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If you are reasonably healthy, how fast should you be able to run a mile?
Posted on 1/27/15 at 1:02 pm
Posted on 1/27/15 at 1:02 pm
Is 8-10 minutes good for the first mile? How about total cumulative time for 2, 3 and 4 miles?
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Posted on 1/27/15 at 1:03 pm to Street Hawk
I can run a mile in 3 minutes
Posted on 1/27/15 at 1:04 pm to Street Hawk
8 minutes is relatively easy if you are in decent shape. When you are getting over the one to 2 mile mark I would say a decent time is 10 minutes per mile for however many more miles you are able to go.
Posted on 1/27/15 at 1:04 pm to Street Hawk
8 minutes a mile is hard for me to maintain for more than 3-4 miles. They usually stretch to 10 after that. But if you're in running shape it isn't hard to do that for a few miles. And it is pretty easy to get there if you're not. It is the wall you hit around 3.5 miles when you're working up to distance that gets you.
Posted on 1/27/15 at 1:05 pm to Street Hawk
8min mile should be easy
Posted on 1/27/15 at 1:05 pm to Street Hawk
If you're pretty muscular, 8-10 minute mile is a good pace.
If you're skinny, 6-8 minute mile.
If you're skinny, 6-8 minute mile.
Posted on 1/27/15 at 1:05 pm to Street Hawk
Mile & a half in 11 mins 
Posted on 1/27/15 at 1:05 pm to Street Hawk
meh, "reasonably healthy" is a broad term. plenty of fatties are "reasonably healthy"
i finished a half marathon at a 9:08 pace. i was thrilled.
i finished a half marathon at a 9:08 pace. i was thrilled.
This post was edited on 1/27/15 at 1:07 pm
Posted on 1/27/15 at 1:06 pm to Street Hawk
i'm in terrible shape and can do better than that
Posted on 1/27/15 at 1:06 pm to Street Hawk
OT answer- sub 4
IRL answer - 7 minute mile
IRL answer - 7 minute mile
This post was edited on 1/27/15 at 1:07 pm
Posted on 1/27/15 at 1:06 pm to Street Hawk
For clarity, health has nothing to do with speed (see Jim Fixx). Good shape, aerobically able bodied and age are factors.
Posted on 1/27/15 at 1:06 pm to Street Hawk
you can be perfectly healthy without being in shape.
if you don't ever do any cardio exercise, it might take you 12-14 mins for a mile. total time for 4 miles could be up to an hour.
if you're an adult male in good shape, to me you should be able to get a mile in 8 mins. 4 miles in maybe 40 mins. more than that and you're not in good shape.
if you don't ever do any cardio exercise, it might take you 12-14 mins for a mile. total time for 4 miles could be up to an hour.
if you're an adult male in good shape, to me you should be able to get a mile in 8 mins. 4 miles in maybe 40 mins. more than that and you're not in good shape.
Posted on 1/27/15 at 1:07 pm to Street Hawk
I can run the mile in 2.88 minutes.
Posted on 1/27/15 at 1:08 pm to Displaced
quote:
meh, "reasonably healthy" is a broad term. plenty of fatties are "reasonably healthy"
Let's just say you are not fat or skinny or built like a football player....no extremes. You are an average Joe of average height and weight.
Posted on 1/27/15 at 1:08 pm to Street Hawk
It depends on several factors. Can you run a mile now? Can you run 3 miles now? If you can run 3-5 miles now (on a regular basis) then you can do a 7-8 minute mile (if only doing one mile). If you run 3-5 miles on a regular basis then an 8-10 minute mile pace is fairly common. People that run marathons can do 8-10 mile pace for the entire race (and the ballers can go sub 7 minute pace).
Posted on 1/27/15 at 1:09 pm to Street Hawk
Yes, 8-10 minutes is good for a reasonably healthy person.
If you want to be an athlete, you need to have a faster time.
In terms of long distance, I start slower than I end. I have a very hard time running better than a 10 minute first mile, but I routinely finish 5ks around the 26 minute mark.
If you want to be an athlete, you need to have a faster time.
In terms of long distance, I start slower than I end. I have a very hard time running better than a 10 minute first mile, but I routinely finish 5ks around the 26 minute mark.
Posted on 1/27/15 at 1:10 pm to Street Hawk
sub10 if you're in any really shape 8;45
Posted on 1/27/15 at 1:12 pm to Street Hawk
Overall winner in 2015 Louisiana Marathon ran on a 7:04 minutes-per-mile pace. I've surpassed that on one mile sprints, but it's a pretty quick pace--especially to maintain over 26.2 miles.
Posted on 1/27/15 at 1:12 pm to Street Hawk
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Is 8-10 minutes good for the first mile?
For males, 7 1/2 to 8 minutes for a casual runner is a very competent time. I would consider anyone "fast" (not track fast, not athletic fast, but just casual "fast") who is running a mile under, say, 6 1/2 minutes. Females, add about 30 seconds to a minute for comparable times.
For cumulative - that's going to vary widely - endurance running is largely a factor of conditioning, tempered by genetics (at least until you get to the elite long-distance runners, which must have both), while raw speed tends to be mainly genetic.
So, for 2 miles, anything under 14 minutes is starting to be casual "fast", for 5k (3.1 miles) that line is probably closer to 24 minutes (29 for females) - and the range starts to expand quite a bit after that.
Posted on 1/27/15 at 1:14 pm to Street Hawk
if you can run a mile without keeling over or stopping to walk you are in relatively decent shape. amazing the number of people who cannot do this.
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