{"id":10994,"date":"2010-06-22T17:07:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-22T17:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/today-i-ran-twice-as-slow-as-the-worlds-fastest\/"},"modified":"2021-07-20T23:26:09","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T23:26:09","slug":"today-i-ran-twice-as-slow-as-the-worlds-fastest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/today-i-ran-twice-as-slow-as-the-worlds-fastest\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-10994 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/today-i-ran-twice-as-slow-as-the-worlds-fastest\/attachment\/10995\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/tumblr_l4f7h3hUTo1qzozgbo1_400.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/tumblr_l4f7h3hUTo1qzozgbo1_400.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/tumblr_l4f7h3hUTo1qzozgbo1_400.jpg?zoom=2&amp;resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><strong>Today, I ran twice as slow as the world&rsquo;s fastest mile!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I started exercising again after a 10 year pause, and decided to create a goal, thinking it would be help keep me motivated. I wanted to keep it simple and practical and wanted it to have something to do with running a mile around the Midtown YWCA indoor track.<\/p>\n<p>Running a &ldquo;Four-Minute-Mile&rdquo; sounded cool, but that&rsquo;s something I know I&rsquo;ll ever do. That&rsquo;s what elite runners do, and I don&rsquo;t want to be an elite runner. Maybe a Five-Minute-Mile? Ugh.<\/p>\n<p>Then I had it. What if I double the time of the world&rsquo;s record for running one mile? I&rsquo;ll work to run twice as slow as the world&rsquo;s fastest mile!<\/p>\n<p>Wikipedia.org has a page &ldquo;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mile_run_world_record_progression\" rel=\"noopener\">Mile  run world record  progression<\/a>&rdquo; and states that the men&rsquo;s world record for running one mile is:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>3 minutes, 43 seconds, 13 one-hundredth seconds<br \/><\/strong>By Hicham El Guerrouj, from Morocco<br \/>7 July 1999<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>So, two times that is:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>7 minutes, 26 seconds, 26 one-hundredth seconds<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It&rsquo;s taken me about 4 months, but today I ran one mile in:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>7 minutes, 23 seconds, 10 one-hundredth seconds<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This is good. I&rsquo;m stoked! Feels awesome to be twice as slow.<\/p>\n<p>So, what now? Well, I&rsquo;ll need to work on consistency, I&rsquo;m sure. But now I will plan to run twice as slow as the world&rsquo;s fastest 2 Mile run, achieved by Daniel Komen, who <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Two_miles\" rel=\"noopener\">ran 2 miles in 7:58.61<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That means I&rsquo;ll be working toward a 2 Mile time of 15:57.22. Sounds good to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, I ran twice as slow as the world&rsquo;s fastest mile! I started exercising again after a 10 year pause, and decided to create a goal, thinking it would be help keep me motivated. I wanted to keep it simple and practical and wanted it to have something to do with running a mile around [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3045,2064,3044],"class_list":["post-10994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-mile","tag-running","tag-twiceasslow","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10994"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10996,"href":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10994\/revisions\/10996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}