running one mile (1.6k)

easy peasy. what's the fastest ilxor mile (or 1600m)?

I can break 5:15 now but in my glory days it was a diff story.

haha I had to poll this because I honestly have NO IDEA whether it'll be dozens of posters going "umm a mile is really short and easy, wtf" or dozens of posters going "umm you think I have tried recently enough to even know?"

I probably should have chosen a thread title more likely to bring in those posters who could not care less about running one mile

dozens of posters going "umm you think I have tried recently enough to even know?"

please consider the finally whiskey + cigarettes option to include "I have no idea or opinion whatsoever and have not tried anything remotely like that in ages"

I think I probably fall into the "foot/joint/leg issues prevent me from running, but I could do an equivalent" category, but I'm curious what the equivalent is.

guess id say easy peasy but see ya in more like 7:30ish~

easy but i don't really time myself. i know i can run four or five miles and still feel pretty good afterward, but i'm not going for speed.

I don't think I would survive putting on running shoes.

could do this but i would probably vomit afterwards. In terrible physical condition but I'm young, tall and slim so can still run a bit.

I'd have to be carried home after like two blocks, but I could bike some "equivalent" amount so that's all right.

cycling equivalent = 4 miles

I'm in the best shape of my life, but I'd still be dying afterward. Stupid asthma.

xpost but that would have to be with no coasting...

But on the flat? Totally do-able.

Back in my sprinting days I jogged a 5:45 mile and was barely winded. I miss those days a lot.

oh shit looking at the cycling equivalent I voted for the wrong joint pain option, I can totally bike 4 miles in 10 minutes

could prob do it but be dying afterward.

back in high school, we had to run 2.4 km and i could do it in abt 13 minutes, but hs was a fair few years now and even though i haven't really changed at all in terms of height/build, i seriously doubt i still have the stamina.

I can run a mile and probably wouldn't be winded by it, I might be swearing a little if my knee decided to act up. GF is trying to persuade me to come and do 5 on the treadmill after I put her through a little too much climbing on the bike in the Pyrenees.

Although I cannot even begin to guess at the last time I rode even 2 miles without stopping, like possibly not in 20 years -- thank u shittily timed stoplights.

I am REALLY FUCKING PROUD of my just-under-nine-minutes mile bcz until I was like 17 it was always 12+ minutes.

maybe the best way to think about equivalents is whether your answer is, like ... "sure, I could easily run a mile if it weren't for my stupid knee/ankle/whatever"

i never got my mile under 7 mins

I think my best mile time was something like 6:48 -- I was 11 and never matched it again (although it was cross-country and thus maybe not exactly a mile.)

I still remember the epiphany moment of that mile; I hadn't tried very hard and I still smoked everyone in class who wasn't a distance runner. Since I was a mediocre sprinter at best, I started thinking "maybe I should be running longer distances, I know I could go faster than this if I actually exerted myself..."

Then I remembered that I hated running long distances. But still, maybe I would have done much better had I tried competing in races longer than 400m.

"I can break 5:15 now but in my glory days it was a diff story."

Let's race, Shasta. I've never hit 5:15 (a little under 6 is pretty common) but I'm always ahead of most of the people I run with and I imagine I could go faster if I had someone in front of me as a rabbit.

I'll race you Alex! Meet you at Kezar after work. Winner buys pints.

could do this but i would probably vomit afterwards. In terrible physical condition but I'm young, tall and slim so can still run a bit.

were it not for fucking up my knee a couple of years ago I would probably be still running

xxp Haha you're on, but not today (I probably can't hit 10 minutes with Chuck Taylors and Levis on.)

er... loser buys pints, otherwise most boring race ever.

The "more like 10" option, although more like 11 is more like it. I've just started jogging 3-4 times a week after about 5 years of inertia. I've got my 2.5 mile circuit down to 26 minutes over the last couple of days. I ain't pushin' it, though, so that's def not my top speed or anything. I just focus on continuing to run.

xp Hah our report back to the thread would have been dull. "We uh beat uh 20:15. . ."

I use 15 minutes as a baseline for a walked mile but I have really no idea about what my timing would be or how I should pace running a mile. Perhaps I will go to the gym later and try and find out.

when i first started running regularly, a mile was the point at which i'd be so winded i had to walk for a bit - now i find it pretty easy and am never winded at all by then. don't time myself though. i tend to run 8-8.5k in 45-60mins, but obv it was just a mile i could go a bit faster.

