Sentences with phrase «minute mile»

For a 132 - pound female this is the same as running a 6 - minute mile pace for an hour.

You must coach them to blow past the four - minute miles of their own minds.

Why did the four - minute mile take so long?

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?

At speeds over 13 - minute mile rate you are burning more calories per mile as you use more muscle groups, as well as building muscle.

That's a sub 5 minute mile pace maintained for the entire 26 miles.

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

Sir Roger, who became the first to run a sub-four minute mile on May 6, 1954, now struggles to walk.

Today [Tuesday] is the 60th anniversary of the first sub-four minute mile, run by Oxford University student Roger Bannister at the University's Iffley Road running track.

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.

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

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

Columnist Bill Heine recalls an interview with Roger Bannister, 60 years after he ran the first four - minute mile as an Oxford medical student.

Sir Roger Bannister has Parkinson's disease 60 years after 4 minute mile record Daily Mirror, 02/05/2014, Louie Smith

«I've seen some sideways 30 minute miles going up the mountain, trying to keep my eyes open.»

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

I believe when people say they «jog» with it, they mean 10 - minute miles over the course of three miles.

Justin: You make competing at an elite level seem like a walk in the park with your casual 5 minute mile running pace!

Roger Banister used hiking rock climbing for 2 to 4 weeks before breaking the 4 minute mile if memory serves me correctly.

I'm no road runner, but my pace slowed from a 10min / mile to a TWELVE minute mile (and some change) once I found my feet in the sand.

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

One recent study from North Dakota State University found that you can burn 346 calories in just 13 minutes of performing a 6 - exercise resistance circuit, while running at a 10 - minute mile pace for the same amount of time will only burn 146 calories.

(For regular runners looking to add in strategic walking breaks, Galloway suggests alternating 90 seconds of running and 30 seconds of walking if you run a 10 - minute mile on average.

That nice round number has become the four - minute mile of competitive memory, a benchmark that the world's best «mental athletes,» as some of them like to be called, are closing in on.

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.

Instead, I am walking a 10 - 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.

Why should human beings who self - identify as women and yet who consistently fail to break the four - minute mile, years after it became a routine event at men's college track meets, receive the same remuneration as other human beings who do?

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.

Phil Banning, a freshman Villanova miler from England, was astonished: «A four - minute mile on this track!

If you look at that first goal, you'll see that Ridgewell's «12 minute mile» pace in tracking back put him far past David Guzman, who started at roughly the same spot.

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.»

In typical Oxford fashion, the Acer Nethercott Sports Centre will be a world leader in itself, while providing students and clubs with the facilities they need to stay at the top of their game — apt for the site where Sir Roger Bannister made history 60 years ago by becoming the first person to run a sub four - minute mile.

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.

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

Herb Elliott became first to break 4 - minute mile seven times, did it in 3:59 run at British Empire Games in Cardiff.

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