The Perfect Mile
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published 09/11/2007
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SummaryNeal Bascomb’s The Perfect Mile is a great book about three runners who all have the desire to accomplish the unthinkable; a mile in under four minutes. Wes Santee, John Landy, and Roger Bannister were all after this difficult task, each representing a different country. Bascomb follows the journey of each runner through all their difficult trials and thrilling victories.
Table of Contents
- There was a time when running the four minute mile was believed to be impossible.
- Throughout the book, it covers how each runner progressively got closer and closer with each race.
- Come 1954, all three athletes were pushing the four minute mile as all three of them were within two seconds of breaking the record, but it was two seconds that seemed like eternity to them.
- Bannister took off with his pacers, Brasher and Chataway just ahead of him.
- The world now knew that in a head to head battle that Bannister was the best.
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