Mile News


After the Mile

March 13, 2013

Tim Danielson was among an exclusive group of runners who had broken the mystic four-minute barrier. Now he is a runner shackled, charged with killing his ex-wife.

By Jere Longman, New York Times

SAN DIEGO — It was to be a reunion of Southern California’s top high school runners, more than a...

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Changing the World, One Step at a Time

March 13, 2013

By Katherine Keel, Team USA

A hand roughly shook his shoulder as he heard the panicked whispers from his friends, “Wake up, Lopepe, we have to go NOW!” Though his legs felt like lead, the soles of his feet were bloody and he could barely walk, he began shuffling forward as fast as he could.

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Will Leer Does the Albuquerque Double

March 13, 2013

By Down the Backstrecth

Will Leer went to Albuquerque to battle Bernard Lagat and returned a double USA champion.  The Minnetonka grad had won NCAA DIII Championships, but the 3000m/Mile double at the USA Indoor Championships was his first, and second national titles. The double prompted one...

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Notre Dame’s Aragon Sisters Join Family Legacy

March 12, 2013

Father, Chuck Aragon, was the first Fighting Irish to break 4 minutes in the Mile.

By Dan Murphy, Blue & Gold Illustrated

Alexa and Danielle Aragon heard the kind of stories that many fathers like to tell their children as they head off to college. They heard about chickens showing up in the...

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