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

Gary Martin, a senior at Archbishop Wood Excessive College Warminster, Penn., broke a prestigious monitor and discipline report on the Pennsylvania Catholic League Championship on Monday by operating a mile in beneath 4 minutes. Martin's run broke a report that had stood for nearly 60 years.

Martin ran a mile in 3:57:98 without assistance from a pacer, breaking a report that had been set by Jim Ryun in 1965.

Ryun grew to become the first excessive schooler to run a mile in beneath four minutes in 1964, then broke his personal document 5 times earlier than 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 out of doors runs. It ought to be noted, though, that Ryun was the only athlete to do so in high school-only competitors, with out using a pacer.

Martin's run was a serious milestone he prepares to attend the College of Virginia upon graduation. Speaking about his long-term targets, Martin hopes to change into an Olympic athlete.

"I might prefer to suppose that it is not loopy for me to say that it is a dream now," Martin advised CBS News. "Clearly, I'm still a protracted ways away and have some work to do, but I am assured in my means. I have the dream, now I simply should put the work in and chase it."

Based on his beating Ryun's mark, Martin's desires may very nicely be in attain. After his report run within the Nineteen Sixties, Ryun went on to compete in three Olympic finals, profitable silver in 1500m in the course of the 1968 Mexico Metropolis Olympics.