Sentences with phrase «minute mile before»

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

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Flying nearly 1,800 miles high above earth, the missile flew for over 35 minutes before crashing down into the sea, according to David Wright of the Union of Concerned Scientists.

Even President Barack Obama — a slacker until he began running three miles a day as a young man — to this day makes time for 45 minute workouts before assuming his duties.

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.

However, the missile flies for approximately nine minutes and 40 miles before it spins out of control, according to a U.S. Pacific Command statement.

Its payload soared about 2,800 miles into space before falling back to Earth, ultimately landing in the Sea of Japan some 53 minutes later and about 620 miles away from the launch pad.

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.

I don't have a lot of time before the tinies come stumbling down the hall, hair sticking up like rooster tails and yawning while already talking a mile a minute.

«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 mBefore 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 mbefore I started chopping vegetables,» she recalls, speaking at a mile a minute.

In early January she had 9 points, 7 rebounds, 7 steals and 6 assists in one half of basketball before driving 10 miles to check into Miramonte's soccer game and deliver a hat trick over the game's final 60 minutes.

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.

In the light of all this Ollen suddenly seemed like an extremely attractive commodity, and a few days before the big meet in Boston Garden, he received a belated invitation to compete in the mile — provided he was willing to run the first quarter in something like 57 seconds and the half in two minutes flat.

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.

Indeed, before anybody was ingenious enough to invent racing cars, speedboats and aircraft, ice - boating was about the only way a real speed demon could experience the thrill of going a mile a minute.

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).

The scooter can go up to 10 miles an hour and a rider can be on the scooter for 8 minutes before they need to charge it up again.

It was obtained at a range of approximately 48,900 miles (78,700 kilometers) from Charon, about an hour and 40 minutes before New Horizons» closest approach to Charon on July 14, 2015.

Over an exhilarating 10 minutes, Schrijver followed C / 2011 N3 as it hurtled deep into the sun's atmosphere before vanishing some 50,000 miles from the solar surface.

On April 20, 2006, two small sky - monitoring cameras thousands of miles apart — one in Chile, the other in the Canary Islands — both recorded a bright starlike spot of light that rotated with the heavens for about 10 minutes before vanishing.

This image is one of those mosaic frames and was acquired on January 14, 2008, 18:10 UTC, when the spacecraft was about 18,000 kilometers (11,000 miles) from the surface of Mercury, about 55 minutes before MESSENGER's closest approach to the planet.

It was obtained by New Horizons at a range of approximately 21,100 miles (33,900 kilometres) from Pluto, about 45 minutes before the spacecraft's closest approach to Pluto on 14 July 2015.

«Before, my head was going a mile a minute,» says Levin.

Distance runners shave one minute off of their mile times and golfers find power they didn't have access to before, increasing their drive as much as 40 yards.

Before Sprint 8, I was running 8 to 10 minute miles.

The only drawback for me was getting 1 to 2 minutes per mile slower at MAF than before I started the test — granted it's been pretty hot recently.

Pull out that stopwatch I love that I can jog three miles in 24 minutes now; before, it took me 46 minutes!

Yes, we probably walked 565,340 miles the whole time we were there -LCB- we really only took cabs at night -RCB- but it just made me feel better to hop on the treadmill for 30 minutes each morning before showering and starting our day!

The 6 - mile Gaisberg, for instance, was a brief 10 - minute stint, Pass Lueg was over and done with before the first photo was in the can, and Griessen Pass and the two passes that followed were conquered with flying colors in fourth gear.

Surely, if a proper sports car such as a Porsche 911 doesn't require you to pull over for five minutes to set the car up for a mile or so of twisty road, then stop again for another five minutes to change everything back before joining a motorway, does the M5?

However for a race car the LEAF NISMO RC doesn't have the greatest numbers, zero to 62 MPH is 6.85 seconds, its top speed is 93 miles an hour and it can only run for about 20 minutes before its out of juice.

The race around the 11 - turn 1.986 - mile temporary track is a 100 minute sprint and teams will only have a couple of hours of practice time on the track before the race on Saturday afternoon.

Shortly before sunrise heavy fog descended over Daytona International Speedway and racing was effectively suspended for 100 minutes as the field followed a safety car around the 3.56 - mile, 12 - turn speedway road course.

More importantly, Toyota says their «groundbreaking vehicle» will be able to travel for up to 300 miles (483 km) before running out of hydrogen while a full refill will take less than five minutes.

Although he had never driven the 1.968 - mile course before this morning's 45 - minute practice session, Gavin captured the GT1 class pole in the American Le Mans Series» debut at the Grand Prix of Long Beach.

The final 90 minutes of the six - hour race were interjected by five yellow - flag periods and a race stoppage, standing water accumulating at various points of the 3.4 mile lap, and Milner comfortably led the race with a 12 - second gap to Corvette's nearest GTLM challenger before handing the reins back to Gavin.

Before you charge off into the world of miles and points, take a minute to think about your travel goals and how you can get there.

If you haven't gotten 1000 free American Airlines miles for watching 6 videos (hey, that's at least free $ 20 for 2 minutes of your time), then get them now before the offer expires tomorrow, by 12PM CT..

Enjoy panoramic Island views as your plane climbs to 2 miles high, before an exhilarating 30 second free fall and breath - taking 6 minute parachute ride back to terra firma.

You'll make 50 - minute, 2 to 3 - mile crossings to the off - shore islands where you'll have a chance to snorkel and hike before lunch, and then kayak to your first night's campsite.

Aktun - chen, a Mayan word that means «natural well inside a cave», is located 25 minutes from Playa del Carmen, in the heart of the Riviera Maya, 2.5 miles south of Akumal and 10 miles before Tulum.

I meant to play it for only a few minutes last night before going to bed, but I wound up being up until 1:30 a.m. playing the thing when I was going for a 30 - mile bike ride in the morning.

But I bet with a 35 mile range you're going to get home frequently for 30 - 60 minutes before heading out again and you're going to wish that you could cram in as much electricity as possible...

«Narrative is a difficult art; narrative should flow as flows the brook down through the hills and the leafy woodlands, its course changed by every bowlder it comes across and by every grass - clad gravelly spur that projects into its path; its surface broken, but its course not stayed by rocks and gravel on the bottom in the shoal places; a brook that never goes straight for a minute, but goes, and goes briskly, sometimes ungrammatically, and sometimes fetching a horseshoe three - quarters of a mile around, and at the end of the circuit flowing within a yard of the path it traversed an hour before; but always going, and always following at least one law, always loyal to that law, the law of narrative, which has no law.

Walking for 10 minutes, the Versa was only off in distance covered by 0.3 miles but running was off by around 0.1 miles — far less of a difference than before we adjusted our stride.