{"id":1985,"date":"2010-05-26T12:10:14","date_gmt":"2010-05-26T17:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/?p=1985"},"modified":"2010-05-26T22:10:40","modified_gmt":"2010-05-27T03:10:40","slug":"quarter-mile-speed-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/2010\/quarter-mile-speed-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Quarter-Mile Speed Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<table align=\"right\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<div class=\"zemanta-img\" style=\"margin: 1em; display: block;\">\n<div>\n<dl class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 310px;\">\n<dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Image:Usain_Bolt_Olympics_Celebration.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Usain Bolt in celebration after his 100m victo...\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/7\/7e\/Usain_Bolt_Olympics_Celebration.jpg\/300px-Usain_Bolt_Olympics_Celebration.jpg\" alt=\"Usain Bolt in celebration after his 100m victo...\" width=\"300\" height=\"380\" \/><\/a><\/dt>\n<dd class=\"wp-caption-dd zemanta-img-attribution\" style=\"font-size: 0.8em;\">Image via <a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Image:Usain_Bolt_Olympics_Celebration.jpg\">Wikipedia<\/a><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>How fast can you run a 1\/4 of a mile, 400 meters, or once around the track? \u00a0My 400 meter PR is 52 seconds which I obtained in the last race of my college career in the middle of an 800 during a 4&#215;800 meter relay, the second 400 didn&#8217;t go quite as well! \u00a0If I had been able to continue that pace it would have been a 3:28 mile!! Or a 1:30 marathon. \u00a0That would be amazing, too bad I couldn&#8217;t even hold it for a second 400 meters!<\/p>\n<p>The current marathon world record is 2:03:59 by Haile Gebrselassie which is a 4:43 mile or a 70 second 400. \u00a0The current 100 meter world record is 9.58 held by Usain Bolt, this is a 2:35 mile pace or 1:07:19 marathon, impressive!<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s the point of all these numbers? A writer for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/sports\/91771304.html?page=2&amp;c=y\">Star-Tribune<\/a> decided to try and match Jason Lehmkuhle&#8217;s Boston Marathon pace (5:03) for 400 meters. Lehmkule ran a 2:12:24 for ninth place. \u00a0Can you run a flat out 5:03? My <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/2009\/race-review-2009-tc-1-mile\/\">TC 1 Mile<\/a> time is 5:26 from last year, so I couldn&#8217;t even keep up with Jason for a mile. \u00a0So Lehmkule&#8217;s average 400 meter time was 75 seconds. \u00a0The Strib writer, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/bios\/10645736.html\">Michael Rand<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/athlinks.com\/myresults.aspx?rid=40431492\">athlinks<\/a>), ran a 76 second quarter and was in his own words &#8220;spent&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>It was an interesting experiment that shows how amazing the elite runners really are. \u00a0Rand is in training for a marathon and has a PR of 4:30. \u00a0I like what he says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I could not quite even run 1 percent of a marathon distance at a world-class pace &#8212; let alone conceive of actually running the other 99 percent or so that fast.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>How far can you run at a world class pace?<\/p>\n<p>Be sure to check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/sports\/91771304.html?page=2&amp;c=y\">full article and video<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\" href=\"http:\/\/reblog.zemanta.com\/zemified\/d7764878-96ce-4b76-8de8-ee9858c3e27f\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/reblog_e.png?w=625\" alt=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\" \/><\/a><span class=\"zem-script more-related pretty-attribution\"><script src=\"http:\/\/static.zemanta.com\/readside\/loader.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image via Wikipedia How fast can you run a 1\/4 of a mile, 400 meters, or once around the track? \u00a0My 400 meter PR is 52 seconds which I obtained in the last race of my college career in the middle of an 800 during a 4&#215;800 meter relay, the second 400 didn&#8217;t go quite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,14,53],"tags":[266,249,679,63,62,152,569],"class_list":["post-1985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information","category-marathon","category-mile","tag-boston-marathon","tag-haile-gebrselassie","tag-marathon","tag-road-running","tag-running","tag-star-tribune","tag-usain-bolt"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4iaAv-w1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":218,"url":"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/2008\/half-training-week-nine\/","url_meta":{"origin":1985,"position":0},"title":"Half Training: Week Nine","author":"crossn81","date":"March 31, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Well another week down! 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