Speed suits & altitude rooms – how Kerr plans to beat mile world record

Speed suits & altitude rooms – how Kerr plans to beat mile world recordFigure caption, Kerr ready to attempt world mile record this yearByRichard WintonBBC Sport ScotlandPublished2 hours agoEvery day, Josh Kerr writes down the time. Three minutes 43.13 seconds. And every day he is working to render it redundant.That day will come, he hopes, on July 18 at the London Diamond League meeting, when the 28-year-old intends to beat Hicham El Guerrouj’s world record for the mile.Project 222 is what he and his team call it – 222 seconds being what he needs to target to usurp a mark that has stood for 27 years.To say Kerr and his squad have taken a comprehensive approach to making history would be to underplay the level of detail involved in “winning our one per cents”.Bespoke spikes designed to maximise his biomechanics. A similarly specially designed speed suit. Having his physio move in to his Albuquerque home. Parents John and Jill flying out from Scotland to stay with him. Ice baths lasting the exact duration of the race. And an ‘altitude room’ being rigged up in his bedroom.All of it has been charted on YouTube as the countdown edges towards the big day. “A well-orchestrated zoo” is how he describes it.GB’s Kerr to target mile world record in London