Sentences with phrase «minute mile at»

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

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

Not exact matches

NHTSA and NTSB said Brown did not apply the brakes, and his last action was to set the cruise control at 74 miles per hour (119 kph), less than 2 minutes before the crash — above the 65 - mph speed limit.

Fifty minutes later, I've walked 1.2 miles, without even thinking about it — until I get an email from an acquaintance down the hall with the subject «Got ta ask»: «Are you going to be working at a treadmill desk all week?

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

The EHang 184's battery, which takes between two and four hours to charge, is good enough for a 23 - minute flight at a cheetah - like 62 miles per hour.

The 50 mile Bratislava - to - Vienna route would take an estimated eight minutes at full speed.

While rocketing 60 miles above Earth at three times the speed of sound, the lucky brothers Winklevii will glimpse a killer view of our planet while experiencing weightlessness for a few minutes.

NHTSA said in a report that Brown did not apply the brakes and his last action was to set the cruise control at 74 miles per hour (119 kph), less than two minutes before the crash.

Lockheed's Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2 is being designed to zip through the sky at Mach 20 (about 13,000 miles per hour), flying between New York and Los Angeles in 12 minutes.

If you travel often and you take long trips abroad (and you have to purchase a pricey plane ticket at the last minute from time to time), you may want to apply for a card that lets you earn miles or travel points.

So tell me my good fellow How someone is going to manage the equivalent of an 45 minute drive without a car or access to public transit (that would be about a 30 mile trip, so at least 10» ish hours walking for the average person or 3» ish hours on a bicycle if I recall base speeds correctly right)?

This year, Musk unveiled a much - hyped proposal for urban transit that he called the Hyperloop, which he said would be able to transport passengers from Los Angeles to San Francisco in just 30 minutes, at 350 miles per hour.

The Russians are more likely to be a few hundred miles off the coast, which should allow us about five minutes to leave our change of address at the Post Office and join the gridlock on Interstate 680.

If we now consider the number of the stars (15,000 x 106 visible to the optical telescope alone) you will understand how it is possible to say, cosmically speaking, that we are enveloped in a sort of monstrous gas formed of molecules as heavy as the Sun moving at distances from each other so great that they have to be reckoned in light - years (bearing in mind that light travels at a speed of 186,000 miles per second, and that we are only 8 light - minutes distant from the sun)-- a gas made of stars!

Yeah 35 + miles a week is just not going to work for me lol people already give me dirty looks at the gym if I've been running for the maximum 30 minutes that they allow, dumb two slot rule.

But within minutes we are mesmerized at the sight of gaggles of birds, large and small, elegant and comical, obeying the secret inner prompting that sets them to fly hundreds, even thousands of miles to serve the demands of life and survival.

I ended up doing just under half the workout — 32:31 minutes at 15 % incline at 3.8 mph — I did exactly two miles.

what sounds weird to me is waking up at 0630, checking the computer to find 106 messages, clicking immediately on theone from Smitten Kitchen, and at 0705 absolutely drooling over the idea of hitting the kitchen this minute and what time does the local co-op open and do they have the best dried chick peas or do I need to drive the 48 miles to the Hanover co-op to get the good ones.

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.

January: 10 Visits to the YMCA; Recipe: Gluten - Free Olive - and - Feta Corn Muffins February: One vegan meal every day; Recipe: Pakistani Chickpea Pulao with Sweet - Hot Date - Onion Chutney March: Run 40 miles in 20 days; Recipe: Chocolate - Dipped Almond Butter Cookie Bites April: Walk 8,000 steps a day; Recipe: Herb - Flecked Spring Couscous May: 180 minutes of Nike Training Club; Recipe: Warm Arugula Salad with Maple Mustard Dressing June: Fresh fruit / veggies at every meal; Recipe: Chickpea Crepes with Grilled Curried Chicken and Mango Salsa

«Before I had a child, I would think all day about what I wanted to cook, read cookbooks, go to three different specialty markets in different boroughs and the farmer's market, and then go home and put on perfect, beautiful music and pour a glass of wine before I started chopping vegetables,» she recalls, speaking at a mile a minute.

