June 26, 2012
"If I had anything to do with that... maybe I inspired everybody too much, maybe I created a monster...''
By Tim Layden, Sports Illustrated
EUGENE, Ore. - It has been all the talk for nearly a decade now, that middle- and long-distance running in the United States has been resurrected from...
Read More
June 25, 2012
By Alex Hoyt, Runner's World
On January 6, 2012, Alan Webb returned to the Armory, a brick bastion of a facility in Upper Manhattan where, almost 11 years earlier, he became the first high schooler since 1967 to break 4:00 in the Mile, and the first ever to do so indoors. This race was...
Read More
June 24, 2012
By Tim Stevens, The News & Observer
Julie Shea Sutton and Wesley Frazier are separated by generations, but the love of running they share gives them a common link.
Frazier, a senior at Ravenscroft School, broke Shea’s high school girls state mile record during a race in New York on June 9 and...
Read More
June 23, 2012
By Tim Layden, Sports Illustrated
EUGENE, Ore. -- They were the lab rats. Test cases for the digital world that lay ahead and now greets every runner who shows a hint of promise, subjecting them to the scrutiny that comes with being fast young. It was the spring of 2001 and two runners born 14...
Read More