Anyone slower than me for one mile? (Page 3)

Trolling OP if you ask me.

Squirrel?

12 min+ here.  I'd love a good 10 min mile let alone the OPs time!

Well, I can't promise I am in my right mind, but I would be bragging with a sub-30 5k, and I'd be telling everyone if I broke an 8:30 mile. In fact, at the 5k series I do most of the last 4-5 years, my goal, yet to be achieved, on a flat course, is to break a 33 minute race time. I've come close, but haven't broken it. And at the race I did this past weekend, a 30 minute time would have put you in the top 14 of males 50-59. Your overall place would have been around 188 out of 380 (I finished in the mid 200's of the field - and was thrilled with my times and splits).

And how can you tell who in a race has been training less than you? I've been running, on and off, since the early 1980's, and my times are what they are. I have almost no idea how much other people at a race have been training. Maybe if I overhear someone talking at the back of the pack before the race about how they just started running this year, and this is their first race. Then they usually proceed to leave me in the dust around the first 1/2 mile.

Using the McMillian calculator a 30 min 5k puts you right around 8:30 for the mile. So I would say that the OP is consistent. I guess that 30 minutes puts you MOP in a typical 5k so a mid 8 would put you middle of the pack for a mile. So there are people that are slower. 

If I were to try to defend the OP I would assume that it takes more effort to run the mile than the 5k. When you look at the time you expect it to be lower based upon the amount of effort you feel you put into it. I actually think that this is why a lot of runner increase distance rather than speed it can feel easier to increase the miles but stay at a steady pace.

I actually don't think it was a self brag but rather an unrealistic expectation of herself and others.

Had the same thought.