RIP - Roger Bannister

[tims70ar]

Roger Bannister, the first runner to break the 4-minute barrier in the mile, has died. He was 88.



"It's amazing that more people have climbed Mount Everest than have broken the 4-minute mile," Bannister said in an interview with The Associated Press in 2012.


www.foxnews.com/sports/2018/03/04/roger-bannister-first-to-run-mile-in-under-4-minutes-dead-at-88.html

[shoes]

Although his contemporary John Landy may have been a little better runner, for Roger to break what was once thought an insurmountable barrier, was momentus. It gave confidence to others that they could do it. And he did it as a medical student!. I have a framed replica news article of the feat in my exercise room.

[1hooper]