My best was 5:30 I think. I was the seventh fastest on the track team.jim wrote:I said 3 hours was too long because you hit a wall. I didn't realize you were diabetic, you can hit that wall and not be diabetic and that's usually because you haven't trained your body yet and it doesn't want to kick over and start burning fat, so when the sugars are gone you just hit a wall.
dreamer, when you say you used to run a mile in just over 5 minutes do you mean like 7? Because if you are talking about low 5's that's pretty impressive. My son broke 5 his Soph. year and that was a pretty big deal on the team. They had these sub-5 t-shirts they gave away to motivate kids, that was kind of the magic time (although the really good runners were in the 4:30's.) When I was younger the fastest I ever did for a long run was a 2:35 1/2 mile. Had I continued to run another 1/2 mile that day, my mile time would have been around 22:35 because I spent the next 20 minutes throwing up. And I'm not kidding, we had to break 2:35 for some fitness test in football in HS and I barely got it and I really did vomit within 10 seconds of crossing the line. Had I missed that time I was supposed to have to run it again the next morning at 6am, and I'm pretty sure I just would have quit because that was awful.
I didn't even get to run at regionals because they only let the top two run. I was something in high school until I started getting knee injuries. Great football player, great baseball player, I went to state for discus. Then came the knee injuries. I made the football team in college but more injuries and I never saw a bit of playing time. By the middle of college I realized I was busting my ass for something I'd never get to play and quit. I stayed in a good shape for a little while after that but by the end of college the fat started packing on and here we are 10 years later and I look like a land whale. Looking back I'm seriously pissed at not staying in shape, but it is what it is and now I gotta get back in shape. I'll never run a mile any where near that again. I know it, but if I can walk one in 15 minutes by spring I'd be pretty damn happy. I attribute me being a good athlete as a young man to being a farm boy. Bucking bales all summer, and chopping wood all winter makes you pretty damn tough. I also started lifting and training for football when I was in the sixth grade. That was all so long ago though.
