomever said it doesn't is really, really out of touch... Yea a 4:45 isn't like superb but there are a lot of people that couldn't sprint a 35.5 200m untrained.
Personally i find it hard to believe a 6'9" 230lb guy could run a 4:45, but he was a professional athlete so you never know for sure.
less ice wrote:
Under 4:20 and definitely not nonsense. I ranked towards the back of the soccer team in terms of speed/athleticism. People don't realize that most good athletes don't run track/distance. The most 'talented' runners at any given high school are not on the track team.
9sdfsda wrote:...Nonsense unless this record you set was 5++ minutes.
Only about 10 guys in my state ran sub 420 this year.
There is NO chance multiple guys, (nevermind 20) at your little school were faster than you.
Give yourself some credit, geez.
And I played fb for 2y and we did a 1600 (I think) time trial once a year and I clobbered everyone and I was no 4:20 guy just a very average 800 runner. And this was a big school with real athletes.
I took gym classes in high school, which had a lot of the top soccer and basketball players in them along with me. I was the fastest miler at 440 and the next best were two soccer players at 5 flat. There were other soccer and basketball players running around 530 and my high school had a real good soccer team. The top track guy always wins the mile TT unless a guy like Iverson shows up.
I remember people running 4 laps around a football field in Junior High, running like 5:30s and calling it a mile PR. Even know one kid (who actually did cross country for a year in middle school) claim that he ran a sub 6 mile in gym as a warmup because he ran 13 (or some number) of laps that fast and the gym teacher had said that many laps= a mile.
It was a hand timed 4:53.
Had never heard of nor saw this message board before a friend saw this thread. Interesting stuff, people and threads. All over the place.
Yes, I am the real Brian Scalpabrain. Ask me anything.
B. Scalpabrain wrote:
It was a hand timed 4:53.
Had never heard of nor saw this message board before a friend saw this thread. Interesting stuff, people and threads. All over the place.
Yes, I am the real Brian Scalpabrain. Ask me anything.
Brian Scalpabrain - do you know Brian Scalabrine? This thread is about him.
B. Scalpabrain wrote:
It was a hand timed 4:53.
Had never heard of nor saw this message board before a friend saw this thread. Interesting stuff, people and threads. All over the place.
Yes, I am the real Brian Scalpabrain. Ask me anything.
Did the timer start the clock a minute late?
Why did you say it was 4:45 before?
Hand timed, huh? wrote:
Did the timer start the clock a minute late?
Why did you say it was 4:45 before?
Timer hit go when I started.
It was into a 5.8 mph headwind.
B. Scalpabrain wrote:
Hand timed, huh? wrote:Did the timer start the clock a minute late?
Why did you say it was 4:45 before?
Timer hit go when I started.
It was into a 5.8 mph headwind.
Did you hand time the wind? Did the wind nearly scalp your brain off? Was it on a track and the wind moved perfectly in line with you? If not, why didn't you run it on a track? What did you use to measure the course? Can you post a picture of yourself holding your scalped brain to prove your identity?
Spencer Hawes, a 7 footer I believe broke 5:20 in a conditioning test while a freshman at University of Washington. It caught my attention when it was reported. I thought that was pretty good for a big guy.
I doubted before, but now that he has joined the thread, Mr. Scallopini has me convinced.
Hand timed, huh? wrote:
Did you hand time the wind? Did the wind nearly scalp your brain off? Was it on a track and the wind moved perfectly in line with you? If not, why didn't you run it on a track? What did you use to measure the course? Can you post a picture of yourself holding your scalped brain to prove your identity?
1. A few days before I ran this mile, I purchased an anemometer. I had my friend on his Specialized "Hardrock" bike (same one who hand timed the run) carry it the whole way. The 5.8 was an average.
2. No, but I am glad I shaved my head and my body hair before doing it for less drag
3. I didn't run it on the school track because it was being re-surfaced.
4. We (same friend and I along with an intern from the athletic department for additional verification and documentation) used an old-school wooden foot long ruler and the course over 11 hours, we measured out 5,280 feet.
5. I would post a pic, but I would need to get the image off my external hard drive (We didn't have cell phones with cameras back in the day).
Dan Marjerle ran a fast mile (or 1600) in a pre-season fitness test coming off of a season at CMU when he injured his ankle badly our sophomore year. Something around 4:30 - 4:40 I believe. He was around 6'6" and probably 220. He also walked on to the baseball team and got playing time.
Haha. Brian Scalabrine is jokingly referred to as the greatest basketball player ever. He's trash. Awkward, lanky, and really only a spot filler. He's only on because he was able to post thanks to being 6'9. Also, 230lbs for 6'9 isn't that much. There are guys that are under 6' and weigh 200lbs.
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