Thanks for coming here; we're here to help you cope with the meters. We've heard you're having an identity crisis. At school, at home and even on the track, you're a Miler. But, you're constantly and unfortunately falling 9 meters short.
Here's what we're going to do This guide will help answer all those questions at the dinner table. Sign, share and tell us what the Mile means to you. Just use the hashtag BringBackTheMile and we'll feature our favs. It's actually 9 meters short. So, if you run a or a , you can't actually call yourself a sub Miler or a sub-5 Miler.
In the late s when tracks went to m ovals, High School state federation officials across the country ignored the history of the Mile. You know how parents are always telling you to not take the easy road. They decided to start and finish the four lapper in the same place.
Apparently, stepping back 9 meters and marking it was too difficult and inconvenient. But they're just enforcing rules set by the federations. You're thinking of the meters. In fact, the Mile was the only official record distance carried over from the imperial system of yards to the metric system of meters.
It is still an official record distance and run internationally in meets like the Bislett Games and their famed Dream Mile. Steve Scott 's Scott's record lasted more than 26 years until Alan Webb 's I heard that Grant Fisher had a separate finish line at his state meet in order to get an official mile time in the m run. The seems like a very silly distance to me; we double the distance from to to to and then suddenly we switch to the Sean Nunn Raytown South.
Joined: Dec I am sure the change will never happen but I would like to see that. I don't understand that!! I would really like to see field event measurements switched to metric. Metric measurements are much easier to record. There is no good argument for not changing to metric measurements. Plus our kids will run these distances when they go to college. Personally I don't care what the actual distance is, I just think we should be in line with what everyone else in the world does for the most part.
I have no problem going metric in field events except it's a real pain doing the conversions in my head!!! Delete Post Close Save. But when he competed internationally, sometimes the 1, meters was the only choice.
Scott concedes that his ambivalence toward the 1, stemmed from his familiarity with the longer distance, and that he never committed to the 1, as its own race with its own demands. In theory, he says, he could have run the 1, at a slightly faster pace because of the slightly shorter distance. Europeans who grew up racing the 1, may feel differently; for them the mile may seem abnormally long.
And for women, running the 1, in four minutes is still a significant barrier that separates the elite from the very good. The mile, once a fixture at US track meets, has slowly been phased out in favor of the 1, meters as the sport and its events become more international. But the Olympics include another famously non-metric race: the The marathon, one of the marquee events of the Olympics, is still a stubborn outlier in a sports world that has otherwise gone metric.
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