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Welcome to episode 131 of Coach Bennett's podcast. This one is entitled, Why I Didn't Break 4.

That's right. We're going autobiographical for this one.

Why I didn't break four. And by four, I mean four minutes. And I'm talking about four minutes in the mile because I didn't break four minutes in the mile. So here's going to be the story of why, because it was one of my biggest goals.

When I started running, the sub four barrier, it's a magical barrier, four laps on the track, well, four laps in nine meters, but four laps on the track, you've got to average under 60 seconds, and if you can do that,

you get to call yourself a sub four-minute miler forever. And I dedicated a long, long time. I ran

hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands of miles in the hope that I would break four minutes and I, well,

I didn't. So this is that story. And now I'm thinking maybe I didn't run tens of thousands of

miles. I mean, if you think for, we'll say a good 10 years, maybe 12 years, I was trying to do this, at least dedicated to

one day doing it, 12 months. Yeah, I don't, maybe it's not 10, anyway, the point is, I ran a lot

trying to do this. And I got close. How close? Well, maybe I'll tell you by the end but right now the

point is I want to go through the reasons why I didn't break four because here's the thing

I believe I was talented enough and I believe I may have been in shape to do it actually a couple of times, but I didn't.

So we're going to break it down.

And I think this is a good exercise.

One, it's me maybe expunging some demons from my soul.

It's not, I don't, listen, I don't think about not breaking four minutes every day.

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