Boys Race Story by Geoffrey Decker
Videos courtesy of the adidas Grand Prix
Boys' Dream Mile Lukas Verzbicas makes history, becoming the fifth U.S. high school student to break the 4-minute mile barrier, and only the second after Jim Ryun, to do it a high school-only race.
When a runner reaches enough milestones, breaks enough records, and claims enough titles, he inevitably comes to believe that any goal can come within reach. That's an attitude that can be at once both dangerous and powerful.
For Lukas Verzbicas, who's accomplished just about everything there is in a high school running career, that was case on Saturday. Coming off perhaps his finest performance of them all, a two-mile record at last week's Prefontaine Classic, Verzbicas admitted that breaking four minutes in the adidas Grand Prix Dream Mile should be easy.
