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

Gary Martin, a senior at Archbishop Wooden Excessive Faculty Warminster, Penn., broke a prestigious track and area document on the Pennsylvania Catholic League Championship on Monday by running a mile in underneath 4 minutes. Martin's run broke a report that had stood for almost 60 years.

Martin ran a mile in 3:57:98 with out the help of a pacer, breaking a file that had been set by Jim Ryun in 1965.

Ryun became the primary excessive schooler to run a mile in beneath 4 minutes in 1964, then broke his own report five occasions before graduating. Ryun's time of file was 3:58.3, a mark which Martin broke by lower than a second.

Martin is now the 14th American high school athlete to break 4 minutes, and his time now ranks third all-time in outdoor runs. It must be noted, although, that Ryun was the one athlete to do so in excessive school-only competitors, with out the use of a pacer.

Martin's run was a major milestone he prepares to attend the University of Virginia upon commencement. Speaking about his long-term goals, Martin hopes to turn out to be an Olympic athlete.

"I would prefer to assume that it's not loopy for me to say that it's a dream now," Martin advised CBS News. "Obviously, I'm still a protracted ways away and have some work to do, but I'm confident in my potential. I've the dream, now I simply have to put the work in and chase it."

Based mostly on his beating Ryun's mark, Martin's desires could very well be in attain. After his file run within the Sixties, Ryun went on to compete in three Olympic finals, winning silver in 1500m in the course of the 1968 Mexico Metropolis Olympics.