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In 2013, I was traveling alone through Great Britain, visiting archives throughout south England for my dissertation research.  I spent a few weeks in Oxford, pawing through 400-year-old paper in the Bodleian Library.  One weekend, I jogged from my rented room out to the Iffley Road Track, where Roger Bannister, a medical student, broke four minutes for the mile in 1954. Bannister passed away this past Sunday at the age of 88. 

I have had the good fortune to visit many interesting places in Europe, but Iffley Road stands out in my mind as a unique testament to the human will's ability to redefine our notions of the possible.  I have deep gratitude to Dr. Bannister whose run in Oxford was emblematic of this lesson.

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