Rick Wohlhuter: 40 Years Later Still The American Record Holder
Jul 30, 2014
We live in a metric world, even if Americans don’t see it on a daily basis. One simple case in point are the running tracks that one sees at almost every high school and college. Because the international standard (and every Olympics) is in meters, runners today more easily identify with 5K runs than three-milers. And while we still drive our cars in ‘miles’, everyone else thinks in kilometers, 1000 meters. 1000 meters, such a nice round number. Back in the day, the 1-Mile race was big, because it was a standard everyone knew and understood.