Mile News


A Mile in Your Flats

July 19, 2013

The road Mile is simultaneously alluring and terrifying; it's also gaining in popularity; as American as baseball and apple pie

By Erin Strout, Running Times

While the majority of the running world spends its time focused on how to cover 26.2 miles as quickly as possible, it's curious why...

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Holyoke track team encourages athletes to shoot for sub-5 minute Mile

July 19, 2013

Goal: coveted membership in the sub-5 club and earning an invitation to its annual gathering: a dinner event held in early August

By Madison Granger, The Republican

HOLYOKE, Mass. - Members of Holyoke High School’s track and field distance squad, past and present, will gather in a few weeks...

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School’s Out for Summer - Darn

July 19, 2013

San Diego's Alice Birney Elementary running program centers on the Mile

By Toni Reavis

“I want to stay in first grade,” Kaylyn Rodriguez told her dad as she walked up for her final day of the school year at San Diego’s Alice Birney Elementary.  While most kids are anxious for school to be...

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BMC to celebrate 50th anniversary at Iffley Road with classic Mile races

July 18, 2013

Meet at site where Roger Bannister, in 1954, became the first man to break the 4 minute Mile barrier

By Athletics Weekly

There is little room for nostalgia in sport but the British Milers’ Club will turn back the clock when they celebrate their 50th anniversary in Oxford on Saturday, July 20.... Read More comments

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