The most prestigious law school admissions discussion board in the world.
|
 |
 
|
Update on my 5 year quest to run a 5 minute mile. Ran a 5:09 last night
Poast new message in this thread
Date: June 14th, 2025 12:49 PM Author: Bobby Birdshit https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=4426831&mc=56&forum_id=2#39468354
Got to 5:40 after a year and more or less stalled out there. The running community are largely distance oriented twinks so did not ever find any good training advice for a mile. I'd always get some setback like an annoying injury
Finally recently I got more serious and met a guy at the track who told me I need to focus on top speed, he said the average runner has the cardio to run a fast mile but not the physiology to sustain it."train fast run fast". So I focused on working my hip flexors by doing downhill sprints with as big of a stride as possible. Now the only thing holding me back is lactic acid clearance. I think I will hit sub 5 mins by the 1st week of august. Then I will go back to drinking beer and never run again |
Date: June 14th, 2025 12:53 PM Author: cock of michael obama mazel tov
height/weight/age? |
 |
Date: June 14th, 2025 4:09 PM Author: Bobby Birdshit 6' 189 and mid to late 30s/early 40s (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5737757&forum_id=2...id.#49015568) |
|
Date: June 14th, 2025 12:59 PM Author: Brussels Sprout: Brussels,Helsinki,Stockholm,Kyiv 5:13 (2019) is my PB so I salute u (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5737757&forum_id=2...id.#49014977) |
|
Date: June 14th, 2025 1:01 PM Author: fulano 180000000 It's been like 10 years since i ran a marathon but it totally fucked me up and I wish I hadn't done it at all and just stuck to high intensive miles. I never tried to break 5 but ran 3 6-min miles almost daily before that stupid "race". Should have focused on running a single 5 min mile daily and would probably be much healthier for it |
|
Date: June 14th, 2025 1:01 PM Author: STEPHEN MILLER (FAGGOTCHIPPER / Hegemon) 180
repeats are your friend, ime. for that distance, once you have a good z2 base you just have to start building your anaerobic capacity and speed. |
|
Date: June 14th, 2025 1:18 PM Author: Diane Rehm talking dirty (🐿️ ) Nice. Got down to 17:48 5k past age 30, and ran a 5:19 in my only 1 mile race. Would have liked to break 5, but never focused on it. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5737757&forum_id=2...id.#49015044) |
|
Date: June 14th, 2025 2:45 PM Author: martin heidegger Congrats this is actually cool unlike 95% of what people here do in the wild (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5737757&forum_id=2...id.#49015362) |
|
Date: June 14th, 2025 2:50 PM Author: load bearing slash Prestigious (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5737757&forum_id=2...id.#49015371) |
|
Date: June 14th, 2025 2:58 PM Author: this moniker is not available you do this in a race or a solo attempt on a track? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5737757&forum_id=2...id.#49015391) |
|
Date: June 14th, 2025 4:08 PM Author: Bobby Birdshit Just on a track I have not really seen any mile races its always 5ks and up l. And I imagine my time is not anywhere near worth doing a race too (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5737757&forum_id=2...id.#49015563) |
|
Date: June 14th, 2025 6:23 PM Author: Diane Rehm talking dirty (🐿️ ) Disagree on the race. Find your local running clubs and look for events. You’d be very competitive depending on your age group with that time. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5737757&forum_id=2...id.#49016001) |
|
Date: June 14th, 2025 7:11 PM Author: martin heidegger This dude should show up, crank out a 5 minute mile, smash some running club chick, then never return. Would be a gay running club legend (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5737757&forum_id=2...id.#49016106) |
|
Date: June 14th, 2025 7:13 PM Author: STEPHEN MILLER (FAGGOTCHIPPER / Hegemon) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5737757&forum_id=2...id.#49016112) |
|
Date: June 14th, 2025 7:17 PM Author: STEPHEN MILLER (FAGGOTCHIPPER / Hegemon) a 5:09 is better than every single soldier i know that was not a cardio athlete of some kind in highschool and/or college. you will absolutely crush most people there who are recreational runners. whether you find any value in it is up to you, but your time for a mile or 1500m would be very competitive with anyone who didn't run in HS. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5737757&forum_id=2...id.#49016122) |
|
Date: June 14th, 2025 7:14 PM Author: Police Boner (🧐) original thread is 180 "If you’re over 25, then it ain’t happening."
this is why the worst possible thing you could ever do is to take life advice from xo (except that one time 20 years ago the fiber cult was right) |
|
Date: June 14th, 2025 7:17 PM Author: STEPHEN MILLER (FAGGOTCHIPPER / Hegemon) MFCR
XO is full of non-athletes that have no concept of what's possible, and then also apply that same defeatism to every domain of life. |
|
Date: June 14th, 2025 8:29 PM Author: irrelevant shitscientist Sounds like you’re almost there and you can probably just keep following your current plan. Just for fun, here’s some mile type interval workouts I was doing while running cross country and track in high school. If you can do these, I think you could hit sub 5 (but again you could probably just stick with your current plan). I would only do one of these a week if you wanted to try. These should be pretty hard efforts.
4 x 400m, try to run each under 75 seconds. 60 seconds rest between 400s.
8x300, slow jog the remaining 100 each lap for rest. Again try for around 5 minute mile pace, or maybe a bit slower
12 x 200m, each rep should be fast but consistent. Try for 35 seconds and under, 30-60 seconds rest between each rep.
Another day a week do 8-10 seconds hill sprints if you have hills in your area.
Other days of the week would be easy running or rest days.
|
|
Date: June 14th, 2025 8:31 PM Author: tentacle rape You must be a twink (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5737757&forum_id=2...id.#49016271) |
|
Date: June 14th, 2025 9:00 PM Author: Nazca Redlines 180 that you already hit 5:09. 180 that you're going for 5:00.
Is your target 5:00 or sub-5:00?
189 lbs sounds heavy for getting down to 5 minutes. Losing 10 pounds would probably help you.
In my 20s, I could run sub-6:00, and even that felt great.
There was a guy at my high school who could run in the 4:30s. It was really cool to watch. |