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There were people in 18th century England whose job was to run alongside coaches: http://kongehuset.dk/english/Historical-Collections/Coaches-and-horses/coaches
by sireat 12y ago
There were people in 18th century England whose job was to run alongside coaches: http://kongehuset.dk/english/Historical-Collections/Coaches-and-horses/coaches-and-horses http://kongehuset.dk/english/Historical-Collections/Coaches-...
So one can argue that 4minute mile is not inconceivable with such training.
- cafard 12y agoMaybe, if there is evidence of coaches regularly traveling at twelve miles an hour or better. But Mark Twain, in Roughing It, gives eight or ten miles an hour as a good pace for a stage coach. I was never more than a decent recreational runner, but I could sustain six minute miles for an hour, and seven minute miles for three or four. That is not the sort of running that trains one to compete at elite (even high school) distances in the mile.