Martin said after he broke the record, "it was cool to see" others were excited for him. "You usually don't get that type of environment at a small, local meet," Martin told CBS News.
"But to have everyone going crazy over what I had just done was really cool. To my teammates coming up and hugging me, my coach hugging me, and other kids from other schools coming up and patting me on the back. It was cool," he said., he did it five more times before graduating. In 1965, his best time during a high school race was a 3:58.3 mile.
His mile time wasn't beat until 2001, when high schooler Alan Webb ran a 3:53.43 mile at Nike's Prefontaine Classic. Both Ryun and Webb went on to be Olympic athletes.have run sub-4 minute miles, their races did not have the same conditions as Ryun and Martin's. Other runners competed with pacers or "rabbits" to help the keep up their speed, or their races were not high school-only.
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