Hi Terry,
> > $ units '(1 hour + 59 min + 40.2 sec) / 26.2 miles' 'min/mile; sec/mile'
> > 4 min/mile + 34.053435 sec/mile
>
> When I was four, I still remember the adults and older kids talking
> about the four minute mile.
Yes, that's the comparison I was wanting. Those of a certain age will
recall the McWhirter twins, co-founders of The Guinness Book of Records,
from BBC's Record Breakers with Roy Castle. Later, it was just Norris
after Ross was murdered by the IRA. Norris was the announcer at the
race meet where Bannister finally broke four minutes and strung out
giving the time the crowd wanted to hear.
Ladies and gentlemen, here is the result of event nine, the one
mile: first, number forty one, R. G. Bannister, Amateur Athletic
Association and formerly of Exeter and Merton Colleges, Oxford, with
a time which is a new meeting and track record, and which—subject to
ratification—will be a new English Native, British National,
All-Comers, European, British Empire and World Record. The time was
three...
The crowd drowned out the rest.
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