Sub 4:00: Alan Webb and the Quest for the Fastest Mile

Sub 4:00: Alan Webb and the Quest for the Fastest Mile (Paperback) - Common

For more than three decades, not one American schoolboy had run a sub-4:00 mile. Then, in January 2001, Alan Webb clocked a 3:59.86 mile, the fastest indoor U.S. high school mile ever. Just a few months later, the young track star achieved legendary status: he ran a 3:53.46 mile-a full 2 seconds faster than former record holder Jim Ryun. Everywhere Webb was hailed as "America's Next Great Miler."

Sub 4:00: Alan Webb and the Quest for the Fastest Mile (Paperback) - Common