Since this video is taking off now, yes, I know I accidentally called Pavvo Nurmi Swedish lmao. This was my first genuine running docu, so there may be some small errors sprawled out. Apologies if people were annoyed.

@kenchristie9214

Жыл бұрын

Why can't today's illiterate idiots pronounce route correctly? Also it's not Chris Bray-sher, it's Chris Brash-er.

@tonylove4800

Жыл бұрын

You called him Finnish the first time. Great doco. Thanks.

@RunnerBoi

Жыл бұрын

@@kenchristie9214 I guess you know how to pronounce his name better than Bannister himself, given he used the former in his Mile race voiceover.

@carlpeterkirkebo2036

Жыл бұрын

Could also consider talking a bit slower. Sounds like the commentator is trying to break a WR in words per minute.

@carlpeterkirkebo2036

Жыл бұрын

At 32:09 you can for instance hear how "Ovett" is properly pronounced.

I’ve ran 2 sub 5 minute miles. So some of these records are just absolutely insane to me

@kmancometh

Жыл бұрын

As a sprinter in High School that has done 400m sprints, for those who have never competed in 400m or a mile, you have no idea what exhaustion is.

@litterhoesin5554

Жыл бұрын

@@kmancometh 400m ain’t even exhausting jus walk it off after you finish don’t sit down

@Regocike

Жыл бұрын

@@litterhoesin5554 like i could walk after a 400m sprint

@greatemu6837

Жыл бұрын

Yeah 400 is death. If you could walk it off, you ain’t going hard enough.

@Brett733

Жыл бұрын

even under 5 minutes seems crazy to me. Getting under 9 minutes for the 1.5 mile run we used to have to do as a firefighter seemed difficult to me, but that was at 220 lbs.

I love how the the start of the video shows pictures of beefy dudes in suits and top hats and says they ran 4 minute miles

@cmur078

2 күн бұрын

Just to clarify though, the guys in the pictures are Victorian amateur gentlemen runners, and there's no way any of them got 4 minute miles. The guys with the supposed 4 minute times were 18th century working class semi-professionals, and they didn't run in suits (you can see in the screenshot it says one of them ran naked). They're a lot more interesting, as they had the time to train, and surveying and timekeeping were fairly good (and there were massive amounts of money riding on the races), so it might have happened.

i usually watch video game speedrunning videos, but real world speed running is surprisingly engaging, great work my dude

@xyzzyx7812

Жыл бұрын

it's not decades, but centuries of history

@nelocarbon3284

Жыл бұрын

For me it's the exact opposite. Had my mind blown by the chase to go under 60min in Super Mario Odyssey🤯

@jamesdmack

Жыл бұрын

Video didn't start with HOME's "We're Finally Landing" and I was genuinely confused.

@DuncanEvers

Жыл бұрын

@@jamesdmack Hahaha me too

@grandmastermario3695

9 ай бұрын

Oh wow I speedrun video games as well, I run lots of games, although I also do real physical track and feild as well as games, I'm mainly a sprinter though in physical track.

While hitchhiking through Europe in 1975, I made sure I got to the track where Bannister set the mile, and of course, I ran a mile (considerably slower).

@szymon6207

Жыл бұрын

Do you road 3:42 ?

How is this only at 3k views this is an actual masterpiece

@historylife4436

Жыл бұрын

It’s at 30K views and still should have more! Great video

@ebrown112

Жыл бұрын

@@historylife4436 now we’re at 57k views and i’d say that’s an appropriate amount. people should stop watching this video immediately. too bad we can’t share it any more bc it is a pretty great vid.

@PineappleSquuid

Жыл бұрын

@@historylife4436 oh sick

@jessemach5817

Жыл бұрын

True

@theMrRyder1

Жыл бұрын

Up to 83K needs more

The amount of research put into this video is amazing man!

@teknoaija1762

Жыл бұрын

Not so.full of errors like flying being a swede.

@johnmc3862

8 ай бұрын

Except for the pronunciations.

@peterbradbury784

7 ай бұрын

@@johnmc3862 And shite 720p video.

I’m a 78 year old D-1 Track and Cross Country runner. I ran 4:15 Mile; 14:30 @ 3 miles; 49.5 @ 440…and a host of other NCAA level races and times…after watching this documentary, I realize how mediocre I was. I was enlightened by the chronological tracing of the world record. My love for the Sport will never be diminished. My appreciation for guys like Nurmi, Cunningham, Bannister, Ryan, Coe; Ovett et al will be forever an inspiration. Thank you for a marvelous job of research and presentation.

