Usain Bolt sub 5 mile.

He goes:

100: 9.53

200: 19.12

400: 41.57

800: 1:42.98

1500: 3:52

mile: 4:15

he is an amazing athlete who could be a great anything up to the 800, then based off talent could compete in DIII in the mile

yeah whatever. the question isn't what he could run if he trained though...just on pure sprinting fitness.

I'm willing to bet money he can run a sub 5 minute mile.

I think he would be in oxygen debt after 800 and could not run 6 min pace after that.

I would guess he could run sub-5 if he could keep the splits even. When people aren't used to running a mile all-out they tend to run their first lap way too fast. I would expect Bolt to do the same and slow down considerably on the final 2 laps. Without any coaching or special training I would expect the following results for Bolt:

Lap 1: 68

Lap 2: 73

Lap 3: 77

Lap 4: 82

Time: 5:02 (collapses on the track)

joke? guys who run 400 in 52 on my college team can break 5 in the mile.

I think if you told him to walk the first lap he would still go out in 60. That is freaking 15 seconds slower than he can run the 400.

In response the the other post. I don't believe your 50 second hs friends can break 5 without any training at all. bullshit.

or 52 second college friends..whatever

Bolt could break 5 minutes if he had a legit distance runner pacing him, and if he had the discipline to run with the pacer, not ahead, not behind. The pacer would also have to make sure he was 2-3 seconds under pace so that he could accomodate all the chest pounding during the last 50.

I once saw Calvin Smith run an 800 in 2:06 at an Atlanta TC All Comers meet. He looked like he was jogging. I think Bolt would break 5 with time to spare, but he'd be surprised how hard the last lap felt.

400 - 58 (it'll feel like walking to him)

800 - 65 - 2:03

1200 - 77 - 3:20

1609 - 91 - 4:51 (1200 to 1400 will be at close to 8:00 pace)

If you have him do it again a week later the pace would be more even and he'd do 4:20.

Maybe my personal experience can settle this. I never ran super fast. I completely quit running more than 2 years ago. I got bored one day this summer and decided to give a try at running. I ran once jogging, maybe 6 miles. I then wondered if I could break 6 for a mile. I ran a mile going through half at just under 3 min, felt wonderful and ended in 5:23. Seeing the lack of good pacing, I waited 2 days, came back with the objective of simply bettering 5 minutes. I ran 1:14, 2:31, 3:46, 4:56. Again, I do not train, do not do any sort of excercise for the sake of excercising alone (walking somewhere has a purpose), and never was elite. I still can break 5 on talent. To even pose that question about a professional i cannot understand.

of course he could. the question is, could he smoke lance armstrong in a mile??

WHEN BOLT is 60 he wont be able to break 14 in the 100 m . as for now, everyone knows black people cant run distance .

I agree with "retired for almost three." This question is kind of ridiculous. For short, the answer is yes. I don't want to go into detail now I'm tired but if someone differs I can. The man is an elite athlete and is as lean as some mid distance guys themselves. I was average in the mile in h.s and had no real training myself as my coaches didnt really know anything. 4:55 is what I would say. I wouldn't really no the splits so I won't talk about that as I'm not sure

there are kids in middle school that break 5 on less aerobic training than bolt does.

you have guys on your college team who run 52's?

is it a school for the death and blind?

I say Bolt would NOT break a 5:00 mile.

He's said to rarely give it 100% in his SPRINTING. How's he going to deal with a just a trace of lactic acid in a 5:00 race?? He'd have to do this, and I say he wouldn't.

sUnDaY crusty sAtCh- wrote:

WHEN BOLT is 60 he wont be able to break 14 in the 100 m . as for now, everyone knows black people cant run distance .

Wasn't it a black man who just broke the marathon WR?

So what does the fact that it was a BLACK MAN THAT JUST ONE THE MARATHON HAVE TO DO with this PPPOSTING? EH! EH! EH?

FYI ... I know for a FACT ... that Senor Bolt runs

5 minutes for the mile *sometimes* for his warm up.

You guys think it is a big deal for him to run 5 minutes

for the mile because most a yaz f***s can't even run

that fast for an important race :(.

5 minutes for the mile is diddalay squaw ttt ....

I know for a fact that Senor Bolt has run 4:30 just for

fun ... sorta like the high jumper in OAR ... f' yaz noze

what I means.

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