The mile's been around much longer than the idea of the four minute mile. The ancient greeks who kind of kick the whole thing off by coming up with a measurement called the state. And so if you were, if you were running around a a modern track, like a track and field track, you would go half way and stop,. That's what i do when i run, go about half way around the track. I'm finished. Uh? But that was the greeks in to their running events.