your 3 mile runs.

[ZZ]

hey lads,

i see a lot of you have 3 mile times up on your signiture which is the fastest you can do a 3 miler in..

i just need to say and make sure you know that you have to train to do the 3 miler in the right way... which is 1.5 miles in 12:30 and then 1.5 miles in 10:30 or under.

only saying this for those who may not have realised.. i dont want to seem like im stating the obvious but i just wanted to make sure everyone is training properly *text deleted*.

 

[Sotiris]

Hehe except that the new regs state you have to do 1.5 miles in under 10.00 bud.

 

[jm745]

Hehe except that the new regs state you have to do 1.5 miles in under 10.00 bud.

Thought that was just for a 1.5 miler on it's own,
I thought the 3 miler was conducted how ZZ said.

Joe

 

[TommyK]

Thought that was just for a 1.5 miler on it's own,
I thought the 3 miler was conducted how ZZ said.

Joe

That's what I thought, and was sort of relying on *text deleted* as my 3 miler times aren't too consistent at the moment

 

[jm745]

That's what I thought, and was sort of relying on *text deleted* as my 3 miler times aren't too consistent at the moment

Yeah I'm struggling to get the second mile and a half under 11 minutes.

 

[TheBaker]

I'm not so sure about that, a 3 miler is a 3 miler.

If you can do it in a decent time(under 20 mins) you don't need to worry about those times.

 

[jm745]

I'm not so sure about that, a 3 miler is a 3 miler.

If you can do it in a decent time(under 20 mins) you don't need to worry about those times.

Well if you can do a 3 miler in under 20 minutes then you don't have to worry,
as 12:30 then 10:30 is piss easy if you can do that,
but as I'm doing 3 miles in over 23 minutes it helps to think about those times when reducing the time it takes me.

Joe

 

[Priar]

You guys sure about this?
Sounds rather odd that they would take 30 seconds off the 3 miler time when they currently have a large number of candidates failing this when given 10 minutes 30 seconds...

 

[ZZ]

Hehe except that the new regs state you have to do 1.5 miles in under 10.00 bud.

no its 10:30 for the run back. its recently changed, so i doubt they are going to change it then think.. actually we will change it back, about a few months later *text deleted*.

and refering to what baker said, ok if you can do a 3 mile run in under 20 mins you have a pretty good chance, but its much better to train for 1.5 in 12:30 first, because someone may be used to going for it for the first 2 miles at like a 6 - 7min mile pace which gives them an opertunity to slow down. but the reality is on the prmc you run at a steady pace after a warm up and then go all out (as you will know). it can be all well and good someone being able to run 2 miles in 14mins straight off, but they need to be able to run 1.5 in under 10:30 after a warm up and a 1.5 in 12:30