Tuesday, November 01, 2005

The Mystique of Sir Roger Bannister and the 4-Minute Mile

Runners are still judged by the gold standard that Bannister set in 1954 as a 25-year-old Oxford graduate. Read The Daily Star column.
    "There was a widespread belief in 1954 that the human heart and lung could not withstand a sub 4-minute mile run, and that the run would kill the person attempting it!"