In the 66 years since the sub-4 door was opened, more than 1,500 male athletes have run a sub-4 minute Mile, while just 109 women have run 1500 meters in less than four minutes.
By Sonia O’Sullivan, The Irish Times
It's over 30 years now since I ran my first competitive Mile race. Back in...
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The organizers will make sure that the effort is in compliance with official record keeping procedures as well as California group size state mandates
By Cory Mull, MileSplit.com
The outdoor track & field season may be over, but six high school athletes from the west coast have a plan in...
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“I definitely have more fun with the 1500 and the Mile. That’s what I would prefer to do..."
By Sieg Lindstrom, Track & Field News
Call it a long, loooong weekend. Or “there’s no place like home.” It’s the story of Mile star Elle Purrier’s spring at her family’s dairy farm in northern...
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Progressive overload was achieved not by increasing the number of repetitions, nor by reducing the recovery, but rather more simply by incrementally increasing the speed of the reps.
By Tim Brennan & Matt Long, Athletics Weekly
Nearly 2,000 athletes have paid their own tribute to the great...
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