Run a 6 min mile

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  • ThickMcRunFast
    ThickMcRunFast Posts: 22,511 Member
    edited December 2015
    Another vote for your parent's smoking having nothing to do with it - my whole family chain smoked. I haven't done a mile test in a while, but can regularly knock out 400m intervals at a sub 6 pace. 5k would probably be somewhere in the 18-20 range, depending on how much I cared about it (though ick, 5ks. I'd rather run 50k)- and I don't even sniff 'elite'.

    Though I know some people who will never crack 20 for a 5k. Or 5:00 for a marathon. They've been running for years, but seem resistant to change (even with a coach and 50+ miles a week).

    I wonder if OP will ever come back and clarify what he wants to do.

    eta: the person I know who was 'resistant to getting faster' was able to clock a single mile in the 7s, so yeah, that whole 'one 6 minute mile' vs. '6 min mile pace' are totally different things.
  • 1989lukemyers
    1989lukemyers Posts: 158 Member
    Wow didn't expect that many thanks for all you're comments... To summarise I'm looking at running a mile and a half in 9 minutes which I need to be performing in few months time :/ and longer term goal to run a 5k in 18 minutes... I've just got back from a two miler and done it in 14 minutes so that's 7 min a mile so that's 10.5 for a mile and half so I need to loss 90 seconds..... So wants the best work out I can do to get me my short term and long term goals

    Right now I'm doing this

    Monday- short run 2-3 miles at fast pace Wednesday- long run 6-8 slow pace
    Friday- short run 2-3 miles fast pace

    And also weight train four times a week also any tips on how to recover quicker as well be helpful

    Also many thanks again have a ton of inform in front of me so probably have the answers I'm looking for
  • robertw486
    robertw486 Posts: 2,401 Member
    scorpio516 wrote: »
    robertw486 wrote: »
    I personally don't even buy the smoker or kids of a smoker theory. If a person is reasonably thin and not carrying too much excess, applies themselves, most people could run 6 minute miles in their younger years at least. It might be a struggle for really short people, some with short legs, and people who would rather find a reason to say it's genetic.

    Son of a heavy smoker here. So much so, my dad died of throat cancer when I was 25. In High school, I could run a sub minute 400m, a 2:10 800m, and a 18:00 5k. Although it probably is the cause of my current issue with EIB. So I agree with you.

    But your last point, height doesn't matter, and at the pointy end, height is a disadvantage. Mo Farah, the reigning olympic 5000m champ, is 5'-5". Meb is 5'-7". Kiprotich, won the olympic marathon in 2012, is 5'-8".
    Sprinters usually are tall though, Bolt is 6'-5".

    Interesting that the height doesn't play into the picture, but I might be assuming something I shouldn't. If I take myself and make the scaled up me 20% larger, I would assume my pace would increase. But then again, human design doesn't always work that way.

    Not sure of my shorter times, but I was fairly quick in the 400 and 800 back in the day. And knocked out 18 minute 3 milers for the military testing. As the son of heavy smokers and a smoker myself.
  • gdyment
    gdyment Posts: 299 Member
    robertw486 wrote: »
    Interesting that the height doesn't play into the picture, but I might be assuming something I shouldn't. If I take myself and make the scaled up me 20% larger, I would assume my pace would increase. But then again, human design doesn't always work that way.

    Heat dissipation is the key on marathon distance, and people with more mass generate more heat. So bigger people have a net disadvantage. Not the case for sprinting/shorter stuff.
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