Mike,
Funny you should mention this as yesterday I decided to go out for a quick run to get rid of this beer belly. Whether it will last or not I don't know but I managed to get to the end of Holmes House Avenue! (Felt like I was dying though!)
Anyway - onto your question. When we were at school, at the start of every term we had to run 1.5 miles. Now my memory is a little sketchy but I seem to remember we managed it in around 11-15 minutes. Bear in mind we had to pace ourselves and were knackered after it! The more portly lads did it in about 17 -20 minutes from memory.
Well it's a start...
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20 minutes to run a mile and a half? It only takes me 20 minutes to walk a mile. Huh, school run meant something different back then.
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andymc
Vroom, vroom - mmm, doughnuts ...
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Like I said - the fat kids.
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In fairness, I always hated the three mile slog around the playing fields that was the mandatory warm-up for PE (or as we well knew, a handy way for the PE teacher to ignore us for over half an hour). Never understood why I found it so hard to keep up, even with the fat kids, just thought I was unfit. Several years after leaving school I was diagnosed with asthma. No such thing as free medical treatment where I grew up, visits to the doctor were expensive. Ah well, a brilliant career as a long distance runner could have been mine ....
Mike, in preparation for the run I would try to get in shape a bit by going for some long walks as briskly as you can manage. Apparently using a couple of walking sticks like ski poles really helps to improve aerobic fitness. (t.i.c. mode on//) This site www.mikes-walks.co.uk/ might help. (t.i.c. mode off//)
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andymc
Vroom, vroom - mmm, doughnuts ...
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(t.i.c. mode on//) This site www.mikes-walks.co.uk/ might help. (t.i.c. mode off//) -- andymc Vroom, vroom - mmm, doughnuts ...
Very good site- I recommend it highly, but I can assure you that its owner avoids aerobic exercise with a fervour that is almost religious. As for walking poles, I do possess some, and they have their uses, but having seen plenty of people using them on the flat and indeed on the street in Austria the other year (Wellness Walking, they call it, and have special little power wedges on the end of the poles), they don't half make you look a right divvy !
I find that the minute I change from walking to running, or even jogging, my heart rate shoots up to a point that is well above what it should be, and I don't think that does me any good. Will take some advice next time I'm in the gym
Go on, get out of the car...
www.mikes-walks.co.uk
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>Huh, school run meant something different back then.
indeed it did, 5 woodbine as soon as school out of sight normally
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>>It only takes me 20 minutes to walk a mile.>>
As long as that...:-)
Average walking speed is four mph and I walk the four-fifths of a mile from my home to the club for a pint(!) of Guinness in around 10-12 minutes - what's more my three score and 10 is not all that many years away.....
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Everywhere I walk is uphill though. Leastways, it feels like that ...
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andymc
Vroom, vroom - mmm, doughnuts ...
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I've never understood the principle of a 'fun' run!
But if a fit athelete can do a mile in 4 minutes i'd go for somewhere between 20 and 25 minutes at a steady jog.
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If you need to go a mile anywhere you go by car. That's what this site is all about.
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Presuming the idea was to run the distance rather than win a race, presuimng that you do not smoke and are not overweight or troubled by any specific issues, then you would walk it in 50 minutes.
Therefore I would guess around 30 - 35 minutes would be a reasonable estimate.
However, you should be doing a couple of stiff walks over a 1.2 -2 mile ish distance beforehand to prepare yourself. And then do pace yourself; if you go off as fast as you can at the beginning, then you will die after 1 mile and not finish. You shoudl run about 60% of the speed that you feel you could do at the beginning - which is likely to be 100% of what you can manage by the end.
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Cheers, Mark. Stiff Walking could be my middle names, and even at this time of year and present weather conditions it's not unknown for ne to come home from work, chuck a rucksack on for a bit of weight, and go walk a four mile circuit, usually a few minutes over the hour.
If I go to the gym, the only way I can get my heart rate into the cardio zone is to walk, briskly, with the treadmill at the maximum gradient - If I try to jog or run, my heart rate goes up to 160 or more, which I suspect is well above what it should be.
I suspect I need to ask somebody at the gym
Go on, get out of the car...
www.mikes-walks.co.uk
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IIRC Max heartrate should not exceed 220 - age in years. There are 2 bands, one for fitness, and one for weight loss, which are something like 60-70% and 70-80% of max rate. Can't remember which is which though, but I have an idea it appears the 'wrong' way around and fitness is the lower band.
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RichardW
Is it illogical? It must be Citroen....
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Richard - I seem to remember (will check later today), that on the machines in my gym, for a bloke of my age, the 'fat burn' range is something like 109-125 and the cardio is 125-145.
I know if i plug in my age/weight for the fat burn is sets me a target of 113 or thereabouts and 135 for cardio
Go on, get out of the car...
www.mikes-walks.co.uk
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220 - age is, broadly speaking, rubbish. Provided that this isn't the first exercise you've had in years, you should be able to tell exactly what your limit is as you can work perfectly well up to it, and then a bit over you practically drop from exhaustion.
I'm 20 and have regularly had my heart at 220+ when on the bike. (According to my trusty Lidl HRM, anyway!)
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220 minus age is what I have been told by cardiologists, I have been through a couple of rounds of cardiac tests (no heart problem fortunately though a lung condition dignosed) which included Bruce protocol exercise tests, walking and running on an ever steepening treadmill, they only let your heart rate get to 220 minus your age which the first time around was 181 for me.
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Nobody has asked, so I suppose I must.
What is the point of 3miles 564yards, or have I completely missed the point?
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Don
it's a 5 k fun run, but im only going to do 3.whatever miles, as my legs are calibrated in imperial
Go on, get out of the car...
www.mikes-walks.co.uk
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