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Unless this is your friend...
The twelve minute three-mile?
Yes, it's time to start talking about it!
On June 8,1995 Moses Kiptanui set a 5 KM world record by running 12:55.30.
Little more than three years later this record had dropped 15.94 seconds to 12:39.36.
How many more years are needed for the record to arrive at 12:25.68, which is 5 KM (3.107 miles)
run at four-minute-per-mile pace? "Only" 11.67 more seconds need to come off the present world record.
The current world record holder is Ethiopian Kenenisa Bekele. His 12:37.35 in Hengelo, Holland
on May 31, 2004 is equivalent to 4:03.75 per mile average pace.
He ran an average of 60.59 seconds per 400 meter lap for 12.5 laps
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