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Roger Bannister's own account of becoming the became the first man to run a mile in under four minutes - a feat which established him as one of the most famous sportsmen in history.

Ebook The First Four Minutes Sir Roger Bannister 8601300445229 Books

"Sir Roger Bannister passed away recently, yet despite graduating from Oxford University, his greatest achievement for his College, Exeter College was breaking a time barrier that had broken many before for the distance of a mile. The book is as you would expect the fruition of many hours of endeavour and pursuit to try and ameliorate his running technique. SRB would become a medic and its rough to read at first how a medic would put himself under physical duress in order to break a record. I struggled reading a book on principle - should I listen to medics on account of how I take care of my physical being, or is this an example of using the mind to push the body further. Putting down the book the first time I took the former view, some years later I began to appreciate SRB progressive view that sometimes you just have to push yourself through a physical blasting - yet the army regularly recruits folk like that. I'm suspicious of the book's intention. Is it an autobiography? a personal attack on the University for his experiences there? An attempt to stamp his authority over his colleagues at work, or those who knew growing up? It leaves a lot to be answered for, yet ultimately, the satisfaction in the book is presented in his journey towards breaking the four minute mile. Rough to read, but a true delight and unputdownable once you read it, a bit like one of those records that doesn't right the first time, then afterwards you would never have dreamt to listen to anything different. Character building is probably how his former peers would describe this particular episode of SRB life."

Product details Paperback 244 pages Publisher Sutton Publishing Ltd; 50th UK ed. edition (January 1, 1980) Language English ISBN-10 0750935308

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The First Four Minutes Sir Roger Bannister 8601300445229 Books Reviews

• Pleased with everything, delivery,condition a n most of all it was signed by Roger!! Wow.
• Very good book about what it took for someone to be the first one to break a supposedly unbreakable record.
• Roger Bannister competed only eight years in the sport of track and field, but what a legacy he left. Bannister builds up to his historic sub-400 minute mile run, the first man to break such a barrier. It's more than just a running book. Bannister writes poetically of his childhood and in great detail of his Oxford years.
  
  Truly a renaisance man, Bannister is one who never puts running ahead of his medical studies and he maintains a balanced life, something most athletes today do not do.
  
  It's really the fantastic writing that moves this book. One would think Bannister is a professional author, not a then-med student/runner. But he eloquently describes the build up to the Olympics and later the sub-400 minute mile, concluding with a marvelous recap of his showdown with Landy at the Empire Games in Vancouver.
  
  It's been dubbed by some as the finest running book out there and I'd have to agree with that.
  
  * Apparently the book's name has been changed to The Four-Minute Mile. I think this name is better, but it's still great writing.
• Sir Roger Bannister passed away recently, yet despite graduating from Oxford University, his greatest achievement for his College, Exeter College was breaking a time barrier that had broken many before for the distance of a mile. The book is as you would expect the fruition of many hours of endeavour and pursuit to try and ameliorate his running technique. SRB would become a medic and its rough to read at first how a medic would put himself under physical duress in order to break a record. I struggled reading a book on principle - should I listen to medics on account of how I take care of my physical being, or is this an example of using the mind to push the body further. Putting down the book the first time I took the former view, some years later I began to appreciate SRB progressive view that sometimes you just have to push yourself through a physical blasting - yet the army regularly recruits folk like that. I'm suspicious of the book's intention. Is it an autobiography? a personal attack on the University for his experiences there? An attempt to stamp his authority over his colleagues at work, or those who knew growing up? It leaves a lot to be answered for, yet ultimately, the satisfaction in the book is presented in his journey towards breaking the four minute mile. Rough to read, but a true delight and unputdownable once you read it, a bit like one of those records that doesn't right the first time, then afterwards you would never have dreamt to listen to anything different. Character building is probably how his former peers would describe this particular episode of SRB life.