# What's the fastest you've ever run? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 3, 2010, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-fastest-youve-ever-run/559324 "2010-11-03T13:45:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Tethered\_Kite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a5b964/32.png) [@Tethered\_Kite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tethered_Kite)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2010, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-fastest-youve-ever-run/559324/41 "2010-11-08T21:59:54Z")
> [@runner pat](#): > > **Tethered Kite** , you threw up because you gave your all, not because you lacked a warm up. > I’ve lost count of the times I dodged vomit in the finish chute( and contributed my share to the finish chute dance.). > > My college coach said you should finish a race in one of three ways: > > 1. Collapse from the effort. > 2. Throw up from the effort. > 3. Collapse from the effort and fall where you threw up from the effort.:eek:😃 I did good then, huh? Good thing it didn’t happen in current time. As thin as I was and the throwing up incidents I’d have been suspected of bullimia and sent for an eval! ---
**Author:** ![DadWagonDriver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/edb3f5/32.png) [@DadWagonDriver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DadWagonDriver)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2010, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-fastest-youve-ever-run/559324/42 "2010-11-09T04:15:02Z")
Fast enough to knock a kid out of one of his cleats. That was fun! Fast enough to outrun someone I had just stripped of the ball. In a timed run? 5:45 mile. And in the past four years: a 9:00 mile (yuck). I got lazy and slower! ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2010, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-fastest-youve-ever-run/559324/43 "2010-11-09T12:31:51Z")
I hate running, but a few weeks ago while I was running to the station I also suddenly experienced that “flying through the air with feet only occasionally hitting the ground” feeling. It felt really good, and I thought “If running always felt like this I’d do it more often!”. I’ll have to see if I can somehow recapture it. But the fastest I ever ran was when I was a kid, about 12 years old, playing football on the village green in a thunderstorm. Lightning struck a row of trees about 50 yards away. I think I covered the mile back home before the steam had stopped rising. ---
**Author:** ![Lanzy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/74df32/32.png) [@Lanzy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lanzy)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2010, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-fastest-youve-ever-run/559324/44 "2010-11-09T13:31:56Z")
I beat the fastest guy in school (7th grade) in a race from 3rd to home when he decided to run me down instead of throwing to home. I’ve never won another race. ---
**Author:** ![EnginNerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ea924/32.png) [@EnginNerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EnginNerd)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2010, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-fastest-youve-ever-run/559324/45 "2010-11-09T18:28:27Z")
A 19:51 5k, which is pretty good since it was my first one ever. I tend to do the longer races, which leads to my slowest race – a 10:04 50 miler (that’s hours:minutes), but it was all above 10,000ft and included about 9,000ft of climbing total. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-fastest-youve-ever-run/559324.md?page=2)