Letter: Why three minutes would be the ultimate mile

From: The Independent (London, England) | Date: May 9, 1994| Author: | Copyright information

Sir: Remembering well Roger Bannister's running of the first four-minute mile, I was interested in the opinions in Mike Rowbottom's article ("Day that turned out fine for Bannister", 5 May) on the ultimate record mile time.

In 1970 at the Chalk River Nuclear Laboratories, Ontario, Canada, while considering bonding orbitals of transition metals, an admittedly bizarre bit of lateral thinking (I was an active club athlete) led me to discover that, for any one individual, the rate of anaerobic running (the inverse of speed) declines linearly with the logarithm of the total distance run, and that ...

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