Co-workers had a mile time trial yesterday. Results were surprising.

Karl Hungus wrote:

This is more fake than Jamin telling us he had a date with a woman or statements from NOP.

So is this also fake? It's from a registered user many years ago in a non-running forum. I think that most people on here don't like to admit that there are a lot more physically active people than they think.

josh1988 wrote:

This didn't happen.

/thread

Did not win wrote:

In the men's under 40 division, the winning time was a 5:18

Seems reasonable when you consider that the 99th percentile for 20-39 year old men is in the low 7's for the 1.5 mile run:

A guy running a 5:18 mile would probably be in the mid 8's for a 1.5 mile, which falls in the 95th percentile.

A 5:18 mile is slow for an average adult male. If by average you mean untrained and of average non-athletic habits, then I really cannot see that being borne out in reality.

I don't see the man on the street or anywhere going under 6 min.

At a President's fitness day event of all the male high school students at an inner city High

Only three (out of four hundred) non athletes went under 6.

Under 6 would surprise me for the untrained average adult male, Kenyan or American!

jamese1045 wrote:

A 5:18 mile is slow for an average adult male. If by average you mean untrained and of average non-athletic habits, then I really cannot see that being borne out in reality.

I don't see the man on the street or anywhere going under 6 min.

At a President's fitness day event of all the male high school students at an inner city High

Only three (out of four hundred) non athletes went under 6.

Typo?

I think you must work in an office with an unusually high proportion of athletically inclined employees. I don’t think I could get 10 percent of my coworkers to run a mile time trial. I work out at Orange Theory where we regularly do HIIT training workouts on the treadmill in addition to rowing and strength/core training. We do a one mile treadmill benchmark and we don’t have a median time close to the 6:20 range even for guys under 40.

Have you ever heard about the Cooper Test?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooper_test

An average Male 30-39 is considered to be able to run 1900 - 2299 mts (1.18 - 1.42 miles) on TWELVE minutes... No one except the uber-inflated egomaniacs from LRC think that sub-6 miles are 'average' or 'slow'.

Wrong theory wrote:

Intellectually Challenged Runners wrote:

You guys are retarded if you couldn't figure out that they likely ran a metric mile, aka 1000 meters, instead of a real mile.

A metric mile is 1500 meters, not 1000.

The OP said that he ran a 5:44, which would make no sense if it were a 1000m.

You missed the joke you dipstick-dull-lightbulb-lose-to-a-box-of-rocks-at-chess twit.

Since you're clearly in the mentally disabled spectrum, the joke was everyone ran 1000m, not a mile. Meaning the OP ran 5:44 for 1000m.

Keep up.

zxcvzxcv wrote:

To give you a general sense for the actual shape most people in offices who actually run races, i.e. those in better than average shape for the offices, check out the Buffalo version of the JP Morgan Corporate Challenge, which is a 3.5M (5.63 km) race. Out of nearly 9,000 competitors, only 272 averaged 7:00/M (24:30) or better (best was sub 18).

Conclusion: your office either does not exist or is way above the norm.

I've "run" the Corporate Challenge in NYC multiple times. Literally, no one goes "all out" for it, so it's a poor judge of standard office fitness. It's just for fun, jogging or even walking with your coworkers and usually getting dinner or drinks afterwards (or even beforehand - some companies had tents with beers and other beverages to drink before / after the race). There are thousands and thousands of people "competing" and if you are getting to the start line with your coworkers, like most people do, there's really no way to even move up in the pack if you were trying since there are walkers and others doing 15:00+ miles right up in the front that completely clog the path. My office had a few "decent" hobby joggers (a handful of sub 3 marathoners), and we didn't bother even trying to do anything except walk-run the course ... who wants to be sweaty for the dinner afterwards?

Pics / video or didn’t happen.

I work in LA and live 15 mins from DTLA.

An impromptu mile run at work would not happen in a typical office. There are so many holes in the story. People just happened to have workout gear with them. They were willing to run and then return to work or run after work? Almost all were physically active and ran on treadmills for nearly 3 hours a week! This is not an average “office” or group of people. They ran for 20 bucks!

At least Matt London posts real videos about his feats.

How are people missing the fact that the OP works at LRC World HQ?

Fake

The average person is slow as hell.

The average athletic non-runner is still, on average, pretty damn slow.

Look at ANY big race (1000+ people) and you won't find a 6 min mile equivalent median 5k time, even if you set it to Males 20 to 29.

SoCalResident wrote:

Pics / video or didn’t happen.

I work in LA and live 15 mins from DTLA.

An impromptu mile run at work would not happen in a typical office. There are so many holes in the story. People just happened to have workout gear with them. They were willing to run and then return to work or run after work? Almost all were physically active and ran on treadmills for nearly 3 hours a week! This is not an average “office” or group of people. They ran for 20 bucks!

At least Matt London posts real videos about his feats.

If there were video, the OP wouldn't post it since at least some of his co-workers would want to remain anonymous. But I doubt that such a video exists. The event probably took place after work since many schools are still in session (they wouldn't allow the public to use their tracks during a lunch break), and nobody would want to return to work all sweaty. And who would want to videotape a whole bunch of 6+ minute milers jogging around in the dark? It's not like they're going to run in the low 4s or anything.

If they knew that there would be some kind of challenge that day, they would have brought their workout clothes, especially since the OP mentioned that yesterday wasn't the first time that something like this took place. And even if they didn't know that there would be some kind of competition that day, they would have brought their workout clothes anyway since they were active people.

Also, the OP said that they were almost all physically active OR ran on treadmills for 150 minutes a week. The 150 minutes of treadmill running doesn't sound like an unreasonable amount or a massive commitment - three 50 minute sessions a week (Friday, Sunday, and Tuesday?) would be enough. 150 minutes is shorter than some movies and professional sports games.

Wrong theory wrote:

Intellectually Challenged Runners wrote:

You guys are retarded if you couldn't figure out that they likely ran a metric mile, aka 1000 meters, instead of a real mile.

A metric mile is 1500 meters, not 1000.

The OP said that he ran a 5:44, which would make no sense if it were a 1000m.

There is no such thing as a "mile" in the metric system of measurements, it is an invention of the sports that use it.

A Mile is supposed to be a thousand (mil) roman paces, which is exactly how far 1000 meters is for me. I can pace off 100m +/- 1m very reliably. 1000 meters is the metric "mile" if there is one. The people who said 1500 are long dead and it's time to bury that nonsense with them.

BSSSSSSSSSS wrote:

Look at ANY big race (1000+ people) and you won't find a 6 min mile equivalent median 5k time, even if you set it to Males 20 to 29.

I actually ran one of those races when I was in 6 minute mile shape. My time was around 23 minutes.

It takes a lot of effort and time just to fight through the massive pack and get yourself close to the top 20-25% of runners regardless of how fast you are. Some people took almost a minute just to reach the starting line.

But even if that were a track 5K with only me and a pacer on it, I doubt I could have run a sub 21 or whatever the equivalent 5K time was. I was still fit from doing things like lifting, doing strides, and playing random ball games, so I could pull off a half-decent 400 (63), an OK 800 (2:32), and a pretty bad mile (6:02).

250 points on the men's IAAF tables is a 5:30 mile and a 3:19 marathon. But I'd bet my life that there are a lot more people who have ever run a sub 5:30 mile than people who have ever run a sub 3:19 marathon, even if you only include the people who actually attempted both events.

in japan everyone breaks 7 minutes..

in the usa or canada almost no one breaks 7 minutes

there you go, you first world advanced countries.

your bodies and brains are mush.

Could a 4x4 comprised of your colleagues beat a D1 miler?