I once ran a mile in under 4 minutes, can you bet that? The history of the mile run event began in England, 
The best I can do is in grade school I ran a 7 minute mile. How did you train to get so fast?
I practice every morning, that was how I trained myself,  In spite of the roughly equivalent 1500 metres race, the mile run is present in all fields of athletics
Do you know when it started to be ran as an athletic event?
Oh yes, the history of the mile run began in England and it initially found usage within the wagered running contests of the 18th and 19th century.
I thought England used the Kilometer not the mile? Why do they run the mile if they use another measure of distance?
Don't really know, but distance of the English mile gained its current definition of 1,760 yards through a statute of the Parliament of England in 1593.
That is interesting, are there any other interesting facts about the mile as a race?
in all fields of athletics and it remains the only imperial distance for which the IAAF records an official world record. Although the mile does not feature at any major championship competition, the Wanamaker Mile, Dream Mile, and Bowerman Mile races are among the foremost annual middle-distance races indoors and outdoors, respectively.
The current mile world record holders are Morocco's Hicham El Guerrouj with a time of 3:43.13 and Sifan Hassan of The Netherlands with the women's record of 4:12.33.
History.
The distance of the
retrospect, was a good decision. "My feeling as I look back is one of great relief that I did not run a four-minute mile under such artificial circumstances," he said.
But other runners were making attempts at the four-minute barrier and coming close as well. American Wes Santee ran 4:02.4 on 5 June, the fourth-fastest mile ever. And at the end of the year, Australian John Landy ran 4:02.0.
Then early in 1954, Landy made some more attempts at the