My niece, a pudgy girl who smokes, told me that she ran one 6 minute mile at the health club earlier in the week. I tried to explain to her that she ran a 10 minute mile, but she just stared at me blankly.
My niece, a pudgy girl who smokes, told me that she ran one 6 minute mile at the health club earlier in the week. I tried to explain to her that she ran a 10 minute mile, but she just stared at me blankly.
MeHereYouWhere?! wrote:
40 seconds
most likely answer so far...
Correct wrote:
My niece, a pudgy girl who smokes, told me that she ran one 6 minute mile at the health club earlier in the week. I tried to explain to her that she ran a 10 minute mile, but she just stared at me blankly.
Well of course she stared at you blankly, a 6 minute mile, a 6 minute kilometer?? You're just being pedantic.
soooooooooooo what happened?????????????
You found out the hard way that you work with the legendary Jason Rexing.
We found out the hard way that he's a mere shell of his former greatness.
2 min 45 seconds.
what I think wrote:
1/10. Treadmills don't usually go up to 12 mph.
I used to belong to a gym that had treadmills that went up to 12 mph. Not that I could hold that pace for very long.
In trainers, looking relaxed, with an airplane on the 'mill breaking the wind resistance for him, in vaporfly 4%s, with some D2 girls cheering him on?
2 minutes.
Something to whet your appetite until the OP gives us the deets:
faa wrote:
Yea but can the airplane take off at that pace?
Yes, if it is solar powered or some sh*t.
Correct wrote:
My niece, a pudgy girl who smokes, told me that she ran one 6 minute mile at the health club earlier in the week. I tried to explain to her that she ran a 10 minute mile, but she just stared at me blankly.
My GP’s nurse doesn’t know the difference either. She does triathlons and marathons, and while she isn’t fast, she does train for them and a 4-hour marathon finish for a tiny 60+ yo isn’t bad. I remember her asking me when I was recovering from surgery how my first run went. When I said I only jogged a couple of 10-minute miles she was aghast. “You can’t jump in at full speed like that!” I realized she had understood it to be 10mph and I tried to explain the difference but got a blank look, too.
Here I’d normally go into a rant on the abysmal state of our education system.
I need to know the guy's age and what other sport he plays but I doubt he made it a quarter.
OP, this has marinated long enough!
It always amazes me what people, who don't know the sport, claim they have run. My daughter's friend's father said he ran "1:46 or 47" in HS during the 60's. If he told me he had run 1:56, I would have believed him and been impressed.
Along with what Wejo said...from the original post:
"He's not at all a runner, although he still plays another sport competitively and it's my understanding that he's quite good at it (went to Worlds last year I believe). "
I'm guessing the sport is something like darts or kickball or some other "sport" like that. This is why I originally said 40 seconds and am sticking to it.
I ran a 28 flat 10 k without training (on the track in trainers), so I'm pretty sure the average person can run for 30 minutes at 5 flat pace.
I don't understand what is so confusing about 10 minute mile (aka one mile in 10 minutes) and 10 miles per hour. Do people not know how many minutes are in an hour? Truly embarrassing. Don't even get me started on people and maps/directions.
400 meters
A couple of random true stories from real life guys I've worked with. Anecdotes may not reflect the general population, but just saying...
A) My company did a "corporate challenge" type event. One of the guys who signed up was maybe a year or two out of school and took second place. Pace right under 5:00, for 3.x miles. I can't recall the exact details. Anyway, I made a point to chat with him at the after party and was shocked when to told me that he never runs -- but was a very competitive cross country skier in college. So yeah, that can happen...
B) Another guy was an ex-cornerback from a Big 10 school -- crazy talented all-around athlete -- who would jump on the treadmill three times a week hit the 10MPH button, and run five miles -- right out of the gate, with no warm up or ramp up whatsoever. So as for whether someone could "warm up" at 10MPH? Sounds implausible but that's effectively what this guy used to do. That said, I'm not sure how fast he could have run 6 miles. Probably not in 30m. By the time I met him he simply always, and only, ran 6 minute miles.
I want to know what sport he went to Worlds in. Why would he mention that but not tell us what sport?
So tell us that .
No way the guy made it a minute.
Wejo and Rojo,
I'm calling for this thread to be deleted if we don't have an answer from the OP by 3pm!