re: Runner looks to become 4th Louisianian to break a 4 minute mile

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I don't consider it history when you're the 4th person to do something

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That's something a hippie would say.

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Runner looks to become 4th Louisianian to break a 4 minute mile

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Is this suppose to be difficult. I'm not a runner and without really trying I run a 7 min mile pace on my first two miles out of a 10 mile run.



Maybe I should go all out and try to do this.

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Daniel Lincoln

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Don't think Dan did it, at least for a true mile, not converted.

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Is this suppose to be difficult.

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Maybe I should go all out and try to do this.

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You just go and do that

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Sub 4 minute mile is so absurd.

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Exactly.

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The four minute mile has become a litmus test to the growing strength of American distance running. Running four laps in 60 seconds a piece has been done by just over 396 Americans in the past fifty years. Sometime this spring, we will hit 400 Americans who have broke four minutes for the mile!

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America's Sub-4:00 Fraternity, The Quest To "Break Four" Still Inspires

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The excitement builds as the total number of American milers who have broken 4:00 closes in on 400 - a total that will likely be surpassed sometime prior to Mother's Day. But it wasn't always that way. After Bannister's groundbreaking mile in the spring of 1954, it was over three years until the first American [Cal's Don Bowden - T&FN's #1] turned the trick. By the 10th anniversary of Bannister's feat, only 9 Americans had broken 4:00. Slowly, the pace of the American onslaught on 4:00 gradually rose, but ultimately plateaued. And for decades roughly 6 new American milers entered the sub-4:00 club each year. By the 20th anniversary of Bannister's feat, 69 American milers had dipped under 4:00; by the 30th anniversary, 133 had done so; by the 40th anniversary, 196 U.S. milers had broken the barrier; and by the 50th anniversary, the total number of American milers under 4:00 had risen to 259. But since the 50th anniversary of Bannister's legendary mile, there has been an explosion of elite miling in the U.S. Since then - not quite 9 years - 138 new American sub-4:00 milers as of this writing - over 15 new members per year - have been added to this exclusive list. In 2012 - last year alone - 23 new American milers joined the ranks of American milers who had broken four.

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Is this suppose to be difficult. I'm not a runner and without really trying I run a 7 min mile pace on my first two miles out of a 10 mile run.

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First of all, you ran 10 miles, so by default you're a runner and you were clearly trying since running 10 miles is like 100% effort, you didn't accidentally run 10 miles.

Second of all you are talking about shaving over 3 minutes off of that time, that's A LOT of time

I run two miles at a sub 5 pace and cant come remotely close to breaking 4 from where I am. Does that answer your question?

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So you're not a runner, but know your average mile split for the first two miles on a 10 mile run? Something doesn't add up here man

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I use the app map my run.

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First of all, you ran 10 miles, so by default you're a runner and you were clearly trying since running 10 miles is like 100% effort, you didn't accidentally run 10 miles.

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No, I'm not a runner. I'm 6"2' and 220, not exactly a runners build. Training for tough mudder. Took me awhile to get to 10 miles.

I also do interval training. Sprint for 45 seconds and then walk for 45 seconds then run again for 4 miles. That is hard as hell. I'll do the math and see what my pace is here compared to the 4 min,mile.

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More than 1,000 people have broken a 4 minute mile. I am sure there is at least one OT'er that has done it backwards.

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Psh, I can speed walk it.

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A 4 minute mile is the equivalent of running 44 40 yard dashes at 5.45 seconds each. That's impressive.

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Yeah, I can't do that.