Originally Posted by The_Jazz

I just saw this. Will, you know I spent a lot of time running track and cross country back in the day. I'm still a track nerd, although I do my best not to overburden the board with disecting splits of world records like I do elsewhere.

That said, goals are fine and dandy, but there is absolutely no way in hell you will ever run a 4:00 mile. I spent 2 years of building a base and about 3 months of speed work specifically designed to turn me into a miler (I was the 3rd 5k/10k guy behind 2 All-Americans) and the best I could muster was a 4:23. My best friend spent 8 years training specifically for the mile/1500M (the variation is about 113 yards, so it's essentially the same race) and dropped his PR down to 4:16. There are about 40-60 guys in the US that can run under 4:05 at any given time and about 10-20 that can break 4:00, especially if you thrown consistency into the mix (i.e. you're not Darren Brown). I will concede up front that it's mathmatically possible that you are the greatest talent to ever step foot on a track, but that's what it would take for you to get to 4:00, let alone break it given your actual age versus your training age.

MAYBE you could run a 4:30 if you've been training constantly with a professional coach, but even with competition to drag you across the line half-dead, I would wager a very substantial sum of money against it. And I'd want to hear proof that you'd been spending a lot of time with guys by the name of Jennings, Riley, Brown, Heath - who all live in your neck of the woods as I recall - before I'd give any credence to you having the ability to make this accomplishment considering that you've 1) had open-heart surgery and 2) been shot in the leg.