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The truth burning bright in a match on fire
An initial introduction to any kind of human endurance in sport perhaps came via a middle school reader. In the early 1980s then, First Four Minutes was the simplest of tales, devoid of lofty prose yet strangely evocative of the eternal struggle that Roger Bannister lived – in his own words – while clocking the first sub-four-minute mile in human history.
How short are four minutes exactly, and how much longer is a mile? Who knew. Back then, those questions belonged to bothersome math, best banished for another day. Instead, what struck the kid, forever of bruised knee and little care in the world, was being made aware of the idea of self-doubt, a quiet, dignified foreboding as Bannister prepared, perhaps for failure again.
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