Average Mile Time for Runners: What’s Normal and What’s Impressive?

Running a mile can be viewed as both easy and insanely difficult, depending on your perspective. A full tilt run to beat your own average mile time is gut wrenchingly hard and often leaves you wondering if your time mile time is average or perhaps better??
After high school many of us don’t spend much time working on our mile time. But that could be to the detriment of our goals to run a marathon or half marathon or 5K PR!

They say, “Never judge a run by the first mile.” I agree. And with that s...