The Race of the Century: The Battle to Break the Four-Minute Mile cover

The Race of the Century: The Battle to Break the Four-Minute Mile

Author: Bascomb, Neal

Reading Metrics

Grade Level Middle Grades Plus (MG+ 6 and up)
Book Level 7.4
Points 8.0
Fiction/Nonfiction Nonfiction
Word Count 47529
Points per Word 0.000168
Page Count 256
Points per Page 0.03125

Description

There was a time when running the mile in four minutes was believed to be beyond the limits of human foot speed. In 1952, after suffering defeat at the Helsinki Olympics, three world-class runners each set out to break this barrier.