I think you can count that as "I do that five times a day"

easy peasy, my standard run of late is ~4 miles in just over half an hour

I'm comfortable running 3-4 miles at around a 10-10:30 min/mile pace, so if it's just one mile, I bet I could hit 9 minutes. This year's goal is to run a 10k in an hour by October.

There is no such thing as a decent-timed mile without reference to a specific person.

Voted "sure, but winded" and am curious now. Will try tonight; might be too ashamed or dead to post

voted for the first option, but I've been running 7 miles every other day lately. I'm not sure how fast I could sprint a mile today, but I did 6 minutes on a treadmill a few years ago.

I vividly remember not being able to run a mile in jr. high without walking part of the way, so I can totally relate to the other votes though.

I was in x-country in high school for a year, but I was the very worst person on the team. By a long shot. So my best mile was something like 5:35. I don't think I've run a mile since I quit after 9th grade, but I'm still betting I could run a 7 minute mile or better. At a 7 minute pace I'd be exhausted afterward, but I think I could probably run a 9 minute pace fairly easily.

i voted "winded," but it's a hopeful/optimistic vote. i walk a lot and i'm sort of moderately fit, but my brief flirtation with regular running ended somewhere around the turn of the century. i'm pretty sure i could run a mile, just not sure how long it would take.

If the question were "could you dance for a mile" the answer would be easy peasy, but I hate running and timing myself is a recipe for hating that activity. Biking also pretty peasy.

Now I want to dance for a mile!

Laurel you have probably danced a marathon, no??

(btw i think running is generally a miserable experience. i love walking and hiking snf i like cycling, but running always felt like punishment.)

"and", not snf. i wasn't crying.

I was wondering. Hiking Saturday Night Fever? What's that?

i thought it was shrthnd 4 "sho nuf"

Easy peasy option for me. Haven't done a timed mile for a looooong time, but have done half-marathons in sub-1:20.

:O

80 seconds for thirteen miles is hardcore

A 9-minute mile is jogging pace, it's not fast. Cycling 4 miles in 9 minutes means going at nearly 27mph - that's actually VERY tough.

one man's not very fast is another man's peak

I think I could bike 4 mi in 10 mins. The distance isn't the problem, but i'm used to biking in an urban/residential environment so i've never gotten the chance to do this at speed. Never occurred to me to do it on a recomb.bike either.

good call NB+S, I was using the relative ratios from tritahlons as a standard, but effortwise the factor is closer to 3.

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Voted "dying afterward." I could do it, I think, but lord know I ain't gonna do it for fun.

Perhaps if I were unwittingly caught in the middle of an international conspiracy involving stolen diamonds, an exiled Nazi war criminal, and a rogue government agent.

http://kevinchiou.com/30minuteslate/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/2516237838_b9d78fb538_o.jpg

(Which Julia got from netflix yesterday because I mentioned it recently. Netfilx is great like that. We'll watch it this weekend.)

I can probably do about a 7-8 minute mile these days on foot. But I bike back and forth to work every day, 8.25 miles each way.

(I'm white, btw.)

Yeah I know what you mean, my white brother.

I'm around 7:30 in my adult life running a mile. I have no idea how fast I could ran as a kid/teenager, because I always hated running and didn't really try.

I was on the track team until I took up smoking.

I was on the smoking team until I took up track.

Actually, since I've been GPS tracking my runs (since December 2007), I ran a 6:44 mile on June 28, 2008. Haven't gotten under 7 min since then.

GPS tracks you running? That's some spooky Enemy Of The State shit.

If I don't measure it, how do I know if I'm getting better or how far I've come???

Joking.

i use a watch and measure distances with gmap pedometer. i wonder how they did it before computers??

I would get behind the CIA if I could call them up and have them tell me how far and at what pace I ran today. I know they have the satellite data.

A year and a bit ago I could do 2.7 miles in 18-21 minutes without much bother. Smoked a lotless then,but exercised a lot less too.

i wonder how they did it before computers??

My dad and I used to run together when I was a kid. We did it by first measuring out a course using the car's odometer, then timing ourselves running that course.

going for the first option but it's not like i don't feel it after

We did it by first measuring out a course using the car's odometer, then timing ourselves running that course.

