Barristers world record was broken by John Candy. Lou Reed wrote a song about him: Candy says I've come to hate my body and all that it requires. What could Candy have run in Dragonflys and with a better diet?
Barristers world record was broken by John Candy. Lou Reed wrote a song about him: Candy says I've come to hate my body and all that it requires. What could Candy have run in Dragonflys and with a better diet?
Yeah but Barrister had the help of Chris Castaway. Candy ran sub 4 in a real race.
Roger Bannister would remain focused on his medical studies. He wouldn't be interested in running today as it wouldn't be his career. He was a recreational athlete - he simply ran for fun while he studied medicine.
You don’t know that. He was running for free and with today’s contracts, he could have been willing to put off medical school for a few years.
Bannister was a pure amateur athlete, but I don't think you call what he was doing "simply (running) for fun.."
He was intense to the extreme in his training, and particularly the effort he would put into a race, running himself completely to exhaustion in the first sub 4:00 and the race against Landy in the Commonwealth Games.
Given a modern track and shoes, and greater time to train and recover (his training - the key session being 10x400m was squeezed into his lunchtime break), I think it's reasonable to put Bannister in the 3:50 range for a mile.
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