"I only ran for place. I never ran for time. The 4 minute Mile was mentioned, but I wasn't interested in it at all. That probably was a mistake because I could have done that. I could have done it had that been something I really wanted to do and used as a goal."
By Gary D’Amato, Milwaukee...
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By David Monti, (c) 2011 Race Results Weekly, all rights reserved
Ryan Shay was the workhorse of American marathon running before his sudden death at the 2008 U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials in New York at 28-years-old. Shay, who ran for Notre Dame and later won the 2003 USA Marathon title, was...
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By George Diaz, Orlando Sentinel
The first step of Jenny Barringer Simpson's athletic career began as a third-grader competing in a Mile race around a soccer field. She finished second to a girl named Brittany Baxter.
Brittany went to become a cheerleader at Oviedo High School.
Jenny went...
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By Alexis Terrazas, San Francisco Examine
Andy Chan first witnessed it 14 years ago, and has seen it hundreds of times since.
It’s the simple sight of his former student, Shannon Rowbury, jumping up and down two to three times before each and every race. But four years ago at the Beijing...
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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.
ELEVATE
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.
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