re: Runner looks to become 4th Louisianian to break a 4 minute mile

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I was a cross country runner, fastest mile i ever ran was 5:45 and i couldnt imagine going any faster. Its truly unreal

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I know this will sound like an OT brag or whatever but I ran a 5:15 in 9th grade as a basketball player with zero track. In order to make our varsity team you had to either run under 6:00 minutes or you ran the entire the mile before tryouts for the entire 2 weeks until you could make the time or until you made the team. Once you did it you were exempt for future years but I was so nervous about it going into HS I ran 8-9 miles a day on top of playing basketball 3-4 hours a day to get ready so it was pretty easy. Obviously a 5:15 is NOWHERE near a 4 minute mile but I know I could have broken 5 pretty easily if I stuck with it.