For many, myself included, the now-retired test evokes dread. V-sits. Pull-ups. The Mile run.
By Elissa Nadworny, NPR
For this series, we've been thinking a lot about the iconic tools that some of us remember using — if only for a short time — in our early schooling. Things like the slide...
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A time of Thanksgiving and ahead more wishes fulfilled for the storied distance
By David Monico, Bring Back the Mile
There are many things to be thankful for this week, but we couldn’t have been more thrilled to see last week that the Mile was included in the list of qualifying events for the...
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"I outgrew them, I outlived them. I had no competition there so I started looking at the world records and I thought 'Maybe I can do that.'"
By Mia Watkins, AL.com
Runners at CrossPoint's Church's 13th annual 5K gathered around post-race to listen to the wise words of a special guest,...
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George Dole remembers the announcer giving the time for the race, and when he started saying the time as "three minutes..."...people started cheering so loudly they couldn't hear the rest of the number.
From WCSH6 NewsCenter, Portland, Maine
On May 6, 1954, a young man from Maine became part...
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