Stop the whining. Email the man at theherd@espnradio.com- if you listen to his show, he does an email segment. I guarantee you, that he will address it.
Stop the whining. Email the man at theherd@espnradio.com- if you listen to his show, he does an email segment. I guarantee you, that he will address it.
Hey ya wrote:
You cray cray
Hell yeah!
I don't know who this Colin Cowherd is, but 6:11 is nothing to sneeze at. I could hold 8:30 pace for 5k back when I was still living. But I had only been training in my new Vibrams for about a month, so I wonder how fast I could have run after my feet had time to adjust to natural running. Guess I'll never know!!!
Dude ran 6:11 in trainers. Rexing would be proud.
happy... wrote:
Suggestion: ditch ESPN (better yet, cancel the cable subscription), and do something useful with the time.
Did that over a year ago. Espn has already started the ruination of all sports. College teams joining conferences 2,000 miles away. NBA games so fixed they are comical. Coaches rotating between working for them and taking jobs with schools after the espn propaganda machine forces spineless ADs to fire the coaches. More commercials than actual playing time to pay for the exhorbitant fees they pay the pro sports. Rampant negativity and hate based shows primarily denigrating the athletes they are making millions by showing. Ripping off the average cable viewer who has no interest in sports by forcing multiple channels and the highest rates on the regular cable packages.
Videos of some other ~6 min miles
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUmR5GYO07E
go longer wrote:
Videos of some other ~6 min miles
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUmR5GYO07Ehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyjG4NIgKT8http://vimeo.com/3753164
Only watched the first one, but yeah, that's what I would expect a 6:00 mile to look like. The ESPN guy looks like he's just crawling on a couple shots. Don't know why they would lie about something so trivial, but really, they just need to put up the entire video - all 4 laps.
He very likely ran the 6:11. He is a tall guy with a long stride. I have seen him run and have run right along side of him. When he lived in Portland and was a sports anchor he ran a number of the major 5k races in downtown Portland. I remember him running some of them maybe in low 22-23ish? for 5k but I believe his wife was more the regular racer. He was always quiet and mellow at those races and then later that night he'd be pretty crazy when talking sports on TV. But he def was at quite a few races down at the water front in the late 90s and early 2000s so he knows his way around the basics of running.
I tried to find some race results for him but didn't find any but I did find one of those goofy before/after Team Beachbody sites with "before" picture of him. He looks like a guy who can run a 6+ minute mile in his before pic.
He must have improved a lot as he aged:
http://athlinks.com/result/2705/3332/97059476/386909
http://athlinks.com/result/173306/237610/100280695/100392701
I don't think he has any reason to lie about doing it. It would have been equally funny/compelling (that is to say not very much of either) if he failed to hit his 6:30 goal. It would have been more interesting to line up all the ESPN radio hosts to see who could run a mile the fastest.
The only issue I have is he didn't even run a mile and the World Wide Leader really should know how long a mile is.
Roadkillracing wrote:
The only issue I have is he didn't even run a mile and the World Wide Leader really should know how long a mile is.
You're assuming a 400m track. Remember this was in CT where there are still some 440y ovals.
For those wondering why he started in the middle, it very well could have been a yards track. I know my high school track (sadly) was a yards track and our start and finish line was in the middle. In that case as well 4 laps comes out to a mile.
You really think they have a rubberized 440 yard track?
I was wondering about this too. The track I recently ran on was rubberized, but didn't have a mile line marked back from the finish line. I just stepped off 9 meters, but afterward wondered if the lack of a mile line meant it was a 440 track?
Lighten up Francis wrote:
I was wondering about this too. The track I recently ran on was rubberized, but didn't have a mile line marked back from the finish line. I just stepped off 9 meters, but afterward wondered if the lack of a mile line meant it was a 440 track?
Where was the 400m start line?
I can tell you in the Tampa area a number of 440 yard tracks have been rubberized and converted into meters. So the 3200s for instance start in the curve.
I can kind of vouch for him. I was a casual acquaintance in Portland when he was the sports anchor for the NBC affiliate. He was running about 30 to 40 miles a week at that time. I don’t remember his marathon times but he did a couple. As a guess, I'd say in the 3:20 range. He said he quit running that much because he started to look to much like a runner (thin). Per his radio show, I know he played quarterback in high school and played basketball at Eastern Washington (low D1). Compared to the general population he is a very good athlete.
Plenty of 400 meter high school tracks don't have the mile start marked. They never run the mile so why bother painting the start for it?
No way. That is just not correct AT ALL. Only 5% of adult Americans of ANY AGE can even run a mile at all without stopping. I'm not saying a 6:11 is amazing at all (because man it looks to me like he's running slower than that), but you are not correct in what you say...not even remotely close.
heyyo wrote:
Was this freshmen PE mile at fat camp?
A 6:30 mile at 48 is only 64% on age-graded calculators, meaning 1/3 people at the age of 48 can break 6:30. Wow, big whoop.
Yep. No rail or cones. You can actually see Cowherd step on the line too. Also, the pace cart is bad. The biggest problem though is that we don't see the whole race. Sure seems to me that he's running slower than 6:11, but looks can be deceiving. I've seen some high school kids run about that time after the winners finished a minute and a half in front of them, and they look horribly slow too.
wejo wrote:
GGGG wrote:What a puss LOL. He had a pace cart? Did he run 1 Mile or 1600 meters?
I'd give him a hard time but all in fun.
Good point. Let's add it to the list...
1) No rail on the track or cones.
2) Why the hell did they start in the middle of the straightaway?
3) Illegal pace cart.
If Lebron goes for 100 in a rec league game, are we supposed to be excited;)
I'm surprised ESPN did get him all sponsored out. Anyone know what those shoes were?
Round #2 needs to be even bigger. Cheerleaders, Sponsors, Live Stream on LetsRun. We can get every ex jock in the country to try and break 6 minutes.
Has Jackie Joyner ever run a competitive mile in her life? Maybe it will be a match race between them.