Alan Webb’s Race Against Time

Alan Webb, who broke the four-minute-mile barrier in high school, failed to qualify for this year’s Olympics.

By Scott Cacciola, The Wall Street Journal

Alan Webb caught himself looking at a list not long ago. It was a list of Americans who had run four-minute miles, and he noticed that it...

Sadly, U.S. track renaissance is leaving Alan Webb behind

"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...

The Return of Alan Webb

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...

Julie Shea and Wesley Frazier share a love of running

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...