Roger Bannister, an English track star, shocked the world by running a sub-4-minute mile in 1954. Prior to this great accomplishment, athletes, physicians, coaches and the media deemed the sub-4-minute mile an impossible feat. On May 6, 1954, Bannister shocked the world and posted a 3:59.4 minute mile. Yet an Australian runner by the name of John Landy allowed the record to stand for only 46 days. During a race in Finland, Landy ran a 3:57.9 minute mile. Within 3 years of the initial Bannister “threshold buster” 16 runners broke the 4-minute mark.
Moral of the Story:
#1 – Half the battle of reaching a goal or breaking a new level of performance is simply believing there is a new level of performance to be reached.
#2- No matter how high your performance goal is it will always become someone else’s target.
Ken Stellon - Senior Vice President, Frontline Performance Group
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