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He was the first man under 4:00 in the 1 Mile Run 3:59.4 he was 88 he died 20 days short of his birthday 3-23-29 I heard this on sports radio WFAN(NY).

And he considered his greatest contributions in life to be the 40 year career he had as a neurologist. Quite an accomplished man.

I was happy to get anywhere close to 5:00 back in my track days. Sub 4:00 is just insane, despite how many times it's happened since.

Grizalltheway wrote:I was happy to get anywhere close to 5:00 back in my track days. Sub 4:00 is just insane, despite how many times it's happened since.

5:29 was the best I did as a non-track non-cross country guy.

GannonFan wrote:

Grizalltheway wrote:I was happy to get anywhere close to 5:00 back in my track days. Sub 4:00 is just insane, despite how many times it's happened since.

5:29 was the best I did as a non-track non-cross country guy.

Congrats to you.

I PRed at 6:02 senior year, and I'll never see that again....

There was talk of a guy who beat Bannister to this feat named Landy.