Rodger Bannister

[Mike T]

Yes, a great man, simple but effective training - 400 metre repeats at 4 minute mile pace - but sub-4; did he? All 4 timers got the same time; manual timers under-estimate by about 1/4 of a second. Sure, he did it by the standards of that era.

I should add that his Textbook of Neurology, written believe it or not with a chap called Brain - was excellent - it made a potentially very difficult subject relatively easy to get to grips with.