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Wolverines learn to lap up ‘Michigan Mile’

September 29, 2015

"It's a good way to make the body feel better. It's good to run. I think distance running does that. You have to coordinate your whole mind and body with some distance running."

Angelique S. Chengelis, The Detroit News

Michigan football players don't love it, but they are embracing the...

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Drew Hunter: Homemade Champion

September 28, 2015

In the coming year he might even become the 8th U.S. high schooler to break 4 minutes in the Mile. Or the first boy from Northern Virginia to win the Foot Locker Cross Country Championship.

By Dickson Mercer, Run Washington

Marc and Joan Hunter, the head coaches at South Lakes High School,...

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St. Ninians is Miles ahead: The School that Fired Starting Gun on Running Revolution

September 28, 2015

The ‘daily Mile’ completed by primary pupils in Stirling is said to aid concentration as well as fitness. Other schools across the UK are taking notice

By Nicola Slawson, The Guardian

As soon as the children at one primary school in Stirling hear the words “daily Mile”, they down their...

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Records fall at Pilot Butte Challenge

September 28, 2015

The 1-Mile run (run-walk for many) to the top of the Bend landmark certainly lives up to its name

By Victoria Jacobsen, The Bulletin

Here’s the thing about the Pilot Butte Challenge: Yes, the race to the top of the Bend landmark is dispiritingly steep and occasionally vertigo-inducing. And...

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