Thursday: 6.5 miles at the track with 2000m x 4 (or about 8 minutes hard) 6:38 pace for each with 2 minute rest intervals

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.»

Peterson was near the head, moving at a pace of three minutes and 20 seconds per mile.

She had taken 11 hours 26 minutes 32 seconds to cover the 440 miles at an average speed of 38.454 mph.

• Hungary «sslender Sandor Iharos provided latest flurry in prodigal year for track «sdistance men, stepped off 5,000 meters in 13 minutes 40.6 seconds at Budapest, 6.2 seconds faster than briefly held world mark of Russia's Vladimir Kuc, lowered Chris Chataway's three - mile record by nine seconds to 13:14.2 in samerace.

«I could barely see a couple feet ahead of me because the fog was so thick, and this little, tiny, must have been 4 - 6 pound tabby kitten, started running alongside me in the fog at like a 10 minute per mile pace, for like a mile and a half.»

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 °).

She led by a minute at five miles, which she reached so quickly that race officials missed her completely.

He's been given such limited opportunities to get on the court that when he does he's running around at a hundred miles an hour trying to prove he's worth giving me more minutes too.

Fifty years ago, when 30 mph was fast for average cars, Fred Marriott raced a Stanley Steamer at a speed of two miles a minute.

Ǽ Run: 2 miles for time OR 20 minutes for distance (Complete the latter if you can not currently run two miles at or under 20 minutes.)

Elizabeth Waters, 4, of Metairie, La., who has swum since she was 2, and breaststroked half a mile in 45 minutes at 3, swam the 25 - yard breast against 9 - and 10 - year - olds, but finished last.

Five minutes earlier, in the second race at Pimlico, a 1 [1/16]- mile claiming event for cheap fillies and mares worth $ 8,000 - $ 8,500, So Sly and jockey Frank Douglas were racing sixth in a field of nine, moving three wide as they charged around the far turn.

Perhaps the most surprising stat is goals; he is at 0.92 goals per 90 minutes at the moment, just behind Costa on 0.96 and miles ahead of the rest.

Just before dinner, at dusk, he ran 2,000 meters five times, with three minutes» rest between runs, each run conducted at exactly a 4:20 mile pace, with different partners each time, the rabbits falling away from him like spent boosters from a rocket ship.

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.

Seizing an event that figured to be a curiosity, or at best a harbinger of the inevitable world of professional marathoning, Fleming left a solid field after a mile, took on a grueling course that led from the Hollywood Bowl to the Pacific — far hillier than that of any major marathon — and won by more than three minutes in 2:13:14.4.

When these two giants of European football go head to head there is rarely a minute to stand and think as the players hare around at one hundred miles an hour looking to pounce on their oppositions failings and secure a vital win.

Pace has skyrocketed recently (meaning a lot more miles traveled per minute, leading to more total distance per minute and also higher average speed so less time resting those legs at slow speed) and also defenses now have to be everywhere (before defense wasn't as tiring as it's now because every player didn't need to cover as much ground as they do 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.

The story of the four minute - mile achieved at Oxford University Sport took centre stage in their mission to find facts, fun and famous faces.

Among those competing will be six - time Paralympic gold medallist David Weir who hopes to become the first wheelchair racer in history to break the three - minute barrier for the mile at the London event.

Our friendly driver, Murphy, drove us the half - mile drive to the museum (it's available for up to three miles) in a sleek black Lexus, making us feel like the belles of the ball for at least 10 minutes.

I run on a treadmill (I switched to distance at week 3 because I'm too slow to run 5k in 20 - 30 minutes) so that I could tell myself, «another quarter mile and you can walk.

They have to have the ability to run at full speed up and down the soccer pitch for 90 minutes with very little recovery time, often traveling several miles over the course of a game.

You have advice coming at you a thousand miles a minute from every direction; your pediatrician, your mom, your mother - in - law, your neighbor... even your sister's friend's cousin's best friend from college.