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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm just curious about people who run 6/7 minute miles...have you always been pretty fast?  I run regularly and I feel like I never seem to get any faster - I will admit I have never worked terribly hard to improve my speed I usually go for extending distances, but I'm just curious if it would even be possible.  [/quote]

I didn't read other comments, but my understanding is that speed in running has a lot to do with fast-twitch muscles versus slow-twitch muscles.  Some people take a lot longer to get in the groove, and for those people, speed may not be their best quality (though endurance, sure).

The other thing is training for speed usually involves running a lot of intervals.  I think if you're just doing a run every day, you probably won't get increasingly faster.  I think it requires training for speed.

That's just my limited understanding.

But that said, who cares how fast you go?  I think the kind of training you'd have to do for speed would be intense and likely unsustainable, so eventually you'd probably fall back to your usual time if you didn't continue the training indefinitely.  And sprints, things like that, are pretty hard on the joints/body.

Just my opinion.[/quote]

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