Your Day And Your Life Unstuck With Sherry Essig

Sixty-four years ago Roger Bannister did the impossible: he became the first athlete to run a mile in under four minutes. Okay, so it wasn’t impossible ;-). But the prevailing belief back then, including amongst the medical community, was that a sub-four-minute mile wasn’t humanly possible. Roger Bannister believed differently. On May 6, 1954 he ran a 3:59.4 minute mile.