Thread by @rebootdude

Mile time trial this morning.

What gets measured improves. Still a long way to go but it's a start.

Thank you @Gladwell

What does it take to run the mile in less than 9 minutes?

Not a lot if you are a fit 30 year old runner or fitness professional. Malcolm Gladwell the 57 year old author of Outliers ran it in 5:15 earlier this week beating out a much younger field.

One would think it's easy?

That depends on what your comparative peer group is? 50 year old Pakistani men?

60 year Boston Qualifier who have run the Boston Marathon every year for the last few years?

The middle distance team of Kazakhstan?

Or a younger you from a three years earlier?

A sub-9 min mile in peak form is not easy for me.

But it's also not something that would break me. I don't feel like death after running it. Out of breath yes, but also very much alive.

That would be a sub 7 mile. 6:55 to be exact. Something I last ran 4 years ago. Peak form.

Still I haven't run at this pace in 2 years. So grateful for the 8:47 this morning.

Let's see if we can break 8 before August gets here.

I would still be a two minute and 40 seconds slower than @Gladwell but I would be faster than a younger me.

And sometimes that is enough.