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From: Daniel Hubler [mailto:dhubler@viscern.com] 
Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 1:49 PM
To: phoffman@cs.uml.edu
Subject: Another 4:0 8 Miler

Hi,

I searched "cross country" and came across your site.  Very enjoyable.
Thanks.

I notice that a runner from my high school was not listed among your best
times for milers.

In 1968 Scott Hiles ran a 4:08 in the Golden West Invitational in San
Francisco.  Scott had never run before he tried out for the track team at
Madison Heights High School in Anderson, Indiana.  The track coach saw this
kid running on the roads one winter day with towels pinned around his legs
with safety pins.  He was too poor to afford sweat pants.  The coach talked
him to coming out for the track team.  By the end of the season, his first
remember, he won the state mile and two mile.  He won the national race in
San Fran.  He still holds the high school record for the mile and two mile,
set in 1968.  His two mile time was 8:56.

He went to Indiana University and ran for Coach Sam Bell.  Scott loved the
mile and no other distance.  Coach Bell had other runners who could win the
mile so he put Scott in the two mile to score more team points.  Scott only
wanted to run the mile.  I watched him run at Ball State University in the
two mile.  When he got to the mile, he stopped and walked off the track.  It
was "let me run the mile, or I quit."

Coach Bell must have forced the issue, because Scott quit.  Here we have a
19-year-old kid who could run a 4:04 mile as a sophomore in college, who
quit, and never went back to running.

I hope you can verify his mile time and list him on the best mile times
list.

Again, thanks for the site.

Daniel Hubler