Yesterday, Mark Raybuck made great strides towards accomplishing what to some seems like a nearly insurmountable goal.....cracking a 5-minute mile at Age 51. Yesterday, he purchased a pair of 5.5-ounce Nike Lunarlite high-tech racing flats. "Now that I've spent nearly $100 on racing shoes, the sub-5 is nearly in the bag" Raybuck told reporters who were waiting in the Fleet Feet parking lot in Buffalo, NY.
"It would be a shame to spend this much money at my age for racing shoes, and not crack 5." Raybuck has always gone by the common convention that you save 1 second per mile per ounce of shoe weight. Thus, assuming the old racing shoes were about 8 ounces (and the rubber was completely dead), these shoes alone will gain about 3 seconds in a mile attempt. So in reality, he only needs to run about a 5:03 equivalent in the old shoes.
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Mark,
The neon soles of those shoes are good for at least another five seconds off your time.
On the other hand, last year I spent a fortune on a fancy bicycle. It's made of titanium tubes that were made in Italy and blessed by the Pope. It's as light as a fart and more expensive than a divorce.
I'm not any faster, but now when people pass me they say "Hey, nice bike!"
Speedo
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