The Perfect Mile: Three Athletes, One Goal, and Less Than Four Minutes to Achieve It Bascomb NealPaperback
The Perfect Mile: Three Athletes, One Goal, and Less Than Four Minutes to Achieve It Bascomb NealPaperback There was a time when running the mile in four minutes was believed to be beyond the limits…
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The Perfect Mile: Three Athletes, One Goal, and Less Than Four Minutes to Achieve It Bascomb NealPaperback
There was a time when running the mile in four minutes was believed to be beyond the limits of human foot speed, and in all of sport it was the elusive holy grail. Roger Bannister was a young English medical student who epitomized the ideal of the amateur -- still driven not just by winning but by the nobility of the pursuit. In 1952, after suffering defeat at the Helsinki Olympics, three world-class runners each set out to break this barrier.
Then there was Wes Santee, the swaggering American, a Kansas farm boy and natural athlete who believed he was just plain better than everybody else.Spanning three continents and defying the odds, their collective quest John Landy was the privileged son of a genteel Australian family, who as a boy preferred butterfly collecting to running but who trained relentlessly in an almost spiritual attempt to shape his body to this singular task.