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From Dream to Reality: The 4-Minute Mile and You | by Tania Lynne

For as long as we know, until 1954, running a mile in under 4 minutes was considered impossible. It was believed by pretty much everyone to be a ...

Podcast #374: The Race to Break the 4-Minute Mile

Now, you may have heard of Roger Bannister and his amazing feat of breaking the four-minute mile marker back in 1954, but the story leading up ...

The First 4‑Minute Mile, 60 Years Ago | HISTORY

Look back at the day 60 years ago when British medical student Roger Bannister became the first man to run a mile in less than 4 minutes.

Bannister, 85, Reflects 60 Years After Breaking the Four-Minute Mile

If you could run it in 4 minutes and 2.2 seconds, then you would find somebody else somewhere who trained a little better, had better conditions ...

Breaking the 4-minute mile – timeline - Science Learning Hub

Englishman Roger Bannister runs the first amateur sub-four minute mile. 27 January 1962. New Zealander Peter Snell holds the record for a while ...

Can I RUN a SUB 4 MINUTE MILE?! - YouTube

Can I break 4 minutes in the mile with the help of gravity running downhill? Do you like my videos, want exclusive benefits and support me ...

'Like a chairlift up Everest': Has the value of a four-minute mile ...

It was 69 years ago on Saturday that Bannister became the first man ever to run a mile inside four minutes, gaining sporting immortality in three minutes.

The First 4‐Minute Mile, 25 Years Later - The New York Times

On May 6, 1954 — 25 years ago today — Roger Bannister, an English medical student, became the first person to run a mile in under four minutes ...

The Roger Bannister Effect: The Myth of the Psychological ...

The story goes that Roger Bannister crushed the 4 minute Mile mark, and allowed runners to dream of the impossible. No longer held back by this psychological ...

Your Guide to Breaking 5 Minutes in the Mile - TrainwithMarc

A 5-minute mile is a very good barrier for most distance runners to try and achieve. To run a sub-5 minute mile (9 meters more than 1600), ...

The 4-Minute Mile Barrier and other Glass Ceilings - Maeve Lankford

So what can we learn from Bannister? What's the record you want to achieve? For Bannister it was breaking the 4-minute mile barrier. What's your barrier that ...

Mark Pinales | 3 tips that help our newer runners improve faster ...

Nick came to me very due to running wind to hit a 48 minute 10K or 730 per mile but the only thing was that his knees would hurt after running ...

Goal Setting: What Would You Attempt If You Knew You Could Not ...

Prior to May 6, 1954, running 1-mile in under 4 minutes was thought to be humanly impossible. That day, Sir Roger Bannister proved the naysayers wrong by ...

Reflections on Sir Roger Bannister and his autobiography, Twin ...

The four-minute mile had become rather like an Everest, a challenge to the human spirit. It was a barrier that seemed to defy all attempts to break it.

The Four Minute Mile

On the 6th of May, 1954, Roger Bannister became the first man to run a mile in less than four minutes. · It wasn't supposed to happen on 6 May, 1954. · As ...

The First Sub-Four-Minute Mile | History Today

Richard Cavendish describes the race in which Roger Bannister ran the first sub-four-minute mile, on May 6th, 1954.

Is Running a 4-Minute Mile the Secret to Longevity?

You may think that running a Mile isn't very extreme. But training to run a sub-4 minute Mile is definitely extreme: this analysis from a few ...

Athletes who can run a mile under 4 mins outlive general population

Researchers tracked the longevity of the first 200 athletes ever to have run a mile (roughly about a kilometre-and-a-half) in under four minutes ...

Physiology and Performance Prospects of a Women's Sub-4-Minute ...

It can be demonstrated that the combination of small but realistic reductions in the metabolic cost of running could substantially improve mile ...

Running a mile in under 4 minutes linked to much longer lifespans

“Breaking the four-minute mile was an extraordinary achievement 70 years ago and revealed just what the human body can achieve. It set off a ...