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

Gary Martin, a senior at Archbishop Wood Excessive Faculty Warminster, Penn., broke a prestigious monitor and subject report at the Pennsylvania Catholic League Championship on Monday by working a mile in beneath four minutes. Martin's run broke a record that had stood for almost 60 years.

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

Ryun turned the first excessive schooler to run a mile in below 4 minutes in 1964, then broke his own document five instances earlier than graduating. Ryun's time of record 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 famous, although, that Ryun was the one athlete to do so in excessive school-only competitors, with out the usage of a pacer.

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

"I would prefer to think that it's not loopy for me to say that it's a dream now," Martin instructed CBS News. "Obviously, I'm nonetheless a protracted methods away and have some work to do, however I am assured in my ability. I have the dream, now I simply need to put the work in and chase it."

Primarily based on his beating Ryun's mark, Martin's dreams may very nicely be in attain. After his record run in the Nineteen Sixties, Ryun went on to compete in three Olympic finals, successful silver in 1500m throughout the 1968 Mexico City Olympics.