High schooler runs sub-4 minute mile, breaks record that had stood since 1965

Gary Martin, a senior at Archbishop Wooden Excessive School Warminster, Penn., broke a prestigious monitor and discipline file on the Pennsylvania Catholic League Championship on Monday by working a mile in below 4 minutes. Martin's run broke a file that had stood for nearly 60 years.

Martin ran a mile in 3:57:98 with out the help of a pacer, breaking a file that had been set by Jim Ryun in 1965.

Ryun turned the first excessive schooler to run a mile in under four minutes in 1964, then broke his own document 5 times before graduating. Ryun's time of record was 3:58.3, a mark which Martin broke by less 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 out of doors runs. It ought to be famous, though, that Ryun was the only athlete to do so in excessive school-only competition, with out the usage of a pacer.

Martin's run was a serious milestone he prepares to attend the University of Virginia upon commencement. Talking about his long-term objectives, Martin hopes to turn out to be an Olympic athlete.

"I would prefer to suppose that it's not loopy for me to say that it is a dream now," Martin told CBS News. "Clearly, I'm nonetheless a protracted ways away and have some work to do, but I'm confident in my means. I've the dream, now I simply should put the work in and chase it."

Based on his beating Ryun's mark, Martin's desires could very nicely be in reach. After his file run in the Sixties, Ryun went on to compete in three Olympic finals, winning silver in 1500m during the 1968 Mexico City Olympics.