Running Prop Bet

[bigbootch]

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I was talking to my friend who used to play soccer competitively, and he said that 45 mins would have been very hard even for him back when he was playing soccer and tennis year-round.


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I don't know what kind of shape you're in, so it's impossible for me to say, but this comment by your friend strikes me as strange. I am in good shape, but am not super athletic by any means... If you saw me in person, you would just say "OK, he's a normal guy, not out of shape, whatever."

And while I run regularly (10-15 miles a week, let's say 3 times a week at like 3/4/4 miles, or 4 times a week at 3/3/3/4), I'm FAR from being a "runner" or anything like that... basically, a normal guy who runs a bit to keep in shape.

And I can do 5 miles in 45 min quite easily. If push came to shove and I had a month to prepare, I'm sure I could do it in 40 min.

So I don't understand how a super-fit soccer player would have difficulty with this? [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]