Why 1500m instead of 1600m

Tags: steve scott 41 , ryan lamppa , olympics 70 , bbtm news ELEVATE Bring Back the Mile as the premier event in the sport, and increase interest in and media coverage of the Mile for both those who love the distance as well as the general public. Join us, and go Mile! Thanks for joining the movement and being a Mile Maniac. It states that you should never increase your weekly mileage by more than 10 percent over the previous week.

The 10PR gains its importance from the fact that the vast majority of running injuries are overuse injuries. By the time you get t o the top level, there is only a minor fraction of the original energy.

Without knowing more detail, running more often is better. Though more experienced runners may not see as much improvement as these novices, brief, intense running will certainly do some good. So if you only have 10 minutes to run, go for it. When you have more than 10 minutes, however, go longer. Your fitness benefits will grow as your workouts lengthen. Running as little as 5 to 10 minutes per day could greatly reduce your risk of heart attack and stroke.

Running as little as 30 to 60 minutes per week — or perhaps just 5 to 10 minutes per day — could greatly reduce the risk of heart attack and stroke, a new study suggests.

Running for 10 minutes a day can help you lose weight. According to Harvard Health Publishing, running at 5 miles per hour which equates to minute miles can burn calories in a pound person.

In the mile, I always knew where I stood in relation to the rest of the race, and how far I had come and had yet to go. But the 1, was always disorienting.

Was I gauging my laps from the start of the race? Or from the finish? When I had completed two laps, the natural halfway point, I was more than halfway done, which meant the final lap came up on me faster than I felt it should. Complicating it all is the problem of splits. In distance races, the key to the race is your pace.

In the mile, keeping track of your pace is simple—after every lap, a coach would read out quarter-mile splits. In the 1,, depending on where the coach is standing, you may have to calculate your pace after and meters.

Rather than hang up his spikes as adulthood set in, Pete never stopped running, and is nationally competitive in over races. He finished fourth in a masters exhibition 1, held at the US Olympic trials, and the official results illustrate the peculiar nature of the 1,, with splits at , , and 1, meters. Pete, who works in finance, says that after years of racing, he still struggles with the 1, splits. You're still running m, so you shouldn't be penalized. And remember the officials we mentioned above.

They might love it. Mile legend Jim Ryun , the first HSer sub-4, holding the t-shirt that says it all. Sign the petition and spread the word. Bug your coaches, bug your parents and anyone else who will listen.

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So, the Mile isn't 4 laps around the meter track? However, when I realized that the time converted to a mark just over five minutes in the Mile, I was disappointed.