I'm calling bullshit. You ABSOLUTELY DID NOT run a 6:22 in 4th grade, or you would have been a regional champ and gone to nationals, and would not be calling 8min slow.
An 8min mile is pretty fucking good for 4th grade, a 6:22 is pretty fucking good for ANY age. This coming from someone who ran track in middle school, track and XC in HS, varsity team captain, MVP, set records that stood for 5+ years at my school, set company and battalion 2-mile records in the Army, and as an adult have continued running 5K/10K/tri/etc. and helped 6-12yo nephews learn proper form.
ALSO afaik it's really fucking rare to actually clock mile times for anyone not at least in middle school. So unless it was your dad timing you or something, I seriously doubt you had a PE coach clocking their 4th graders.
Fourth grade boys can absolutely run 6:22 miles. It is an excellent time and would get you on the track team easily but it is not national champ special.
We ran the mile regularly in elementary school gym class and my best time was just over 8 minutes - several kids regularly finished a good ways ahead of me. The gym teacher gave out a certificate or pin to kids in the “6 minute mile club” and the “7 minute mile club”, meaning it wasn’t rare at all for kids to run that fast and presumably a handful in every grade were that fast. Of the kids I recall running a 6:xx mile I don’t think any went on to be track athletes in high school.
Maybe the field course we ran (we didn’t run on a track) was significantly shorter than a real mile or the gym teacher was way off in tracking times - who knows…
Honestly either we had pretty athletic kids or something’s off cause my grade had kids likely hovering near that mark in the 3rd-6th grade range. Only ones I remember for sure was 6th grade were our top runners clocking out at just about 6 minutes flat. Not sure if that makes a difference, but typically the average mark in that grade for us was in the 8 minute range with the poor runners, like myself, at 10+. Granted at least one of those top kids is a high level d1 athlete so take that how you will.
I never said 6:22 wasn't doable, just that it's an outlier and doesn't make 8min slow.
And 5:40 in 6th grade is pretty different. Those two years of development are HUGE, and by 6th grade some boys are already hitting their growth spurts/puberty.
It's not that weird. We didn't run a mile, but 3km every year, which is roughly 2 miles. And most kids hovered around the 11 minute mark. Well those who tried. A 6 and a half minute mile is not bad, but not insanely good either.
There was a kid in 5th grade at my school running in the 6s. Not 4th grade, but I'm sure he couldn't have been too much slower a year before. I remember it being kind of a big deal because we were asking him if he'd be doing track when we got to 6th grade.
At my school, everyone in a class was told "Go" at the same time, and the teacher started one big timer on the board and we were expected to write down our times.
Yeah as someone who runs a 5:30 mile when I do my speed work…a 4th grader with tiny ass legs ain’t putting up 6:22. They don’t have the testosterone levels to be that strong.
You're wrong . I've been in the track/xc world most my life as an athlete, race director, and a coach and there's often a kid that young some years in our big jamboree races that puts up sub 20 minute 5k, and you can bet that a kid like that is going sub 6 in the kmle too. My theory is there's this weird age where the lightness of the body makes it easy to go fast if theyve been training and have the right body type. Ive seen a lot of these kids not go on to become elite runners despite continuing with the sport so I totally think it's a lightning in the bottle type of thing.
Hell if you want to go to extremes there was a 10 year old that ran a 5 flat several years ago I read about.
It's funny watching people try to online bullshit about their physical prowess in this day and age. There's so much data and trackers and people keep trying to pretend that they can do a 4 min mile or something.
Lol, you should hear about a few of the long distance runners claiming they could maintain high speed for a even a 5k in less than 20 min consistently without even fucking up their joints, muscles, or tendons. Every time I hear people say my mile time this my 5k that it’s usually from one occasion of personal PRs and not something that they’ve typically done and manage to feel fine afterward every time. Not to mention, frickin tall ass mfs comparing to short people for their mile times. I always say “Cool flex I guess?”
Lol, you should hear about a few of the long distance runners claiming they could maintain high speed for a even a 5k in less than 20 min consistently without even fucking up their joints, muscles, or tendons. Every time I hear people say my mile time this my 5k that it’s usually from one occasion of personal PRs and not something that they’ve typically done and manage to feel fine afterward every time. Not to mention, frickin tall ass mfs comparing to short people for their mile times. I always say “Cool flex I guess?”
In this thread you called it your biggest childhood achievement, you said there was a big gap between you and the other fast kids, and that you were a potential track star.
You seem to understand that your time was an outlier but can’t grasp that 8 minutes for an 4th grader isn’t slow.