@quintonworthams1562

6 ай бұрын

Correction: “Ryun”

These videos inspire me to add more speed to my runs. Gotta practice for CC season hard.

@leonbrumett6155

Жыл бұрын

Love to see fellow cc runners!

@exigency2231

Жыл бұрын

These videos make me thankful to be a rower

@Thaddeus2007

Жыл бұрын

@@exigency2231 How fun is rowing, I always wanted to do it?

Incredible documentary. Incredible topic as well. But most incredible is how underrated this channel is.

Massively underrated. This video was incredibly done

This deserves so much more views! Amazing video

Excellent video. You put a lot of work into this.

This is SO good thank you for making it

This old footage and commentary is great. Really well put together video. Glued throughout.

@23:40 Steve Prefontaine (RIP) was my hero when I was @Marshfield high school, the same school he attended and set American records. I ran the 800 and Mile there but didn't have the coaching he had and could only shave my times to 4:19.2, it served me well when I served in the US Army though.

Great video! i love these types of documentary style videos

This is miles

@milesmugleston7405

Жыл бұрын

No this is miles

You are really out here dropping bangers

Thank you for the research and effort to put this together

Fantastic documentary. Still remember being at Bislett watching the wr in 1980. A pity that you could not extend the documentary with the Ingebrigtsen/Nuguse Bowerman mile that was almost a repeat of the el guerrouj/ngeny world record run from 1999. I am really looking forward to 2024 Bislett Games when I hope a new chapter in this amazing story will be written.

I usually don’t subscribe after watching the first video but I love your work! Great job

Amazing video!! thank you!

There are very few videos I have put on to listen to and eventually put it on to watch because I get so invested. This was one of them. Great video and I wish my mile stats were close enough to give myself a good perspective.

@szymon6207

6 ай бұрын

AREA REORD Ingebritsen at 3:43.73 PRE-NIKE Classic diamond league MEET !

You did a great job on this video Keep up this quality and you'll go far

@JTA1961

Жыл бұрын

Like a "mile"...even

The amount of detail and production put into this one video blew me away.

Great video. Never cared for running, more of a walker myself, but it was still a great watch all the way through.

This was sick man! The abyss yearns for us all

Great documentary! This is a lot of work, gleaning historical records going so far back was also educational. As a former runner, this was so very entertaining!

@szymon6207

6 ай бұрын

YARED NGUSE AR 3:43.97 (USA)

Enjoyed this thanks!

I watch A LOT of vintage track and field and have never seen some of this footage-or at least views from different angles. The research...Wow. (And, if anyone ever complains about your pronunciation of athletes names: sour grapes...this is a GREAT video).

This is truly a great video presentation. It's such a shame that you put so much effort in to this remarkable piece of work only to have people complain. I personally do not watch KZread videos to be an armchair film critic. I watch them to be educated and entertained. In this case it was great to be reminded of the Coe/Ovette/Cram races. Keep up the good work. It was just amazing to see how far humans have come and how some performances are so great they can takes years to beat.

This is an awesome video!

It's a great story, and you tell it brilliantly.

Awesome video man

This is one of the greatest videos I've ever watched. Thanks !

this deserves so much more

Great video, well worth a sub👍

5 Seconds in and there is a clip of Cr1TiKaL from his "Presidential Fitness Test 1 Mile Run" ... this is going to be good

Welcome back brotha

If only I was alive in 1804

Amazing video bro. Great inspiration as i start training for my first marathon. Barcelona 2023 baby letsssss goooo.

@Ihateschoolsobadly

Жыл бұрын

Good luck buddy, sending my positive vibes. You'll do great!!

@jayure1346

Жыл бұрын

Good luck man give update In an edit if you run sub 4 hour or even a really fast sub 3 hour!!

Incredible video.

Great work to put this together, very absorbing, I didn't know much about the pre-1950's era, good to see that. In the end however it just makes me more suspicious about the North Africans in the 1990's. I have had suspicions about El Guerrouj's training feats, and his record times, for years. Now I also see the two seconds that Morcelli took off the record in 1993, at the exact time the pro cycling world was being ripped apart by EPO ... it just looks bad. Add that to the fact that in an era now where training and tracks have improved so much in the last 20 years, we are not seeing these numbers any more. Well... it makes me think... welcome to hear anyone counter this.

