Any runners?

What is your current PB.. Assuming that you can even run a mile. I'm at 6:17 right now.

No doubt Nat will be able to run a 4 minute mile but what about about everyone else?

I only run on the treadmill and do 2 miles in 14 mins

Used to run at 7min 30 sec pace many years ago.

These days I just set myself a target of 600 calories on the treadmill and am happy just to achieve it irrespective of the time!

When I was younger I did an awful lot of running. I competed at schoolboy level at 800, 1500 and 3,000 metres and I also did the Bolton Marathon in 82.
One of my goals was always to run a mile and a half in under 8 minutes. I eventually achieved a time of 7 minutes 58 seconds at 31 years of age.
If anyone wants to get seriously fit then the mile and a half test is a great way to do it. It's the optimum distance for cardio vascular activity. A fit person should be able to run a mile and a half in under 10 minutes  but for an average person it takes around 15 minutes.
If you have the time then just work out a route from your home and back which is exactly one and a half miles. On your first run don't push it. Take it nice and easy and at the end make a note of your time. Try it the next day and see if you have improved. By the end of the first week you will surprised at how much you have shaved off your initial time. By the end of the month you will be looking at the 10 minute mark and once you have achieved the magic under 10 minute time, you will want to break the 8 minute barrier.
If you can spare 20 minutes a day and are prepared to dedicate yourself to the task then you will be amazed at how much progress you will make.
The important thing to remember is that the distance must be one and a half miles and don't push yourself too hard in the first week. Every small gain is a bonus. 
Remember, being fit is not about how fast you can run, it's about how quickly you recover from physical exertion.
Don't expect to run under 10 minutes if you are overweight. I was only eleven and a half stone when I achieved my lifetime best and I stopped running after that.

Reebok Trotter wrote:When I was younger I did an awful lot of running. I competed at schoolboy level at 800, 1500 and 3,000 metres and I also did the Bolton Marathon in 82.
One of my goals was always to run a mile and a half in under 8 minutes. I eventually achieved a time of 7 minutes 58 seconds at 31 years of age.
If anyone wants to get seriously fit then the mile and a half test is a great way to do it. It's the optimum distance for cardio vascular activity. A fit person should be able to run a mile and a half in under 10 minutes  but for an average person it takes around 15 minutes.
If you have the time then just work out a route from your home and back which is exactly one and a half miles. On your first run don't push it. Take it nice and easy and at the end make a note of your time. Try it the next day and see if you have improved. By the end of the first week you will surprised at how much you have shaved off your initial time. By the end of the month you will be looking at the 10 minute mark and once you have achieved the magic under 10 minute time, you will want to break the 8 minute barrier.
If you can spare 20 minutes a day and are prepared to dedicate yourself to the task then you will be amazed at how much progress you will make.
The important thing to remember is that the distance must be one and a half miles and don't push yourself too hard in the first week. Every small gain is a bonus. 
Remember, being fit is not about how fast you can run, it's about how quickly you recover from physical exertion.
Don't expect to run under 10 minutes if you are overweight. I was only eleven and a half stone when I achieved my lifetime best and I stopped running after that.

I do this run a lot too but I copy the royal marine requirement which is having to run 1.5 miles x2 with a minute rest in between. First run to be done in under 12:30 & the second to be done in under 10:30.. Very tough but a great way to get fit

You should never run, always stand your ground...

Think you missed your vocation RT, should have been a personal trainer.

Boggersbelief wrote:What is your current PB.. Assuming that you can even run a mile. I'm at 6:17 right now.

Look at me! Look at me!

Bet there's a few runners on here.

Reebok Trotter wrote:When I was younger I did an awful lot of running. I competed at schoolboy level at 800, 1500 and 3,000 metres and I also did the Bolton Marathon in 82.
One of my goals was always to run a mile and a half in under 8 minutes. I eventually achieved a time of 7 minutes 58 seconds at 31 years of age.
If anyone wants to get seriously fit then the mile and a half test is a great way to do it. It's the optimum distance for cardio vascular activity. A fit person should be able to run a mile and a half in under 10 minutes  but for an average person it takes around 15 minutes.
If you have the time then just work out a route from your home and back which is exactly one and a half miles. On your first run don't push it. Take it nice and easy and at the end make a note of your time. Try it the next day and see if you have improved. By the end of the first week you will surprised at how much you have shaved off your initial time. By the end of the month you will be looking at the 10 minute mark and once you have achieved the magic under 10 minute time, you will want to break the 8 minute barrier.
If you can spare 20 minutes a day and are prepared to dedicate yourself to the task then you will be amazed at how much progress you will make.
The important thing to remember is that the distance must be one and a half miles and don't push yourself too hard in the first week. Every small gain is a bonus. 
Remember, being fit is not about how fast you can run, it's about how quickly you recover from physical exertion.
Don't expect to run under 10 minutes if you are overweight. I was only eleven and a half stone when I achieved my lifetime best and I stopped running after that.

I used to do similar sort of thing RT about thirty years ago and was 10 stone wet through!! I stopped running about 1990 and the weight soon went on. Used to run the mile at school in summer on the track, basically cos nobody else would, and soon found a way to "switch off" and get on with it!!

A mile and a half a day is enough to get you fit. I couldn't run two mile a day on a treadmill because I would soon get bored.
In 1977 I ran a 30 kilometre race ( 18 miles )  in a decent time and I figured that a marathon was only a few miles more and would be a doddle. How wrong was I. I didn't put the training in like I should have done and around the 15 mile mark I was really struggling with my left knee. I completed the course in just over 4 hours but it took months before my knee was back to normal.
I certainly wouldn't recommend marathon running to anybody. I don't think the human body is designed to take a pounding for 26 miles especially the knee joints. One marathon was enough for me.
Any swimmers on here? Another one of my obsessions was trying to swim two lengths underwater in a 25 metre swimming pool. 50 metres sounds easy but it isn't.

Natasha Whittam wrote:

Look at me! Look at me!

Why? What have you done now?

Swimming bored the bollox off me, I was happy doing a breadth then I hit the wall of my tolerance. I fell in the lodge whilst fishing more times than I went in a swimming pool!!

Natasha Whittam wrote:

Boggersbelief wrote:What is your current PB.. Assuming that you can even run a mile. I'm at 6:17 right now.

Look at me! Look at me!

I can't it burns

If anybody's interested, the distance between the car park entrance at Moss Bank and the bus terminus at Barrow Bridge is exactly 0.75 miles, so if you run there and back it's a mile and a half.

I know this because I used it as my training run when I was considering joining the RAF at 18 and it was a cracking route because it combines flat sections with inclines.

As RT says, 1.5 miles in under 12 minutes is used as the standard for fitness selection tests because it requires anaerobic respiration and is a good indicator of general CV efficiency levels.

My best time for the 1.5 mile distance was 10m 34 seconds.

But that was a long, long time ago...........

I bet Scott is a good runner

Mr Magoo wrote:I bet Scott is a good runner

Scott's in the army so he's in top shape.

bwfc1874 wrote:

Mr Magoo wrote:I bet Scott is a good runner

Scott's in the army so he's in top shape, for a fat bastid.

I like to watch people run.

I ran the Berlin marathon in 2010, it pissed it down for 26 miles (could have swam half of it). Soon after I damaged my ligaments in my knee so can only run for a couple of mile now. Played 5 a side last week and did a full on sprint from one end of the pitch to the other, took me about 10 minutes to recover.