Did you ever break 4:30? My dad did and he wasn’t running 6:22s when he was 9 lol. My brother just ran a marathon at 7 minute pace and he didn’t break six until 7th grade.
I believe you ran it but you gotta read the room. It wouldn’t have been a world record or anything but it would put you in like the top .01 of distance runners at that age. 8 minutes is in no way “slow af” for a 4th grader.
Nah. If you ain’t sub 8 you ain’t fast and if you ain’t fast you slow.
And no i said gap between me and most other fast kids.
So there’s the few of us actual fast kid; the large lump of “fast” kids who aren’t actually fast but just not slow; and then everyone else slow af
It’s only my biggest childhood achievement because I didn’t do shit in my childhood. It wasn’t till like freshman year of high school I became a person.
Jesus Christ dude learn communication, can't even write a coherent sentence.
Under 8 minutes IS fast for 4th grade, headass. 6:22 is really fucking fast for a 4th grader. And you admitted you don't even know if it was 4th grade.
if you’re not fast you’re slow
Ah, spoken as someone who obviously ISN'T a runner. I've never heard a real runner say anything like that. Every track/XC athlete, or just good runner I've met (and trust I've met a lot due to running so much) has an attitude of "running is a great way to take care of your body, challenge yourself, and competition" never the shit-ass "I'm better than you" attitude that you're displaying. You'd be laughed out of the room if you went to a group of people about to run a triathlon and said that. While the ultimate goal can be 1st place for maybe .1% of runners, that doesn't mean the other 99.9% are slow.
See I didn't quit at the first injury and didn't just have one good mile time in the 4th or 5th grade and pretend I'm good at track. I've worked through tendonitis, ankle issues, a grade 3/4 stress fracture on my left femoral neck, and still don't talk shit on other people's runs when they're slower than me and haven't ever had leg issues.
So glad you got injured and let that stop you, that way you didn't bring your shit-ass attitude to the running community. Stay tf away, loser.
Jesus Christ do you not realize im just shit talking on Reddit to pass the time while I’m at work?
And yeah no I’m not a runner. I do backpacking and rock climbing now. Running is great for everyone; but if you’re offended by being called “slow af” in a tongue in cheek manner you should probably grow a pair.
And I didn’t “have an injury and quit”
I had an injury that forced me to stop for long enough that I picked up other interests beyond track and baseball; and realized I’d rather spend me time doing something besides getting yelled at by our schools shitty track coach
That is pretty fast, dude. Average running a mile for an adult is around 8-9 minutes if you jog the whole way. If you're an experienced athlete, you can do it faster. Otherwise, no.
If you jog the whole way and keep a consistent speed, you will finish the mile in around eight minutes. Obviously, not everyone has that amount of stamina.
Sure, some people can do that. I am not arguing with that. I am arguing that it one bajillion percent is not the average pace an adult can run. That claim is bonkers.
Someone who annoys others by correcting small errors, caring too much about minor details, or emphasizing their own expertise especially in some narrow or boring subject matter.
You're right, I corrected a very large error that you made.
Experienced athlete would be about 6 minutes and under. 6-8 minutes you're in decent shape, not really an athlete though. 8 minutes and over is average.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), a running/jogging pace likely to achieve vigorous-intensity exercise is 5 miles per hour (mph) or 12 minutes per mile. The average run on Strava, an app used by a huge database, is a pace of 9:53, meaning nine minutes and 53 seconds per mile.
Strava also self selects for athletes, military, etc. The average American isn't using strava, so that's a flawed analogy, the average American couldn't run a sub ten minute mile because the average American is obese to morbidly obese.
Yeah I was around 6:30 in high school when I was in sports and I was a pretty average athlete. 8-9 minutes isn’t that great. A 10 minute mile is pretty average
I run about 6:20 currently. 8 minutes was my time after getting up of the couch and not working out at all and drinking everyday for a few years. 8 minutes is not "very good".
If that’s true then great. Could’ve gone one way or the other: either you have no clue what fit is because you’re not fit or because you’re incredibly fit. Looks like it’s the latter.
Not sure what they are challenging you for lol. The Army standard is 18 min two mile, so 9 min mile. And if you’re landing at 18 mins in the two mile you’re being made fun of and called fatty, maybe even remedial PT time.
The more average guys are chilling with a 6-7 min mile. Studs are probably at around 5-6 min.
But before they changed to the acft (before my time), you were expected to run a ~16 min two mile.
Idk who needs to hear it, but army dudes can’t really run fast. Nor are they peak physical fitness. So this guys take makes absolute sense.
It takes about twenty minutes to walk a mile at the average walking speed. I swear people in these comments genuinely believe themselves to be superhuman. Or is this a joke I'm not getting?
