Students at Plainville’s Toffolon School run Mile in historic times

“I’m proud of these students. They made a goal and achieved it!"

From The Bristol Press

Four new names have been added to Toffolon School’s “Top Ten Milers” Board in Plainville.

The board lists the students with the 10 fastest times for the Mile run in the history of Toffolon School....

A love of running helps the author’s father and son cope with illness and unites three generations

I remember as a young boy going through the scrapbook he kept as a teenager full of clippings from Roger Bannister running the first sub-4 minute Mile in 1954

By Scott Reid, Orange County Register

My first memory of really running, running with a purpose, is from the early summer of 1968.

I...

David Bailey honored as first Canadian to run a Mile in under 4 minutes

“It was a big deal in ’66 when he did it — very few in the world had at that point. I know how difficult it is to accomplish that, so we want to celebrate the achievement.”

By Hailey Salvian, The London Free Press

On June 11, 1966, David Bailey tried to do what no Canadian had ever done — run...

HS Junior Kate Murphy Clocks 4:07, Qualifies for Olympic Trials 1500

“I knew this was one of my last shots at getting it [the Trials standard], and I just knew I had to be really brave.”

By Taylor Dutch, FloTrack.org

BOSTON — Kate Murphy was on a mission to run the Olympic Trials qualifying standard of 4:09.50 Friday evening at Dilboy Stadium. She accomplished...