Thornton Runs Six Minute Mile

Mr. Thornton completes the six minute mile challenge! Thornton did NO training for this and was trying to break 6 minutes as a bet.

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[theburg520]

what was that thing the person used to measure the track at the beginning?

[bagofrocks30]

The wheel was used to measure the extra 9.344 meters since the track is 400 meters (as most are now) and a mile is actually 1609.344 meters.

[theburg520]

@bagofrocks30 no what is it called

[bagofrocks30]

It is called a wheel or measuring wheel. You can get them in many increments (feet, meters....)

[Ethanbat]

Some tricks for fast long distance--

1) No alcohol

2) Carb/veggie/protein diet

3) Run four or five times / week

4) Train at a 6 mile pace on a treadmill for 1/4 mile stints over several miles, running at a comfortable pace on the alternate 1/4 mile segments.

5) On alternate days, run at alternating speed on a grade.

6) Keep strides fast and short, and try to avoid leaping or bouncing up and down as you run.

7) Continuously hyperaerate

8) Pace yourself with a stopwatch

[ThatDunneKid190]

Why was there a crowd to watch this?? im a junior in high school 6 ft 3 in 190 pounds and i ran the mile in 5:54, where is my fucking crowd!!?? lol

[PeinItachi]

My mile-time is 3:12 and I'm 3 years old..

[AwesomePossumVids]

Don't try to brag about how you think your probably made up mile time is impressive. I'm 6 years old and run a mile in 73 seconds.

[thegodofyou666]

Most people college cross country teams can do 5 miles in less than 30 minutes... Do that.

[TennisPlayer1922]

5:48 is pretty good for a 7th grader. My mile is around 4:40 and im 13

[mgymnast99]

My fastest is 5:48 but I'm only 4 foot 9 and 84 lbs.....I'm in 7th grade.

[sweetburlap]

@theburg520 its called a trundle wheel as far as i remember

[cobrien1977]

@LMaster1 : yes. I was talking about randomly grabbing 100 people off the street and taking them to a track. some may be olympians. most will be overweight couch potatoes. my point. I've done non-running cardio training for over a year, 3 times per week and have gone from a 10 minute mile to 7 minute mile. i can see how shaving time off gets harder the lower you go. hopefully i'll get to 6 minutes but its not a critical goal for me. just one that would be cool to meet.

[LMaster1]

@cobrien1977 Yea, I agree as long as we are using could as in right this moment if you grabbed and hauled em to a track. Could as in have the potential/can with training and weight loss then I'd have to say most. Probably 90% or more.

[cobrien1977]

@LMaster1 : great, then we agree. my previous posts were arguing with some dude who said most people could run a 6 minute mile. i said hell no and said that 2-3 out of 100 could.