Don't we, perhaps, respect the four-minute mile a little
too much? After all, a 3:57 mile is somewhat equivalent to
a 1:48 800 meters, which wouldn't exactly blow anyone's
mind if it were done thrice in 7 or 8 days (in fact, if
he were a Kenyan, you might think he had mono).
Sometimes I think that the mystique of four minutes is a
hindrance to American milers, since they think that once
they have broke 4:00 they are world class runners.
They ain't. In fact, them days is long gone -- like, maybe,
thirty years....
jim dunaway
At 07:11 AM 2/6/02 -0700, you wrote:
>Those who like to argue (discuss) the topic of racing too much might
>want to look at what Rotich has done in the last 2 weeks.
>He ran the mile in the Boston indoor meet. Then, less than a week later,
>he ran at Milrose winning the mile in 3:57.
>The next day he went to Arkansas and won the mile in 3:57. Next, he is
>scheduled to run the mile at the Nebraska meet on February 9.
>John Lunn
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