ORIGINAL: Rick James
Thanks Greg but if you have ran enough to get to 10:17, you know that there is a HUGE difference between 12 minutes for 2 miles, and 10:17 for 2 miles. You could fit the grand canyon into the discrepancy between those two numbers. I was working my butt off and pushing myself hard for a long time to get to that 12 minutes. Had I not been smoking, I probably would have been at 10 minutes or close to it.
That reminds me of high school a few years back. I ran cross country. I had never really ran before my 10th grade year. We just happened to have one of the fastest and hardest working teams that's ever gone through that school. It was nothing for our top 3-4 guys (I was always 3-4[:-]), to do 3-4 one mile repeats all at 5-5:15 marks. I ran my first sub 5 minute mile doing those repeats (ok, it was only like 4:58 but it was UNDER
). In the end, I got burnt out. I don't run for covering the most amount of distance in the least time, I like to stretch the time factor out and get a solid plateu where I'm peaking my cardiovascular system.
Btw, the PR on our high school course still stands. 5K course...14:46. Bill Reifsnyder, went on to become a pro marathon runner. I ran the course in 17:20[:-]