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

Puffer wrote:

Another cool thing we do is every once in a while we play some virtuoso piano concertos. And no one has any musical training or ability

That really cracked me up, well done.

I work in a senior care facility

Every once in awhile we like to convince one of the old-timers that there are a former Olympian

We show them clips of some great Runner. Articles, pictures. Will spend a couple of weeks convincing them that they were an all-time great former Runner

Then we take them out to the track and unleash the hounds

It's incredible when you see someone who hasn't walked in years begin sprinting around a track with all the conviction and dedication of a top Olympian

It just goes to show you running is 99% mental and 1% physical

Sure they'll be a little sore the next day. But certainly no worse for wear. That's why I totally believe the original poster

Puffer wrote:

Another cool thing we do is every once in a while we play some virtuoso piano concertos. And no one has any musical training or ability

Average guys conducting an orchestra:

100% legit!

Running is all mental

Our natural condition is to be running

It takes more energy to stop yourself from running then to run really fast

Just think about it how does the Earth have the energy to hurtle through space around the Sun at an incredible velocity

Simply because it's the natural way it's supposed to be

Same goes for running. Anyone's capable of running a 4 minute mile at any seconds

People just convince themselves they can't

I'm a truck driver. And every once in a while I'll drive past the old age home and some old-timer will come hurtling out of a second-floor window and begin sprinting along the highway for a couple of miles with my semi truck. Happens all the time!

Getting close wrote:

Puffer wrote:

Another cool thing we do is every once in a while we play some virtuoso piano concertos. And no one has any musical training or ability

Average guys conducting an orchestra:

https://improveverywhere.com/2013/09/24/conduct-us/amp/

I'm pretty sure world-class musicians know how to read sheet music and play in an orchestra regardless of whether a experience conductor or some random is standing in front of them

Puffer wrote:

I'm a truck driver. And every once in a while I'll drive past the old age home and some old-timer will come hurtling out of a second-floor window and begin sprinting along the highway for a couple of miles with my semi truck. Happens all the time!

Cops typically don't pull over two parties at once, so who usually gets the speeding ticket? You or the person running alongside your truck?

Or his company may have only like 10 or so people, all former athletes.

utter won wrote:

I can confirm that though none of us ever played sports, most of us keep sprinting spikes in our desks at all times.

Is this your office?

Yeah at times like that no one's even thinking about tickets

It's like a beautiful sunset people just enjoy it

The sight of an 80 year old guy running 50 miles per hour down the highway is just pure joy

I feel like this a made up story. No one from work is going to want to race something for as little as 20 dollars. Hell they might do it for free, but no one is going to take a 20 dollar incentive seriously.

Belarussiya wrote:

I feel like this a made up story. No one from work is going to want to race something for as little as 20 dollars. Hell they might do it for free, but no one is going to take a 20 dollar incentive seriously.

I agree- the incentive seems waaay too low. Does sound made-up.

Most people know it’s a troll. They’re just pointing out weaknesses in the attempt.

This is great. Thanks for sharing the results.

If Strava did this in San Francisco 4 years ago, there could have been around 3-4 guys under 2:22 in the marathon.

You definitely work and a healthy or fitness place, don't you. Please reveal.

Okay, fine. I picked the 5th Avenue Mile, which is a fast course, a good deal downhill, esp. the 2nd half when you might be tiring:

roughly 9,200 finishers, 294 sub 5 and 1808 sub 6.

19.5% beat six in a downhill mile. Most at that race are going to be in the New York running clubs and training quite a bit.

You'll find probably 7-8 minute mile being 50th percentile at this race. Your office is nowhere near representative of untrained America.

https://results.nyrr.org/event/5AV-19/finishers#page=36

This is insane if true... I work in a factory, and I bet the average time would be 11-something.

zxcvzxvc wrote:

Okay, fine. I picked the 5th Avenue Mile, which is a fast course, a good deal downhill, esp. the 2nd half when you might be tiring:

roughly 9,200 finishers, 294 sub 5 and 1808 sub 6.

19.5% beat six in a downhill mile.

After eliminating all of the females and the males under 20 or over 40, the median time looks to be in the low 6s. Doesn't seem to be that much different than the OP's office.

Yes. The office of random guys does as well as the self selected guys running a competitive 1 mile road race in NYC.

The winner's name ? Albert Einstein

One more step wrote:

zxcvzxvc wrote:

Okay, fine. I picked the 5th Avenue Mile, which is a fast course, a good deal downhill, esp. the 2nd half when you might be tiring:

roughly 9,200 finishers, 294 sub 5 and 1808 sub 6.

19.5% beat six in a downhill mile.

After eliminating all of the females and the males under 20 or over 40, the median time looks to be in the low 6s. Doesn't seem to be that much different than the OP's office.

Incredible ability to compare groups of people. Jeeze louis.

This whole thread is fake news.