Or even a piece of thread on a road map.

My knees are fuxored now, but in my day I did a 3-mile road run in 18 minutes once, so I'm guessing I could've gotten a mile down to 5:30-ish? So, given that I'm older and heavier yet still work out on an elliptical, the "foot/joint/leg issues prevent me from running, but I could do an equivalent" option, then.

lol @ fats u disgust the world

5x a day

Guys I seriously have a genuine goal now of dancing for an entire mile.

I just have to figure out a route that is a mile away & not on main traffic roads.

And no lapsing into skipping when you run out of moves! Everyone tries that. You can't get away with it here.

kenan who do you take me for? 9_9

You're right. That was insulting. I'm sorry.

I was in x-country in high school for a year, but I was the very worst person on the team. By a long shot.

Ha, me too, but I'm sure I was much worse than you. I used to finish the 5k in 27 min. Nothing like getting lapped on a 1.5 mile track. Really, I don't know why they let me put on a uniform. I'm actually a bit faster 10 years later.

I'm one of those freaky runner guys you all probably see from time to time...but I like it, and it seems to keep me out of trouble...

I have just ended my glorious running career (2 races in 2 years) with a not-so respectable (per my expectations) 5k in 24m 50s. shit is so boring and painful. So I could do the mile in 9 but would be grumbling all the way.

My regular run up to 1 year ago was 4 miles in 28 mins i.e 4 consec 7 min miles. I am not running at the moment for medical reasons, but I aim to get back to that level by the end of the year if I can.

why wd u do this? go play a sport u sociopaths

running = a sport, and you don't have to do it alone...

lord, cozwn, if I had to schedule with other people in order to get some exercise I'd probably wind up being removed from my house with a forklift

I don't love running (jacks up your legs!) and I'm not any good at it (I am just above "dying afterward" and I've been running a mile every other morning for the past few months!), but it's convenient having an exercise option that doesn't require any more setup than, like, putting on different shoes and walking downstairs

"lord, cozwn, if I had to schedule with other people in order to get some exercise I'd probably wind up being removed from my house with a forklift"

Great thing about basketball is that you don't really need to schedule anything.

Technically biking can be just about as easy unless you want to make it really hard and deck your shit out in spandex and clipless pedals.

i don't think the point of exercise is to enjoy it - it seems obvious that if it's not hurting, it's not working

plus as much as i enjoy playing tennis i'm pretty sure running does more for my fitness. real exercise isn't a social thing b/c you're sweating and out of breath and can't talk - plus i like to go at the pace that suits me

i guess i enjoy exercise that gets me sweating and out of breath...i think you're setting up a false dialectic there lex....

plus "hurting" in terms of intense physical pain means you're probably injuring a joint of a muscle and that's not going to help your fitness

but real effort, real exertion yeah, i think that's what you meant

but i hate the "no pain no gain" thing, cuz that's too simple to me

haha if there were a nearby place I could play pick-up basketball with people on my level (i.e., 10-year-olds), I would consider it. biking-wise I'm actually not far from a long bike route by the river, but my bike was stolen and I don't have anyplace safer than the street to put it.

I think there might be legal and safety issues, though, with any attempt on my part to play pick-up ball with 10-year-olds

The point of exercise is just to get fit, but that doesn't mean you can't enjoy it in the process. I hate running but love cycling. And as for the fantasy world where I could snowboard to work...

i don't think the point of exercise is to enjoy it - it seems obvious that if it's not hurting, it's not working

― lex pretend, Friday, July 17, 2009 10:54 AM (10 minutes ago)

masochism much? exercise is totally fun wtf, esp recreational stuff like surfing, hiking, skating, wakeboarding.

uh I think I am of the "the best exercise is the one you'll bother doing" camp -- I don't have the discipline to go be no-pain no-gain masochistic about any exercise I don't at least partly enjoy doing

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"are you kidding me? I do that like five times a day"

You run a mile five times a day? What the hell kind of life is this?

i don't think the point of exercise is to enjoy it - it seems obvious that if it's not hurting, it's not working

see i'm in great shape but this is why i'd much rather grab pickup basketball at the gym or play tennis or badminton, all of which can wipe me out nicely if i can find people who also play well

wow, results seem so moderate and reasonable