I went for a skate today and asked a friend on a bike with an odometer to clock my speed on some flat ground. He followed me and clocked me at 17mph for a little ways. The odometer is accurate. I was pretty proud of myself (37 years old and #225) for being able to push along on flat ground at that rate…and yes I push mongo. I may have been able to get to 18mph, but I was starting to push my limits. This is obviously faster than I can run.
This got me thinking. If I can do this, one of you young punks or older gents that is in great shape, might be able to post a 3 minute mile on a longboard. That means holding 20mph on FLAT ground for 1 minute.
Granted a bike can do this, however, a bike uses cranks and a cranking motion and mucho mechanical stuff. The skateboard push motion is more elegant and similar to running in how it is powered. It has a lot less moving parts.
The one condition I would put on this - the ground needs to be considered flat to a reasonable person. You absolutely need to end up at the same height above sea level that you started. It is not fair to bomb straight down a 7% grade at 30mph and go “tadaaaa”. You need to power the board, not gravity.
I can go 20mph for like 10 seconds if I push as hard as I can. I highly doubt I could do it for 3 minutes though. Maybe I will try it out around the neighborhood.
I can get a mile in about 6 mins kicking fairly med fast up a small incline wearing a backpack so i got to try this!
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me and my friend were riding, he was on a bike i was on a longboard with ceramics and i barley ahd to push and he was pedalen pretty hard ( he would pedal and coast and pedal and cost) he had to petal like 4 times 4 or 5 revolutions before i had to push maybe 3 good pushes. then we raced down a hill (jsut coasting) we started at this light pole at the top and i won. he didnt have the greatest bike but it was a bike like the bmx style not a 10 speed or any thing. i can push 28 (on a light downard incline but just a slight one ((never was clocked on flat ground))) on a short board. havent clocked on a longboard cuz im relativly new and i dont have a speed gun layen around but i do have a gps watch with a speedometer comen, but i raced a car going down main he could only go the speed limit and i pushed as hard as i could for like 2 blocks and i beat him so its more than like 25.
I've built a page for the "cyber mile" in case you guys want to support it, it would be cool to see it take off. Currently got the pump mile to just over 4 minutes, I think it was 4:14 at the Redmond Velodrome.
Mark if you're up for it let's do a real mile challenge in person, we could use the Velodrome in the early morning before the bikes take over. That's a perfect course because its built flat, you wouldn't have to run it in both directions. Of course there are a lot of mostly flat bike trails here as well. We have the MS Skate August 27th, and one portion of the trail is a full mile without interruption/intersections etc. If we rode that both directions we'd have a "true" mile time to factor out the inclines. We could do this the day before the marathon, you game?!
During my practice run of the 6.2 mile central park course, I did it in 24 minutes which equals a 15.5 mph average. But that's for 6.2 miles so I'll try to do some more training and then I'll get back to you on the possibility.
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IThat means holding 20mph on FLAT ground for 1 minute.
Oops, I meant 3 minutes.
Mark
Also, I would be up for supporting a formal attempt. I don't personally think I have game for the 3 minute mile, but I would like to get under 4 minutes. I definitely got a deck for the first person who can do this where it is properly documented. Details like "running" start vs stopped start need to be defined. I really don't know if the speed can be held for 3 minutes...interesting.
I am up for trying this. My biggest problem is finding a mile of flat ground.
If you can find a course that is unobstructed for a full mile, just hit it both directions - that's really the only way to ensure 'flat'. My buddy was clocking under 4 minutes for a while then I said yeah lets hit your course, it was 3:45 one way (wow!!) and then.... 4:30 the other way
My buddy was clocking under 4 minutes for a while then I said yeah lets hit your course, it was 3:45 one way (wow!!) and then.... 4:30 the other way
Well the slower time could because he (she?) was dead tired after pushing like a raging gorilla for almost 4 minutes, and the try to do it again without rest?
The 3 minute mile.
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