Excessive schooler runs sub-4 minute mile, breaks file that had stood since 1965

Gary Martin, a senior at Archbishop Wooden High Faculty Warminster, Penn., broke a prestigious monitor and discipline document on the Pennsylvania Catholic League Championship on Monday by running a mile in below 4 minutes. Martin's run broke a report that had stood for practically 60 years.

Martin ran a mile in 3:57:98 without the aid of a pacer, breaking a document that had been set by Jim Ryun in 1965.

Ryun grew to become the first high schooler to run a mile in underneath 4 minutes in 1964, then broke his personal file five instances before graduating. Ryun's time of report was 3:58.3, a mark which Martin broke by less than a second.

Martin is now the 14th American highschool athlete to break four minutes, and his time now ranks third all-time in outside runs. It needs to be famous, though, that Ryun was the only athlete to take action in high school-only competitors, without the use of a pacer.

Martin's run was a major milestone he prepares to attend the College of Virginia upon commencement. Talking about his long-term objectives, Martin hopes to change into an Olympic athlete.

"I would prefer to think that it's not loopy for me to say that it is a dream now," Martin informed CBS News. "Clearly, I am nonetheless a protracted methods away and have some work to do, but I am confident in my skill. I've the dream, now I simply need to put the work in and chase it."

Based mostly on his beating Ryun's mark, Martin's goals might very properly be in reach. After his report run within the Nineteen Sixties, Ryun went on to compete in three Olympic finals, successful silver in 1500m in the course of the 1968 Mexico City Olympics.