(The 4 Minute Mile) It was once thought that no human could run a mile in less than 4 minutes. A mile is 1.61 kilometers in distance. So that’s 4 laps full laps of a modern era athletics track, plus a further 9.34 metres. Accurate times for running the mile were not recorded until after 1850,… Continue reading The Med Student
Category: Olympics
The Runner
In the post entitled Origin, I mentioned a 1959 book called the ‘Encyclopedia of Sport‘* by Charles Harvey. One of the things I became fascinated by were the list of athletic records. As a budding athlete myself I would tick off the records as I equalled them hoping that one day my name would appear… Continue reading The Runner