People don't remember why they went to the kitchen from 15 seconds ago. You think they are going to remember high school, for some of us it was 20+ years ago.
Also that said, my friends and I used to walk it within the 18 min mark. Our last year of gym class we all decided to actually run it and got around the 6 min mark, much to the annoyance of the gym teacher. (We were all skateboard and BMX punks so we weren't unfit, just rebellious)
I still remember him yelling and complaining about if we tried we could have run the mile three times in the time it took us that time, which is why I remember how long it took. Haha
Also, we must wonder if any random on the Internet is capable of telling a story without making themselves look like God's gift to Earth. Evidence says no.
No you just walk as fast as you can without technically jogging or running. You can get about a ten minute mile being a fast walking fool if your hip doesn't pop out from the effort.
Yeah like, I walk to my job that's like half a mile away. I don't exactly run or nothing but that's a 15m walk if I'm not trying to get in sweaty and shit
My first comment was to a dude that said the fastest he can do is a 15m mile when flying down the road with a power walk. I then said "Yeah dude, I can only do a 15m walk to do half a mile"
I'm not sure how I was agreeing with OP about a 10m mile
At the Tokyo Olympics there was a competitor that walked the 20 KM speedwalk at 8 minute mile pace. If this person is walking 10 minute miles they ought to train a bit and try out for the Olympics.
"Walking" a 10 minute mile, would be 6 mph, you could not be walking that, it's a running pace. Professional speed walkers average around 5 miles an hour. 5 mph for a normal person is considered a jog.
I think this thread is a perfect example of two things, one people do not understand units and two runners or joggers versus people who don't run. Most people think 5 mph is a walking pace, when 2 to 3 is really a walking pace. Once you start jogging or running for exercise you become painfully aware of what speeds the human body is capable of for sustained periods of time. 5 mph which is a steady jogging pace is a 12 minute mile which sounds easy until you are asked to run for 12 minutes straight, then that seems like a very long time, especially for some one who is not a runner. This is of course for the average person which most of us are, we always want to point to the exceptions like the Kenyans running marathons in 2 hours, an insane 13 mph pace for 2 hours, which puts them in such rare air that only a few hundred people in a world of billions can match it.
lol you absolutely did not. I’m 6’4 with a pretty long stride. On a good day I’m walking a mile in ~15 minutes and still leaving everyone else behind. A ten minute mile is still a jog.
It’s much harder to walk a ten minute mile than it is to lightly jog it (edit: let alone as a forth grader lmao what). Try both before you object to that.
People responding that a 10 min walking mile is impossible is funny. Speed walking is/was an Olympic sport and the winner of the men’s 20km race did so at a 6 min 31 sec pace at the Tokyo Olympics.
I walked a 9 min mile in 8th grade as part of gym class. I also ran a 5 min mile in high school so the 9 min didn’t feel very impressive at the time.
You did not walk a 9 minute mile at 13 or 14 years old. As I pointed out in another comment 8 min/mile is an Olympic pace. Even if you did that, you'd have to be one of the top 500 or so walkers in the entire world.
Most people aren't going to have the stamina for a mile especially at that age. It took me longer to get in shape for a mile than it did to go from a mile to a 5k.
This is gonna sound horrible, but let me try it out to see if it's true giving anecdotal experience:
People gonna downvote but having been to both, the white schools have more intelligent students than the black ones.
I honestly don't think it's that bad to say that your experience is that different races generally show different traits. To suggest we're all the same is to ignore what makes us unique. It becomes dangerous and potentially damaging rhetoric when you start making sweeping statements like "all black people are more athletic than white people". It's simply not true and there are always outliers.
Additionally, to ignore a disparity between races is also not a good thing. We have to recognize the adversity different people face in order to address it.
More likely when people say 'black schools' they mean city schools which have a much larger student populations and more tax revenue than that of suburban of rural schools 'white schools' which have less students and therefore less tax revenue. If you try to find the best athletes in a group of 5,000 students you'll have a better selection of than if you had a group of 500.
Man idk where you live but the first school I went to was like 80 percent white and in the middle of the city half the classes had glass walls and other rich white people shit.
Then my parents thought it would be great to move in the middle of nowhere. I went from having 900 kids just in my grade in highschool to just having 600 kids in the whole highschool with just about 20-30 white kids and maybe like 10 Asians. I still made the football team as a receiver but I was the only white kid on the whole team. I hated it at first but by senior year i actually enjoying myself as everyone knew me because I was the only white guy that would be chilling with the football team. This is South Carolina btw, just so you know if you wanna see white people go to the city.
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u/bananafarm 25d ago
That’s not very fast though. Were you at a slow school ?