18:43...The Empire games were held in Vancouver, Canada. My home town. The statue of the 2 men still stands on the site. It's title is "The Look" as Landy looked the opposite way as Banister passed him to win the race. The first race to have 2 men break the 4 minute barrier in the same race. Something to remember as the world records stacked up at a certain point in the mile as in all track events is that Banister and Landy ran on a cinder track (loose compressed material) Many future records were run on Mondo synthetic tracks which allow for much quicker times. Shoe technology also improved. It's simply the evolution of sport.

@douglasherron7534

Жыл бұрын

I was going to comment on the changes in track and shoe technology which certainly give current runners an advantage over those at the time of Bannister, Landy, etc. However, it also makes Snell's world record even more impressive as he managed it on grass - which is a slower surface than cinder.

awesome documentary.

Great video :)

I like these documentar-ish videos! (You're like Matthew Mayernik in cubing or SummonSalt in video speedrunning, but yours are really "speedrunning"! )

The algorithm better pick this up soon, criminally underrated!

mile speedrun progression very interesting video

Five of us trained for 2 months to see if we could break 4 minute mile . It is so difficult I ran over 5 minutes I was blowing out of my arse it took about 10 minutes to fully get my breath back. The closest to the time was 4 minutes 32 seconds, these runners must be super human

Great video.

Great vid

this dude sounds like real life lore

love this

I love world record progression videos about speedruns in video games, so it's cool to run across a channel that does videos on record progressions in real-world disciplines. You get a sub for subverting my expectations!

Good video bro

I used to train with a friend who ran twice a day, EVERY DAY. His post-collegiate PR of 4:09, a few years out of school, seemed CRAZY to me!

This was an amazing video. The amount of research is very impressive and you keep it interesting at all times.

Ha - I watched the whole thing! I’m not even a runner. Great stuff!

I really enjoyed following the mile distance competition when Marty Liquori and Jim Ryun were competing. 😉

To add to the achievement of Bannister and Landy running sub 4 at the empire games...that was in Vancouver at Empire Stadium...sea level!! (I got to play football in that stadium in the eighties...hallowed ground!!!)

Chapter One should also include the first recorded sub-4 minute mile, by a native American known as Black Hawk Chief. As a scout employed by the Army he was known to be a very fast runner (scouts ran everywhere), so a group of officers laid out a half-mile track using the steel measuring rods the Army used in the surveying work they carried out as part of their duties.. Black Hawk Chief ran two laps in 3.58 according to their stopwatches. My information comes from a book on native american sports which I sadly no longer have in my possesion. It was recorded in the local press at the time. My opinion is that 4 minutes has always been within the reach of a few talented men throughout human history, when people lived on their feet and many would spend a lot of time running. This would not have been systematic training, but would be similar in its effects.

@admiralaokiji7889

8 ай бұрын

It’s almost impossible that they ran that fast back then. They didn’t have the shoes or correct track to get to that level. These things make a huge difference regardless of training. There’s a reason we are getting 3-4 kids just from America nowadays running the sub4 mile yearly. So back then it was not happening even if they had the talent to do so.

Phenomal video

Awesome video, loved it! Only question though, were all these historical mile races ran at the 1600 meter distance, or the true mile distance of 1609 meters?

Sorry to have to give a correction -- in Bayi's 3:51.0 race, the one right behind Bayi (wearing red) is not John Walker; it's Marty Liquori.

@IdJones11

Жыл бұрын

Yes, I noticed that as well. Loved the video though!

I was a valet from 80 to 84.I thought I was in pretty good shape. So I thought I’d give running a shot. I was 26 and I knew I had to see what I could do in the mile.15 minutes.from there I was obsessed.in the summer of 87 I ran my fastest mile ever.at Centaurus high school in Louisville ,Co 6:19 and change. I would much rather run 10 miles than a mile at break neck speed. I loved it.Mind,Body.and Soul…

Here after Jakob Ingebrigsten and Yared Nuguse got realllllly close last year. They ran 3:43.73 and 3:43.97. Breaking the World Record in the mile is very much back in the conversation. Side note….I often marvel at what athletes like Roger Bannister, herb Elliott or Jim Ryun could do if they were running on modern track surfaces and in Nike vaporflys as opposed to grass tracks and cinder.

How about doing a video on Emil Zatopek? I was born in 1952 and I was given the middle name Emile because of his fame running in the Olympics that year.

As a pretty good, but by no means exceptional runner, I was running under 4:20 in 1500m when in high school in 1985. I never understood why it took so long to break the four minute mark. Shoes hadn't changed much and I trained on a cinder track. By the way Fartleks were a favorite of Mr. Lundin, my cross country, nordic skiing, and track coach!

