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Bring Back the Mile Launches Anniversary Contest

December 12, 2012

$359 Running Warehouse gift certificate for the winning video or photo to be featured in BBTM’s #IAMTHEMILE anniversary video

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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – (December 12, 2012) – Bring Back the Mile launched on January 18, 2012 with a video and a cardboard...

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Auckland’s ‘Golden Mile’ Run Returns

December 12, 2012

By Kelsey Fletcher, Auckland Now

Almost 30 years after running its last race, Auckland's Queen St Golden Mile is back.

The central city run is being reinstated next year by the John Walker Find Your Field of Dreams Foundation.

But in a twist it will be open to professional athletes,...

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Ben Blankenship is on the Comeback Trail

December 07, 2012

By Down the Backstretch

When Ben Blankenship, who has clocked a 3:54 Mile, looks out the window of the "house on the hill" in Eugene, that he shares with Hassan Mead, he sees "the cathedral," Hayward Field at the University of Oregon.  It has become one of the training sites Blankenship will...

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The Super Milers Documentary: Thumbs Up, Way Up!

December 03, 2012

Outstanding, compelling hour-plus video covers the eleven world record holders of the Mile from Bannister to Coe

By Bring Back the Mile

The Super Milers documentary from Great Britain’s Channel 4 is entertaining and simply riveting. The hour-plus video covers the eleven world record holders...

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Return the Mile to prominence on the American & worldwide sports and cultural landscape by elevating and celebrating the Mile to create a movement.

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Bring Back the Mile as the premier event in the sport, and increase interest in and media coverage of the Mile for both those who love the distance as well as the general public.

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Bring Back the Mile to celebrate the storied distance and to recognize the people who made and make the Mile great and to promote Mile events and the next generation of U.S. Milers.

NATIONAL MOVEMENT
Bring Back the Mile to create a national movement for the Mile as America’s Distance,
to inspire Americans to run the Mile as part of their fitness program and to replace the 1600 meters at High School State Track & Field Meets across the country.

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