Britney Spears in new Yoga video says she ran the 100-meter yard dash in 6.8 seconds (did it in 6-flat back in high school)

She is saying that she has slowed a bit so she has to be thinking it is her total time.

Gfuvv wrote:

Armstronglivs wrote:

You mean at least double that distance? But not a full 100 - or that's the time she would have given. Must be a distance race for a yoga buff. Or you.

Idiot. Read the posts.

And I am sure you couldn't sprint 100 metres to save your life.

The posts don't say how far she ran. And nor do you. So you are guessing, too. But it won't have been a 100m.

I'll start off by saying I support Britney Spears. Sure she acted dumb as a box of rocks when she was younger, but I never got the impression she was a bad person. I wish her luck in all her endeavors.

That being said, I'm flabbergasted how many people are trying to make excuses for her 6.8 speed. She made up a ridiculous number and threw it out there without realizing how ridiculous it was. It is not meters per second. She didn't whip out a calculater to do the math on her total time.

6.8 is a 14.7 100, I doubt she could do that.

14.7 for 100m is a sub 4 mile pace/15.2 MPH. Even for 100m thats fast for an average heavier built person.

Its more likely if not a made up number it was 6.8 MPH which gives her a 30s+ 100m time.

Muscle is an advantage in sprints. She looks in good shape and her type of dancing exercises fast twitch fibres so I wouldn’t bet my life that she couldn’t do it. Looking at her build, I do believe she has the potential to run a sub 15s 100m dash, I think a good amount of naturally athletic women under 40 could train to do it.. However, I don’t believe she could run a legitimate sub 15 right now, I do think she is confused with her numbers and god only knows what she thought she meant by 6.8 speed. A 6.8 second 40m dash? Probably.

You're all assuming she's talking about foot speed, but she's clearly talking about leg speed.

She probably has a watch which displays MPH and she just repeated what the watch said was her highest MPH. Obviously, she could hit 6.8 MPH which is equivalent to eight minutes, 49 seconds, per mile. Occasionally, I measure my runs using Map My Tracks which shows activity speed in MPH.

Britney Spears and the Hollywood elite = weakness. She is an illiterate crackpot that can't distinguish between a meter and a yard.

I can't believe how much LRC is going out of their way to avoid giving BS her due.

She just magically had an "MPH" watch 20+ years ago in HS?? Where this "6 speed" would be like the slowest time in the class (except for super fatties)?

Lots of people say stuff like this.

Even people who run daily!

Alternatively, 100 meter yards maybe is an areal measure meaning she ran in a square (NB: of course a circle would minimize perimeter, but not everyone is that sophisticated). Like run 10m, turn 90 degrees, 10y, turn 90, 10m, turn 90, 10y (you don't need to turn 90 at the end).

I can remember doing these kind of runs in high school. And baseball is another example.

What HS did she attend? wrote:

Alternatively, 100 meter yards maybe is an areal measure meaning she ran in a square (NB: of course a circle would minimize perimeter, but not everyone is that sophisticated). Like run 10m, turn 90 degrees, 10y, turn 90, 10m, turn 90, 10y (you don't need to turn 90 at the end).

I can remember doing these kind of runs in high school. And baseball is another example.

If it were a circle, she'd call it 91 circular meters or something.

meter-yards = "meters" x "yards", clearly it's meant as a rectangle

And it should fit outside her house better.

Most plausible.

She is not talking about speed because she makes reference to 6.0 being better/faster than 6.8.

She grew up in football country I think. As such, the “times” that most people care about or know about are 40 yard sprint times. I’m guessing she was popular with and friends with football players. Possibly a cheerleader. I’ll bet they timed her for fun and 6.0 seems like a very plausible time for her.

I am going to go on a limb here and say I believe her. let's be real there are a few super star celebrities. I know both Jared Leto and Billy Crudup broke 4:00 in the mile. Leto did it in Prefontaine and Crudup cracked the barrier in Without Limits. I am willing to bet she ran 6.0 in Yoga pants in her helicopter.

Mentally ill wrote:

Wonder what happens to some young celebrity women that makes them snap?

Cocaine.

Lots of Cocaine.

Brit was made for the pole... it’s never too late

Britney replied to all the hate on this thread with ‘’Those running geeks need to lighten up. It’s running not rocket surgery!’ M

Don't worry Bolt, she ain't that fast wrote:

What HS did she attend? wrote:

Alternatively, 100 meter yards maybe is an areal measure meaning she ran in a square (NB: of course a circle would minimize perimeter, but not everyone is that sophisticated). Like run 10m, turn 90 degrees, 10y, turn 90, 10m, turn 90, 10y (you don't need to turn 90 at the end).

I can remember doing these kind of runs in high school. And baseball is another example.

If it were a circle, she'd call it 91 circular meters or something.

meter-yards = "meters" x "yards", clearly it's meant as a rectangle

And it should fit outside her house better.

I can't believe how obsessed this thread is with giving meaning to the emanations of a celeb in a promo Instagram gig. She could have said Yoga allowed her to high jump at 3.7 height for all I care.