Sub-5 Miling

A Sub 5 minute mile at age 50 or beyond is indeed pretty hard as I found out in March. The short story is I just squeezed in under 5. The full story follows.

These comments from Kyle, one of my fellow Sub-5 Milers, cracked me up. Bobby McGee's training is working a treat on Kyle. I don't want to embarrass him, but I believe it's true to say he's never run so fast in his life...and bear in mind our goal races start in August and it's only April...so I got an email report of his road`race in Greeley on Sunday, in which he's disappointed to come in second overall (he's over 50, remember) averaging near enough 5:30 pace for the two miles.

This is what he said (quoted with permisson):

"Finished 2nd overall in a time of 11:17. The winning time was 11:04. I was

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Never mind the four-minute mile; once you get to a certain age you adjust your sights. There are a bunch of us geezers and geezeresses (?) here in Boulder who have decided that a worthy goal is to break 5 minutes for the mile.

World-class coach Bobby McGee, who cut his teeth training sub-4 milers in South Africa back in the day, didn't need much persuading to get involved. Before you could say "Roger Bannister", he'd come up with a 45-week specialised training program that will take a small group of us from base work right throught to a peak of speed in August next year -- just in time to sweep the Pearl Street Mile, the classic street mile sponsored by the city of Boulder.