The Perfect Mile: Three Athletes, One Goal, and Less Than Four Minutes to Achieve It Hannah Brückner at the tail end of

at the tail end of a professional soccer career

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Dawn wants to fit in with the other members of the BSC

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and blank pages driving her to desperation — and a desperately bad decision

The Perfect Mile: Three Athletes, One Goal, and Less Than Four Minutes to Achieve It Hannah Brückner at the tail end ofIn The Perfect Mile, Neal Bascomb, the New York Times bestselling author of Faster, presenst the riveting, true story of the three world class athletes who individually became the first runners to break the four minute mile. There was a time when running the mile in four minutes was believed to be beyond the limits of human foot speed, and in all of sport it was the elusive holy grail. In 1952, after suffering defeat at the Helsinki Olympics, three