The track provides the perfect space to test boundaries, internal and external. Its dimensions are repeated the world over and its beauty lies in its uniformity, but that's not to say that tracks aren't also unique in their own way: in England, we set foot on hallowed ground, a place where boundaries were tested, records broken, and history made.
Shifting the Paradigm
Sir Roger Bannister Track
Iffley Road, Oxford, UK
On the same track where history was made in 1954 when Sir Roger Bannister broke four minutes for the mile, our athletes tackled a workout that was once among Bannister's favorites: 10 x 400m at 1500m pace with a rolling 400m recovery. In the months building up to that historic day, Bannister would run this workout multiple times, gradually cutting down each lap until he ran 59 seconds for the final reps. As part of our spring season focusing on the track, we asked London locals Saskia Millard as well as San Francisco-based Claire Green to take on this linchpin workout and reflect on the idea of barriers.