Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread

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fuggles
I'll wade into the Ben mile time. At 45 years old I was running 5:30s in training for a marathon. And I wasn't in athlete level shape. So I don't know what Ben ran, but 5:19 is not it. I'm sure it a good way under that time.
 
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Second place is 1st loser
skyIdub said:
Lol, the world record is 3:43....so Ben is a 6'9" 230lb basketball player...not a track star....only 36 seconds off of a world record mile?

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It seems extremely unlikely, but a couple of things....

When running a mile that fast, 36 seconds is a LOT of time. It's kind of like a pitcher's fastball increasing. If a guy goes from 85 MPH to 94MPH, that's the difference between playing with Schaumburg Boomers and Chicago Cubs. A guy who increases his heat from 96/97MPH to 99/100MPH is the difference between a potentially really good closer to and unhittable one. Heck, the difference in a gold medal and 5th place in the 100 meters is what....0.7 seconds? When you get to an elite level in speed events, a little is a lot.

The other thing would be that if he does indeed have an elite level of endurance, the difference in the stride of someone 6'9" and a guy 5'10" is what....three feet? It's tugging 230 around vs 170 that makes it seem relatively unreasonable.
 
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wc_illini
Second place is 1st loser said:
It seems extremely unlikely, but a couple of things....

When running a mile that fast, 36 seconds is a LOT of time. It's kind of like a pitcher's fastball increasing. If a guy goes from 85 MPH to 94MPH, that's the difference between playing with Schaumburg Boomers and Chicago Cubs. A guy who increases his heat from 96/97MPH to 99/100MPH is the difference between a potentially really good closer to and unhittable one. Heck, the difference in a gold medal and 5th place in the 100 meters is what....0.7 seconds? When you get to an elite level in speed events, a little is a lot.

The other thing would be that if he does indeed have an elite level of endurance, the difference in the stride of someone 6'9" and a guy 5'10" is what....three feet? It's tugging 230 around vs 170 that makes it seem relatively unreasonable.
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We absolutely need some insiders to settle this for us
 
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RabidDawgClassic
fuggles said:
I'll wade into the Ben mile time. At 45 years old I was running 5:30s in training for a marathon. And I wasn't in athlete level shape. So I don't know what Ben ran, but 5:19 is not it. I'm sure it a good way under that time.
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I once finished a Welcome Back Kotter marathon. That counts for somethingā€¦ right?
 
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ChiefGritty
fuggles said:
I'll wade into the Ben mile time. At 45 years old I was running 5:30s in training for a marathon. And I wasn't in athlete level shape. So I don't know what Ben ran, but 5:19 is not it. I'm sure it a good way under that time.
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This is what gets me though. You achieve this kind of performance through dedicated distance running training which is VERY different than basketball training.

Is Ben Humrichous' body capable of working towards a mile time like that? Seems very ambitious, but let's say maybe. But why on earth would he have been training that way to achieve it?

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