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Book Review: The Perfect Mile (2004) Neal Bascomb - Bannister, Landy, and Santee and the 4 minute mile
The Perfect Mile (2004)
Neal Bascomb
With the passing of the great Sir
Roger Bannister I highly recommend this terrific book about the great completion
that occurred at that time between Englishman Bannister, Australian John Landy,
and American Wes Santee. They were all
amazing, breaking the 4 minute mile on cinder tracks with lousy shoes and
antiquated training methods. Anyone who
gripes that they can’t do something because they don’t have a nice enough
_______ (fill in the blank) should read this book! I wonder what these guys would have run with
2018 shoes, tracks, and training.
Roger Bannister gave up competitive
running to had a long esteemed career as a physician. What an example of a fine human being.
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