Posted: 2/8/2004 3:04:45 PM EDT
| About a year and a half ago I was 5'10 240lbs. Today I am 5'11 170. Back when I was badly overweight, I was running a high 10min mile. Today I was at the gym and decided to see how fast I could run a mile in. I busted out with a 6:59 mile and I think I could have done it even faster. Thought I would post this and let people know that if I can break a 7 min. mile, anybody can. |
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Congratulations on your (weight) loss Chub! (And I'm guessing that you're probably not real chunky any more, now that you've dropped 70 pounds.) If you were at the gym and ran a mile, did you do it on a treadmill? Or does your gym have an indoor track? Either way, sub-7:00 is cranking along pretty good. Bet if you trained for it, you'd pop one close to 6:00, say maybe 6:05-6:20. [:)] Edited to add: I hate doing treadmill runs, and indoor tracks are generally way too small for me to feel comfortable trying to do any sort of speedwork. |
| It was at the gym on a treadmill. I've decided that over the next three months I'm going to train myself up to running a 6:00 mile. Every Sunday I'm going to leave the treadmill on the highest setting for 30 more seconds. During the week I'm just going to train for conditioning. Hopefully this will work. |
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I ran a 7:10 mile in 11th grade. The only reason I ran that was because of this girl who was very well endowed(top and bottom) and was on the track team said don't stop, never stop you'll never get going again and slowed down to keep pace with me. I was like gahhhhh O K *mmmm boobies* When we finished I swore my heart and head were going to explode and I didn't catch my breath completely for at least 15 minutes. One of those hot but really sweet and genuinely nice girls. |
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Quoted: I ran a 7:10 mile in 11th grade. The only reason I ran that was because of this girl who was very well endowed(top and bottom) and was on the track team said don't stop, never stop you'll never get going again and slowed down to keep pace with me. I was like gahhhhh O K *mmmm boobies* When we finished I swore my heart and head were going to explode and I didn't catch my breath completely for at least 15 minutes. One of those hot but really sweet and genuinely nice girls. I know what you mean about running rack, er, track with the hot ladies. I know that they always slowed me down. Come to think of it I really only joined the team to watch the girls stretch. I sucked big time. |
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Quoted: It was at the gym on a treadmill. I've decided that over the next three months I'm going to train myself up to running a 6:00 mile. Every Sunday I'm going to leave the treadmill on the highest setting for 30 more seconds. During the week I'm just going to train for conditioning. Hopefully this will work. Three months isn't that much time to get down to a 6:00-minute mile, but it's certainly not out of the realm of the impossible. At my gym, the fastest the treadmills will go is 10.0 miles per hour which is a 6:00-minute mile. Are you planning to try for your 6:00-minute mile on the treadmill? Personally, it'd be hard for me to do that; I'd prefer following a fast friend around the local all-weather (Tartan or whatever rubberized surface) track. It works out to maintaining 1:30 per lap, and it's tough. But to get to that point, I think you'd need to run at least three or four times a week, mixing up longer runs, runs at your goal pace and intervals which are run at quicker-than-goal pace (hard to do on treadmills that are limited to 10.0 mph). Of course, that's just me being an armchair/Internet coach. YMMV. Best of luck. Don't forget to warm up before any sort of speed workout and always stretch and warm down after every run. [:)] Edited to add: If you're running and biking every day, that's excellent. Be sure that on those "easy" days that you genuinely run easy--enough that you can carry on a conversation. That'll let your legs recover from the harder days. Also, try to increase your easy day runs to 30 minutes minimum, 60 minutes max, and preferably on softer surfaces like dirt or, if you've got good foot/lower leg biomechanics, grass. Even elite milers do quite a bit of overdistance training because that helps build the base; it's not unusual for them to log 60 to 90 miles a week in the off-season. Speed training without a good base of mileage makes you more prone to injury (always a bad thing because it disrupts your training cycle, putting you back to square one). But of course, YMMV. |
| Try kicking the last 100m of each run. Run on a track if you can. Each day you run start kicking 10m earlier. Sooner than later you will be able to kick the last 2 laps on a 2 mile run at a 95-100% pace. Also mix up the workout like Kato suggested to better develop the slow and fast twitch muscles in your legs for your goal run time. |
| I run and bike everyday. My plan is to run 6 days at a slower pace for 20-30 minutes so I can work on breathing and maintaining my "wind." I also bike for 15-20 minutes a day so that adds some more cardio. The 7th day will be the day in which I run for time. The other day I kept the treadmill on a 8.5mph which equates to a 7:03 mile. Then with about 30 seconds to go I bumped it up in speed and went as quick as the treadmill would go. I think I could have gone even longer on the faster setting though, so at the end of every week, I'm going to try and stay on the highest setting for 30 more seconds. Don't really know if this will work for me, but I like challenging myself, so it should be interesting. |
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Quoted: Kick 2 laps at 100%?!?!?!? You must be slower than Christmas if you can go 100% for 2 laps straight. |
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I turned 7:13 for 1 mile and 11:21 @ 1.5 miles yesterday. (a personal best since I got out of the service some 8 years ago) I'll probably be going back into the NG, and a PT test will be required of me. I'm well under the maximum time for my age group. I'd like to see where I actually stand for an all out attempt. good job regardless getting down in weight. 10 months ago I was at least 5'11"/230 I'm now down to 188 as of yesterday. Reduced carbs and exercise are the key. |