("Man vs Marathon")
The record for the fastest mile ever run stood at 4 minutes 1.4 seconds for almost nine years before that day in May of 1954 when Roger Bannister ran a full two seconds better than the old mark. It was a physical feat many experts had deemed unattainable.
45 years later the new (and still current) standard was
set, more than sixteen seconds faster than the time posted by Dr.
Bannister. Yes, sixteen seconds.
How can we measure the limits of our physical and mental
capacities? While the consensus would seem to be that we are a full
generation away from watching the two hour barrier for the marathon
fall, the lesson from that damp and cold day in England is that we
cannot truly know what the human heart and mind can accomplish. People
do scale unscalable heights.
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