What is a good mile time for a college athlete?

Athletes running under the four-minute mark in the mile are pretty balanced when it comes to class. The 13 freshmen under the mark might point to athletes being faster coming out of high school, rather than experience in college making runners faster.
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How fast should a college athlete run a mile?

Most of them averaged about 4:15 (or whatever a 3:50-3:55 1500m is).
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What is the average athlete mile time?

A noncompetitive, relatively in-shape runner usually completes one mile in about 9 to 10 minutes, on average. If you're new to running, you might run one mile in closer to 12 to 15 minutes as you build up endurance. Elite marathon runners average a mile in around 4 to 5 minutes.
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What is a good mile time for a high school athlete?

Mile Times for Teens

In most parts of the U.S., high school boys who can run a sub-4:00 mile can be very competitive on high school track and cross country teams (the most elite can run an under 3:60 mile). The same is true for high school girls who can run a sub-5:00 mile (the fastest times are below 4:40).
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What is a good mile time to get a scholarship?

If you can run about 40 seconds in the 400, 1:30 in the 800 and 3:20 in the mile, you will have not only a scholarship, well, you'll be able to go anywhere you want.
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How many miles do D1 athletes run?

While most high school athletes will never run more than 50 miles a week, the average healthy collegiate cross-country athlete logs anywhere from 70-100 miles a week. The mileage especially increases in the summer months where building a huge aerobic base is the key to a successful season.
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How fast can Bolt run a mile?

Three minutes, forty-three seconds, and thirteen hundredths of a second is the fastest that a human has ever run a mile, as far as we know.
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What's the fastest high school mile?

This past Saturday, Archbishop Wood senior Gary Martin set a record by running a mile in 3:57.98 with no pacer aid. His feat broke the record previously held by Olympic silver medalist Jim Ryun in 1965. Ryun's mark was 3:58.3.
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Is a 6 minute mile fast?

Running a 6 minute mile is recognized as a true test of a recreational runner. It is fast, but not elite fast. And, if given the will and dedication, many can achieve it.
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Is a 7 minute mile good?

Bagging a 7 minute mile is a great goal for the recreational runner. It is fast, but with determination and hard work, it can be an achievable and rewarding goal.
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What is a D1 5K time?

NCAA D1: 5K Under 16:10.
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Is running 7 miles Good?

According to Runners World, 7 miles is long enough for half marathon training. After all, 6 miles short of a marathon is long enough for marathon training. So 6 miles short of a half marathon is long enough for half training.
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Has anyone ever ran a 4 minute mile?

In Oxford, England, 25-year-old medical student Roger Bannister cracks track and field's most notorious barrier: the four-minute mile. Bannister, who was running for the Amateur Athletic Association against his alma mater, Oxford University, won the mile race with a time of 3 minutes and 59.4 seconds.
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Has anyone ran a 4 minute mile?

On May 6, 1954, Englishman Roger Bannister became the first to run a mile in under four minutes. Bannister, who went on to become a doctor, accomplished the feat during a race in Oxford. His time was three minutes, 59.4 seconds.
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Who ran the first under 4 minute mile?

Richard Cavendish describes the race in which Roger Bannister ran the first sub-four-minute mile, on May 6th, 1954. Roger Bannister, 1953. Breaking four minutes for the mile had been an obsession among middle-distance runners for years.
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What was Oprah's marathon time?

Oprah Winfrey- 4:29:20

In 1994 Oprah Winfrey took on the Marine Corps Marathon. Her 19 month journey inspired the masses thanks to a documentary film crew that accompanied her throughout her training. In those 19 months, Oprah Winfrey lost 72 pounds in order to reach her goal race weight of 150 pounds.
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Can Usain Bolt run a mile?

Usain Bolt's Agent Confirms the Sprinter Has Never Run a Mile | Bleacher Report | Latest News, Videos and Highlights.
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Can a human run a 3 minute mile?

Common wisdom and scientific knowledge perceived a sub-four-minute mile to be an insurmountable barrier until Sir Roger Bannister set a world record time of 3min 59.4sec in 1954. Since then, a new world record has been set 18 times, the current record of 3:43.13 being clocked in 1999.
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How many runners have broken the 4 minute mile?

It was first achieved in 1954 by Roger Bannister, at age 25, in 3:59.4. As of April 2021, the "four-minute barrier" has been broken by 1,663 athletes, and is now a standard of professional middle distance runners in several cultures.
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How fast do you have to be to run d3 cross country?

Division III runners run miles too. 25 a week ain't gonna cut it. You need to get to at least 60-70 mpw gradually BUT GET THERE by next summer.
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