Is there a limit to the human body in the mile.?

Yes

3:10

somewhere around 3flat. If a 400 can be run in 43, then....

what's the downhill record? Something like 3:20 maybe?

I think every human has there own individual limit...a limit that no one has or ever will reach.

hmm then if a guy can run 100m in 9.8 then... ???

No...the adaptability of the human body allows it to be infinitely capable of improvement. I find it ridiculous to think that there is a certain and complete limit to the progress of speed and fitness. If someone can run 3:00 for the mile, for example...why can't someone run 2:59.99999?

in theory maybe, but you and i both know that's not true. if it were then we would wind up with someone being able to run the mile in .0000000001 seconds (and then FASTER!). the limit is met when the fastest person ever runs his fastest race ever. and then nobody will run faster. So if the fastest human runs a 3:00.0 and can't go any faster than nobody will go 2:59.999999999...

there is indeed a limit but who's to say what it is. It can't be much faster than about 50 seconds per lap in my opinion.

With or without steroids?

3:27 Queens Street Mile in the 80's

If someone was allowed to be pumped full of steroids, and allowed to run in races, how fast do you think they could go? We let the guy use the drugs, set up a race for him, and let the beast go at it, I say he hits about 329 for full mile and dies at the line.

Technicaly the limit is how fast the fastest person can run the hundred in 9.7 for a full mile.

Isn't the 200m record better than the 100m??

would being shot out of a canon count?

Yes, it is the 200m WR is at a faster pace than the 100m WR.

19.32/2~9.66

keep in mind that just because someone can always run faster doesn't mean that there can't be a set limit.

There may very well be a limit to all humans alive today. But that might not be the same limit for humans born 10,000 years from now. Nor will their limit be the same for humans born 10,000 years after them.

Undoubtedly, humans will continue to improve and adapt (compare today's athletes to those in the old grainy 1936 Berlin Olympic Games). Too, we do not yet know the limit of human evolution. It would be naive to assume we are it.

So far the answer to your question is 3:43.

why can't they just improve the accuracy of timing? to the thousanth or millionth of a second. that way we will always keep setting WR's and they will be real. i think that would be really good for t&f.