“I almost lost the ball a few times on the curves. I would have benefitted from using my left hand, but I’m just not that coordinated.”
, finishing in 13.71 seconds . While summiting Everest is still on the bucket list, his most recent challenge was a task most of us can relate to: running while dribbling a basketball.
On August 23, he set the fastest known record for a mile run mile while dribbling, finishing the distance in 5:29 at a track near his home in Oregon. That time beats the officialset by North Carolina’s Colin Shaver in May 2018, 6:57, by nearly a minute and a half. However, the time Symmonds was really trying to beat, he said, was the 6:06 mile his brother, AJ Lapray, ran previously while dribbling a basketball., dribbling a basketball while hitting that speed wasn’t easy.
“The turns were especially challenging. I almost lost the ball a few times on the curves,” said Symmonds, who used his right hand to dribble. “I would have benefitted from using my left hand, but I’m just not that coordinated. I wasn’t so much dribbling as pushing the ball forward.”Luckily, Symmonds’s childhood years spent on team sports helped out. “I played just about every sport in high school,” Symmonds said“Basketball, soccer, ice hockey, skiing, you name it.
Symmonds came through his first lap in 1:24, then slowed down in his second lap, splitting 2:45 at 800 meters. Still on pace to run sub-six minutes going into his final lap, he had a slight hiccup on the curve of the last 400, losing contact with the basketball as it rolled off to the edge of the track. He was able to grab it and resume dribbling, though, and wound up finishing the race in 5:29.
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