Sentences with phrase «half minute mile»

It's like Roger Bannister and the four - minute mile.

But once Bannister did it, all of a sudden other runners started repeating the feat, and today the four - minute mile is considered a yardstick by which all distance runners are measured.

«Humans have broken the four - minute mile barrier and cracked the 100 - mile ultramarathon.

Instead, I am walking a 10 - minute mile.»

«I do not run a six and a half minute mile.

(That's right at 8.5 - minute miles, which for many is a little fast.

I know running a sub four minute mile is impossible becuase I could never break 4:30.

I hit the gym and happily got my remaining weekly miles in (26.14 in 3:31:35) with a tempo run 5.11 miles at 7:56 minute mile.

I'm delighted that the Bannister Mile will take place in my home town of Oxford, at the same place where I set my four minute mile».

On Saturday 20th July 2013 Oxford University Cross Country Club helped host this high profile athletics meeting at Oxford University Sport's Iffley Road track, which culminated in not one, but two, sub-4 minute miles being ran!

An account of the day Roger Bannister broke the four minute mile: «There was ham salad for lunch, a shower of rain at 5.15 pm, a gusting wind, a false start, and then history... It is 60 years today since that iconic moment on the crunchy, uneven, gravel track at Iffley Road, Oxford... Bannister was 25, a medical student, and he was running in the annual Amateur Athletic Association v Oxford University Athletic Club match.»

And few who scoffed had any real understanding of the endless physical toil needed to condition a man for a distance race, nor the physical agony implicit in a four - minute mile.

Remembering his compulsion for big talk, a great many of his fellow countrymen began to feel that the American candidate for the four - minute mile was only a false alarm.

She just takes off, determined to run seven - minute miles for 45 minutes, and Amanda gasps, running farther and harder than she ever dreamed she could, just trying to keep Michelle in sight.

Amanda starts running and realizes after three laps that she has almost nothing left, and there's only one way to come close to Michelle's seven - minute mile.

Why did the four - minute mile take so long?

Double - corked tricks were the halfpipers» equivalent of the four - minute mile.

# 5 Marty Liquori CEDAR GROVE Last high schooler to break four - minute mile; ranked No. 1 in 1500 meters in 1969 and» 71.

Not long ago in the tiny hamlet of Great Meadows, N.J. he performed a feat that is to drag racing what Roger Bannister's first four - minute mile is to track — he broke the sport's 200 - mph barrier twice in one afternoon.

This mixture has been used for some of the finest tracks in the world: the one at Oxford on which Roger Bannister ran the first four - minute mile, the 1956 Olympic track at Melbourne, the Dublin track where Herb Elliott ran his world record mile in 1958, and even the track which the Sheik of Kuwait built for his university on the Persian Gulf (no records are likely to be set there, however, because of the tendency of the temperature to climb up to the neighborhood of 140 °).

Last Saturday, before an overflow crowd of 11,103 in the small stadium in Modesto, Calif., Boston broad - jumped 27 feet and one - half inch to become the first man ever to accomplish this equivalent of the seven - foot high jump or the four - minute mile — track and field marks that have acquired a peculiar magic.

Thinking of my father, I began swimming an hour each day, angrily punching the heavy bag and running six - minute miles.

Another movie portrays Roger Bannister's four - minute mile, Wilt Chamberlain at Overbrook High, some smooth moves by Pelé and a slow - motion high jump by world - record holder Dwight Stones.

60 years ago on Thursday 6th May 1954 Roger Bannister broke the 4 - minute mile at our athletics track which now...

Oxford University Sport's site at Iffley Road was the scene of one of the greatest sporting achievements in the 20th century — the breaking of the four - minute mile.

Then, past the Iffley Road Running Track, made famous by Sir Roger Bannister breaking the 4 - minute mile in 1954, then over the impressive Magdalen Bridge, towards the city centre.

I doubt very much whether Bailey will ever achieve a four - minute mile again, or even come close.

My son weighs 50 lbs and I can still run sub 9 minute miles pushing him.

Why didn't people run a four - minute mile before 1954?

Ten minutes of jumping rope can roughly be considered the equivalent of running an eight - minute mile.

Based on these recommendations, a casual runner could log eight miles per week at about a nine - minute mile pace.

I'm sure every runner would love to run a four - minute mile, but that's not the reality for a lot of us.

«If you can run a six - minute mile, but you can't play around with your kids because you're unable to squat down or climb with them, is your fitness regime [helping you] do the things you ultimately want to do?»

Once a week, work on your speed, aiming to walk 2 — 3 miles at 15 minutes a mile.

If you average a 12 - minute mile, try alternating 60 seconds of running and 30 seconds of walking.)

Just to break it down for you, that comes out to a five - minute mile.

That's equivalent to running a 6 - minute mile pace.

There «re certain strength training workouts that can double as cardio: According to a recent study by the American Council on Exercise kettlebell exercises can burn up to 20 calories a minute which is the equivalent of running at a 6 - minute mile pace!

Compare that to running, where even at an eight - minute mile you're only going 7.5 mph.

When I upped my speed to about a 7:30 - minute mile pace, I really noticed how bouncy the shoe was.

In moments of desperation, Id break down and hum a little Lady Gaga, but keeping my focus on enjoying the moment allowed me to finish strong, still making my goal of eight - minute miles.

I cant wait till I get to a solid 10 minute mile.

A recent study from the American Council on Exercise reveals that kettlebell exercises burn up to 20 calories a minute — equivalent of running at a 6 - minute mile pace!

My typical run is a steady nine - or 10 - minute mile, trodding along on the treadmill for a couple of miles max.

For me, the pace is a 12 minute mile or 5mph on a treadmill.

At the beginning of his aerobic training period, he was running 12 minute miles.

My question is... how do I go from being a 10 - minute mile runner to a cadence of 180 which equals 7 - minute miles?

Whereas an easy day used to be 6:30 minute miles paying no attention to heart rate.

(For example, an elite marathoner may be doing 5:30 minute miles at a pace that is almost completely aerobic.

Originally, I set a goal for myself of averaging 9:30 minute miles.