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tedginn05

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I came to thinking of this the last two days. Yesterday, in my personal fitness class, which is full of athletes(mostly football players) we were told our final exam would be a timed mile.

The teacher, told us anything under 6:20 was a "A", 6:21 up to 7:10 "B", and so on.

I ran it in just under/around(He just told me I got a "C") 8:00 minutes. Very disappointing for me. Knowing that about a week and half before that, I ran it under 7:00. The difference being this time I wasn't ready to run it, and it was very humid outside(And this was 8:00 in the morning). And my asthma was bad in the humidity.

The funny thing about it, the guy that teaches my class, that is his only class of the day, the rest of the day he is a security/administrator guy. I asked the other two teachers who teach personal fitness classes also what was a "A" in their classes. One said under 8 minutes and the other said 10 minutes.

So just wondering, is this a "terrible" time. Or what?
 
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My first question is: If the class is full of football players what are you doing in it? Second, a scrawny guy who calls himself an athlete such as you should have no problem running a 7 minute mile. Personally I feel like those times discriminate against fatasses. Even in my prime in college I would of had a hard time with a 7 minute mile, and I was even in pretty good shape for a 300 pounder. IMO offensive linemen shouldn't have to run a mile in under 8 minutes. No Teddy you are not an offensive lineman.

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I'm about 6'0", 175 lbs, and I run the mile consistenly at around 6:00-6:15. However, I agree with 'hawg at the fact that it discriminates against more heavy-set people. I mean some people are fat, and it is their fault, but others are just naturally big, and there's nothing you can do about speed.

For our exam next week in Health, we all have to run under ten minutes (and we get a 100). As you go over, you lose a certain amount of points. In my honest opinion, I think that's a much more fair testing policy.
 
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exhawg said:
My first question is: If the class is full of football players what are you doing in it? Second, a scrawny guy who calls himself an athlete such as you should have no problem running a 7 minute mile. Personally I feel like those times discriminate against fatasses. Even in my prime in college I would of had a hard time with a 7 minute mile, and I was even in pretty good shape for a 300 pounder. IMO offensive linemen shouldn't have to run a mile in under 8 minutes. No Teddy you are not an offensive lineman.
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The class is mostly football players. Also there is 2 girls in the class, who had to run the same times, and neither did.

Two lineman in the class, but they weren't 300 pounders. More like 220-230-ish. And like I said, a week and half ago I ran the time under 7 minutes. I do have an exercise-induced asthma condition that comes and goes. I don't neccessarly blame that on the bad time, as much as the humidity outside.

I think only 1 kid got a "A" on the "final".
 
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8:00 is not a good mile time IMO...unless you are going to continue running for another 3+ miles at that pace. 8 minutes is not a horrible mile or anything, but not an "A" in my opinion. His grading scale seemed pretty fair to me.
 
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tedginn05 said:
The class is mostly football players. Also there is 2 girls in the class, who had to run the same times, and neither did.

Two lineman in the class, but they weren't 300 pounders. More like 220-230-ish. And like I said, a week and half ago I ran the time under 7 minutes. I do have an exercise-induced asthma condition that comes and goes. I don't neccessarly blame that on the bad time, as much as the humidity outside.

I think only 1 kid got a "A" on the "final".
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Seriously, 1 kid ran under 6 minutes. Did they lengthen the mile in the past 10 years?
6 minutes would have finished about 10th in my class, and I graduated with 62.
 
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8:00 for a high school male is quite pitiful. Either you didn't try, didn't pace yourself at all, or you're way out of shape.

I ran under 6:00 in sixth grade - under 5:00 in high school.... and yes, I'm trying to brag.
 
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BCSBust said:
I'm about 6'0", 175 lbs, and I run the mile consistenly at around 6:00-6:15. However, I agree with 'hawg at the fact that it discriminates against more heavy-set people. I mean some people are fat, and it is their fault, but others are just naturally big, and there's nothing you can do about speed.

For our exam next week in Health, we all have to run under ten minutes (and we get a 100). As you go over, you lose a certain amount of points. In my honest opinion, I think that's a much more fair testing policy.
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I think I could 'for sure' get my time down to the "A" level. Earlier in the year our class was conditioning(running) almost everyday. As the year has came to a close, the conditioning has dropped. For about 2 weeks after spring break, our teacher was out and we didn't do anything except some light running with the regular gym classes. I think if we had kept the training up, my time would have been much less.
 
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8:00 for a high school male is quite pitiful. Either you didn't try, didn't pace yourself at all, or you're way out of shape.
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I realize that may have been my problem. We hadn't been timed before for a grade. He told us it was for the final and as soon as he started the time everyone started sprinting. I didn't pace myself, neither did anybody else for that matter. I think before when we weren't going for a grade, we weren't so worried about it and in the end kept the correct pace.
 
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Is that Philo HS?
That's what you get in the MVL.

Not crackin, but ran 5:31 in 8th grade track...MVL...first and only year I ran.
Obviously not one of the cool kids here, but props if Philo is where you are.
 
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