The four-minute mile was broken by roger Bannister. This was considered an unbreakable record.
In May 1954, a skinny medical student at Oxford named Roger Bannister became the first person to run a mile in less than four minutes. Here’s what made this a BIG deal:
• People thought it couldn’t be done. Dozens of medical journals had reported that it was physically impossible for the human body to break through that barrier.
• Back then the popular assumption held that if anyone tried to run faster than 15 miles an hour, they would die.
• No one had yet challenged this belief.
But Bannister systematically attacked the record, breaking through it by a fraction of a second. How? He got scientific on how to best approach the four-minute mile. Roger Bannister built a treadmill in a lab at his school and tested lactic acid levels by taking blood samples. This allowed him to observe from a scientific standpoint what was physically possible and how to go beyond that.
I want to focus on what happened AFTER Roger Bannister’s four-minute mile, though; this is less well known.
• Another runner, Australian John Landy, also broke the four-minute barrier 1.5 months later.
• The next season, a few more runners did too. Then runners started breaking it in droves.
• Within three years, 17 runners had matched the greatest accomplishment of the twentieth century.
What had happened? Nothing profound had changed. The track surfaces were the same, the training was the same, the genetic makeup of athletes was the same. BUT, the 17 runners had received a CLEAR SIGNAL-you can do this too-and the four-minute mark, once an insurmountable wall, was instantly recast as a stepping-stone.
The seminal sporting achievement of the 20th century showed how one person can be a catalyst for change. Once one person, or one team, breaks through widely held beliefs that something can’t be done, the unattainable can be attained. The impossible can become possible.
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