Bascomb’s Perfect Mile

In The Perfect Mile: Three Athletes, One Goal, and Less Than Four Minutes to Achieve It, Neal Bascomb tells the story of the race among Wes Santee, John Landy, and Roger Bannister to be the first human to run a mile in fewer than four minutes. Mr. Bascomb’s recounting of the events that led up to and followed Dr. Bannister’s historic, spring-1954 run of 3:59.4 at Iffley Road Track in Oxford (England, UK) combines a reporter’s skill in telling the story and a historian’s penchant for connecting details from original and secondary sources.

Shentai Carnival

Too bad we’re in South Korea, else we’d be seeing the Shentai Carnival. If someone would post a review or a link to her notes about the show in the comments, that’d be appreciated.

Update: See Ed Deasy’s comment here and Shentai Update for photos.