@leonbrumett6155

Жыл бұрын

This is in no way meant to come across as disrespectful, 4:20 is still a goal of mine and I admire your dedication, but a 4:20 1500 is about a 4:36-4:39 mile. I just finished my freshman year of high school in the spring and tan a 4:44 mile, then over the summer - after starting my training for xc and almost completely cutting out speedwork - I ran a 4:24 1500

Love the film of them running inside a velodrome.

this is a treasure

Those Brits are all like Chariots Of Fire and stuff. My best mike was 8:42 and it about killed me.

Wait so there are *3* different distances for the mile!? 1,500 for the "Metric Mile" even though 1,600 meters, which is the distance of 4 full laps, is closer to the 1,609 meters of an *actual* mile!

It blows my mind this channel has under 10k subs

Summoning salt but track and field

People are putting out great work on you tube about off the beaten track stuff. Engaging, informative and entertaining, all is not lost to the beat of the algorithm.

Motivation.

In 1980 or 81 our high school converted from the imperial measured track and field to metrics…as this was a new designation all participants on the track events, from the 100 meter, hurdles, to the long distances were all record setters, so I held a couple school records for all eternity!, I’m certain they have been eclipsed since????

the Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy music in the start lol

Gotta add Ingebrigtsen and Nuguse to the top 5 list with them both running under 3:44 last year, and I see a few athletes with the possibility of going under the record in the coming years.

If I run a mile under 8 minutes I'm happy.

Shout out to Jim Ryan my hometown hero.

@todallard8791

Жыл бұрын

I found the section on Jim Ryun lacking, with so much put into other athletes no mention of him being the first High School runner to break 4 and also that he beat Peter Snell when he ran with a time of 3:55.3 while in High School. Peter Snell's training should have been included as he was coached by the legend Arthur Lydiard.

I love your take on pronunciation of the countries and towns, especially Tanzania 😊

@MrVvulf

Жыл бұрын

The pronunciation of Oxford was painful to hear. As if it was a place where oxen ford a river...Ox-Ford.

@stevebagley3436

Жыл бұрын

Agreed. Really enjoyed the video but mispronunciations diminished it a bit. Brasher, Ovett, Tanzania, etc.

@lewisham

Жыл бұрын

And the one no Americans get right, Melbourne. Great video though.

The Bannister sub-4 was not a race as all other runners had to agree in advance that Bannister would be allowed win. This practice was then immediately banned.

Morceli's RAD form! 😗Cram's Dream Mile was the ULTIMATE. El Guerrouj has the most deceptive final kick.

Appreciate that you pronounce tanzania correctly 😁

My shortest mile time (if I had finished it) would’ve been around 8 minutes, I wasn’t sprinting but definitely it was my most athletic time where I was running 3/4 miles almost every day. Ngl I miss it cuz I wasn’t even stressing while jogging, now a days 11 minutes is good enough

The Mile is the best race

19:40 Wow, knowing so much less about Landy than Bannister, other than the name. He comes across as very classy and likeable here.

Nice job... is it possible that now that EPO can be tested appropriately and effectively that's a record is no longer falling? The mile is still the glory event. frequently run by the best runners in the world. I'm not sure I ever heard of the dream 1500 meters?

@Apjooz

Жыл бұрын

Where do they run the mile nowadays?

@daw162

Жыл бұрын

It might not be possible to beat it on EPO, but at some point, someone will create a drug for people who are ill that makes for a faster runner.

How did you manage to call Paavo Nurmi "the flying finn" (finn as in person from Finland) and then call him the most decorated athlete in swedish history is beyond me😂

@szymon6207

7 ай бұрын

Area record 3:43.73 ingebritsen (EU) AND 3:43.97 NGUSE (USA) IN 09.2023

can't believe you didn't bring up matt turk

Pavo Nurmi - the flying finn - was finnish not a sweed

I was really expecting summoning salt music lmao

@chrisneale2036

Жыл бұрын

'And then Coe...did...this...' 😆

Gotta go fast

Hi ha. Will be the king on this distance for a quick long time say decades to come S

We lived opposite the Iffley Road running track and I watched Bannister run that race from our bedroom window as a 12 year old , great memory xx

Where's the Summoning Salt music? Who is Andershin? What is Oxfoard?

El Guerrouj still has 1500m record, so its not because the mile is just not run much anymore that the record still stands. But yes the 1500 is more likely to be broken. Amazing how his times have stood up for over 20 years. He also has the record in the seldom run 2000m.