Breaking The 4 Minute Mile...
It was 51 years ago, that Roger Bannister, a 25 year old medical student, broke the Four-Minute Mile Barrier. A barrier that many "experts" felt was impossible to cross; because they 'knew' that the human body couldn't run that fast.But what's the difference between running 4:01.4, which at the time was the current world record set in 1945 and running 3:59.4? Only two seconds. Just a couple of steps. That must have been what Roger Bannister had been thinking as he trained for what many track-and-field experts consider to be the most important event in the sport's history.
For middle distance runners, the fascination was The Four-Minute Mile, for it was widely assumed that it was impossible for a human being to run a mile under four minutes.
Bannister ran 3:59.4 on May 6, 1954. He broke the Four-Minute Mile Barrier.
What’s interesting about this record is that for the HUNDREDS of years they have been keeping Track-and-Field records it took one person to break this Barrier. 46 days after Bannister's breakthrough, another runner surpassed the record, running 3:57.9 in Finland. By the end of 1957, 16 runners had logged sub-4-minute miles. Between 1954 and 1964, one decade, 326 runners had logged sub-4-minute miles. Fast forward to July 7, 1999. Hicham El Guerrouj of Morocco set the world of 3:43.13 - an incredible 55.78 seconds per lap. This was the 19th time the record for the mile had been broken since 1954. By the end of the Century, 955 runners had run sub-four-minute miles, accomplishing it an astonishing 4700+ times.
What Barriers Are Keeping You Back?
Fifty-one years ago Roger Bannister broke through the Four-Minute Mile barrier. What barriers are keeping you back? What negative thoughts are in the back of you mind.
That wee small voice that says
* You're not good enough.
* You don't have enough talent.
* You don't have enough education/training.
Don't accept it. Don't listen to it. Forge ahead. Turn those negative thoughts into positive actions generating phenomenal results.
How many nay-sayers do you have in your life?
* People who pull you down, instead of building you up.
* People who take from you, but don't give anything back.
* People who drain you of your energy, enthusiasm and your dreams.
Remove them from your life. Surround yourself with positive uplifting, encouraging, and supportive people. People who want to see you succeed.
What are your dreams?
Goals?
Ambitions?
Where do you want to go?
What do you want to become?
Roger Bannister wanted to become a physician. But along the way he wanted to do the impossible. He did both. His name is forever etched in history.
What about you?
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