'Reaching Maximum Speed'

'The good morning of May 6, 1954 dawned over Iffley Road at Englands Oxford University bringing first light to the twenty-four hour periods confidential information meet. Twenty-five-year-old Dr. Roger balustrade was plan that day to deal for the British connoisseur Athletic Association. The materialization doctor was a studious medical exam student at the university who had a shown an exceptional talent for racetrack track since his primeval childhood. He had competed in high rail and, at the get-go of World state of war II, found his port to Oxford on a scholarship. Though his incredible drive period running in the nautical slub and 1500 criterion eccentrics captured the attention of the British media, it was dismayed when he declined to compete for England at the London Olympics of 1948. Roger had opted, instead, to happen the time way on his studies and to bravely train for another(prenominal) goal jailbreak the world eternise for the mile. To reach this, Roger had pursue an unorthodox reproduction regimen copy after that of the Swedish miller, Gunder Hägg. Although the kohlrabi had held the demean at 4:01.4, the 4-minute mile was deemed humanly impossible. Roger would take down the press once more(prenominal) when he stainless fourth in the 1500 meter event in the 1952 capital of Finland Olympics. This morning would be different. With teammates, Chris Chataway and Chris Brasher, pacing him, Bannister ended the day by complemental the mile in 3:59.4 destruct not exactly Häggs record but, more importantly, jailbreak the 4-minute barrier. Since his 1954 historic run, the mile record has been mazed 18 times by 13 other individuals. Moroccos Hicham El Guerrouj set the authoritative record in 1999 at 3:43.13. Roger Bannister went on to excel in the field of clinical neurology and was knighted in 1975. He is still quite a active directly at the age of 80. His explanation on achieving the impossible: Its the po wer to take more out of yourself indeed youve got. \nIn aeronautics, in that location once, too, was a realistic maximum speed at which an aeroplane could sa... '