Photo taken from Earthwatch’s Cheetah expedition. Credit: Vicky Potts, Earthwatch Training for my swim of the London Channel at Oxford University’s Rosenblatt pool , I am humbled by achievement, and that’s before I even enter the gates. The sports complex adjoins the running track where Roger Bannister broke the four-minute mile barrier for

the first time in 1954. I can almost picture him bracing for the line, surrounded by timekeepers and journalists in flat caps with wide open mouths. And the images are i… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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