JNR
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I don't want to rain on your parade, and I don't think you lied, but made a common mistake. The standard "mile-like" race in the US has been the 1600 meters in high schools and the "metric mile" 1500 meters in other levels for years, but many just call both the mile. I was an average runner so I find anyone that can run 4 minute 1500 meter fast also, but 4 minute mile can still only be done by very high level runners. Most good college level good runners can run a 4 minute metric mile. I suspect you ran 1500 meters in 3:58, which considering elite runners run in 3:45 or better, that is still fast. Check US track and field result times. If you ran the 1500 in 3:58, that us a 4:13 mile pace, but 3:58 mile would make you 6th high schooler ever to run that fast.??? I don't see how people ever thought the 4min mile was impossible. Dimitri and I both beat the 4min mile at a track meet in 10th grade and we weren't even people put olympic levels of training in, we just raced weekly during our gym period and eventually reached 3:58.
Only 5 US high schoolers have broken 4 minute mile to this date.