6.33 beats the 6.45 I've seen. However that was at RMAS in boots a long time ago. He was an running loon. Smoked 20 a day as well the mad git!

Edited to add - If the Rhine Coy record has been improved, I'll be more than a little impressed.

[quote="in_the_cheapseats"]6.33 beats the 6.45 I've seen. However that was at RMAS in boots a long time ago. He was an running loon though. Smoked 20 a day as well the mad git![/quote]

So did this one! Drunk like a fish and passed P Coy at 38

I seen it being done in 6 min 29 seconds when I was in basic training but to be fair, the guy was an ex para who wanted to join the lads down at Poole and somehow thought it would be better to leave the Army and join the Senior Service as a communicator. I joined up with 3 lads who were all ex booties and not one of them could get anywhere near this guy's time. The PTI's could not trash this guy during beastings at all which was funny as hell to watch as you could see them getting more and more wound up. :D

Originally Posted by Bravo_Zulu

The current mile record is 3.43, so the fastest you could go without breaking the record is to do it in 5.35. 5.48 sounds like bull though.

Running 5.35 for 2414m would require the chap to run the first 2000m in the second fastest time in history (currently 4.50.76) for that distance and then to come close to or to break the British 400m record (44.36).

If he's Hicham El Guerrouj, he might be able to do the time, but not even the Kenyans have produced anyone able to get within five seconds of his 2000m world record time yet!

I'm not sure that the conditions underfoot at RAF Swynderby (he can't have meant Swindon, I'd have thought) would be entirely conducive to putting in a performance which would've been enough to earn a place in any British Olympic athletics team of the last 40 years...

Originally Posted by the_matelot

The PTI's could not trash this guy during beastings at all which was funny as hell to watch as you could see them getting more and more wound up. :D

I bet the other lads in the training plt just loved that as well.

There was a miner did it in 15 secs wearing pit boots.






The feckin lift was at the bottom of the shaft at the time

Originally Posted by Gungythree

There was a miner did it in 15 secs wearing pit boots.






The feckin lift was at the bottom of the shaft at the time

Bugger, just read through all this to find my carefully prepared joke had been done already. I hate having my time beaten! :P