Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Your best mile time... then and now?

Was never very fast as I have short legs, for my torso size...

But played soccer in Junior High and High School. In high school, we ran 8 miles with the cross country team and then had 2 hours of practice.. Didn't have speed, but definitely had a lot of endurance.

Use to hike a lot in high school also, on weekends sometimes 20 miles or more in a day...

Will turn 71 this month.. those days are long gone.

Was a sprinter and OK, and stretched at times to do the 880 in about 2:05. Best mile was about 5:40. I could not run a mile today, let alone time it.

Yeah - age....

My morning exercise consists mostly of turning the computer on to see what you guys are up to.

Ain't no way I'm running anywhere, fast or slow, now, without the right motivation.

In high school 2:04 880 and 4:40 mile.

Now I only run to the fridge, or more likely the bathroom, and I don't use a timer, its a "results oriented" run.

Some of the times now are crazy good for kids when you get to the district or state levels and have weeded out the wheezers.

THEN: 7 MIN.

NOW: 7 HOURS !!!

To get on the fire department I had to run the mile in under 10 minutes. Once I got the job never had to run again. Took the police test and had to run under 8 minutes. That was 40 years ago. Never was any kind of runner, sprint or distance.

Thats moving pretty good!

Depends entirely on which vehicle I am driving.


But when I walk in the mornings with my wife I like to saunter along, whilst she is one of those buggers with a battery up her arse and thinks it is a bloody race.

Then: I could run it in 8 minutes.

Now: I can run it in47 seconds...Nissan Exterra

Yeah, it was really eye opening this season to see how fast some kids are. As insanely fast as that is, at 2:04 and 4:40 you are qualifying for the states sectionals but going home without a medal. HS kids are running sub 2:00 in the 800. Crazy impressive.

Not sure I ever ran a mile.
Never been chased that far.
Never wanted to chase anything that far at speed.



Heck, I've never really liked to walk.
To go somewhere, spend time with a girl, hunt.....sure. if I have a reason.
But when the point is just to walk?


Just can't quite wrap my head around the folks that drive a car to the school track
to walk in circles. Time, gas.....to go in circles and only end up back at home.

Some used to go in town and flop the block.

I don't get in the car for no more reason than driving.

Used to run 5 miles a day, six days a week. Had a nice hilly road down to the river, there and back was five miles of up and down exactly. Got to where it was a 35 minute run. Then the knee started acting up, so I dropped to three days a week. Then I cut back to two miles. Now, I only run when there is some good reason for it. Can still do a mile if needed. Looking into getting a good bike and riding it for cardio. Its seven miles to work, and I can run a little used back road most of the way there.

I can vaguely remember running.

In the AF, we had to do an annual PT test. I think I managed to pass the 1.5 mile in 12 minute run once. Never was a jock. After I quit flying and went Reserves, I just filled in my annual PT test card every year with a "Passed" notation. The closest I've gotten to running in the past five decades has been the occasional hurry across a crosswalk.

Edit: Dillon, what makes me giggle are the idjits who make three circles of the parking lot until they get a close parking spot - to the gym.

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My fastest time in USMC PFT was 3 miles in 23:32, I was a smoker, and hated running !
My NCOIC used to smoke during the runs, and still outran the rest of the shop.

I don’t know my fastest time at my peak, but my best Marine Corps 3-mile PFT time was 21:30 (not blazing I know) which came out to three miles at 7:10 per mile. We rarely ran less than 2.5 miles so I never really timed a mile. Now at 42, I can go 7:45 on a good day at the track. Knowing my 200, 400 and 800 paces help me keep it under 8:00. Ran a 5k a few years ago at 24:40 and was pleased to get it!

In high school I was a pole vaulter and a smoker. Middle of the pack fast but hated running. After smoking for about 15 years, I quit and started jogging. I ran my first marathon at 40. I could string enough 8 minute miles together to finish in under 3:40. 10 years of that took a toll and I cut it back. I remember on my 55th birthday, I did 50 push ups, 50 sit ups and ran 5 miles in 40 minutes. It was down hill after that. After learning that I would need a hip replacement some day, I walk now. I realized that I’m getting older. Never thought it would happen!

I always walked the mile in school

In high school unofficial mile was around 5, ran 800 in 2:02 repeatedly, 440 in 52 and ran 48.7 and 48.8 three times in two day in college. Was offered full track scholarship for next year and started laughing,s aid uncle sam already had dibs as lottery number 40 and no student deferments. In military ran 4:30 something mile on organizatin day in jungle boots. PT test two mile in boots, ran right around 12 minutes

Now due to injuries, can walk a 15 minute mile.

Last time I ran mile yellow jackets were involved.