I hereby publicly and officially claim the world record for the oldest human to break the four minute mile on any terrain (55 years). I am now going to take some hits off my wife's inhaler before I puke from coughing too much...
This is legitimate. I've raced this guy previously on downhill courses and he's well known for going out extremely fast (and usually blowing up hard in longer races). This run is completely outrageous. Discus.
My flat mile PR (set last year) is 4:51, I think I could go 4:47 right now. I was more of a hang gliding guy during my BYU time so I didn't run for them.
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Hey I resemble this run! And I'll do it again if somebody else wants to crush the 4 with me, it's a perfect segment to do it on
Good job! I've been the guy that likes talking about downhill running here. You beat me to sub-4 at 50 (I'm a DNS so far). I was thinking about trying it at 50 when I was bombing fast downhills effortlessly in training in my 40s, but my fitness fell off a cliff at 47, and I never gave it try. I might still make it happen at some point if I get back into similar form (I'm 54 now).
I downhill because I love the mountains, but a sub-4 downhill mile got lodged into my head by Big Wave Dave Torrence (RIP) when he was in college/well before he became a top pro. Do you know about this classic LR thread?
Hey everybody. As you can see, I'm attempting to break 4 minutes in the mile... downhill. I've recently run a 4:04 1600 on a flat track, and instead of training harder and working those 6 seconds down...I've decided I want...
Don't worry too much about the inhaler, I have a prescription :)
Bu seriously, don't argue about it, just come do it! It's a total rush and if you are at all into the fours in a real mile then you will break 4 here and your body will learn what it feels like and maybe help you break 4 for real later on.
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