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A personal and heartfelt account of the most stunning athletic achievement of the twentieth century.
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Forty-some years after the barrier was broken it's difficult to imagine how daunting a challenge the four-minute mile once was, but for a generation of world-class runners it represented the impossible dream. Roger Bannister, the British middle-distance runner who finally achieved the epic quest in 1954, wrote this stunning memoir of his life as a runner a year later; intelligent, analytical, dramatic, and graceful, it remains a sporting classic. Though two introductions have been added in years since, it's a shame that Bannister, a remarkable man who graduated from Oxford to a distinguished medical career, has never penned a more complete memoir. Still, his achievement as a young man remains one of the pivotal moments in 20th-century sports, and his account of that achievement is as good a glimpse into a runner's race toward greatness as has ever been written.
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All sports have pivotal moments, single events that change perceptions forever after. For the sport of running, such a moment occurred on a blustery May afternoon in 1954, when Roger Bannister broke the four-minute mile. This is the story of that epic run.
Today, more than fifty years later, lovers of the sport—runners and non-runners alike—will be moved by this modest but impassioned story of one of sport’s true heroes.
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- PublisherLyons Pr
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 1592285813
- ISBN 13 9781592285815
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages272
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