The 4-minute mile fallacy
It is Impossible We accepted that Roger Bannister broke the 4-minute mile, but he didn't, nore has anyone else, and nobody will, why? First of all, man is incapable of attaining the speed beeded for the task; to run a 4-minute mile you need to run at over 16 MPH, not many professional cyclists can keep that pace with all the modern equipment. The main thing to get used to is that Roger Bannister was not at the front running into the wind for most of the race, so he was fresh for the run-in, like most of the athletes who beat the record; they run as a group, switvhing runners who take the wind to keep the agreed winner fresh, To give you a thought, if we could run this fast for this long, we could outrun both the cheetah (the fastest land animal), and the bulls at Pamplona . This brings me to a funny incident in the Munich (?) Olymic games; as I said, most of the races have a pattern, you have three grades of runners. Front runners, usually athketes who are there to keep the...