Mile News


Tuohy breaks girls U.S. high school Mile record

June 17, 2018

"I can’t even begin to think what she’d run if it were a race and perfect conditions. If she had people with her and it was 75 degrees, God knows how fast she could run."

By Nancy Haggerty, Rockland / Westchester Journal News

She ran like she knew she could.

And like every track fan in the...

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Runner just misses first sub-4 Mile

June 14, 2018

“This is my third year going after it, and I’m getting close. There’s no other pressures for qualifying or winning, so I can just have fun with it and go fast.”

By Andrew Dawson, Runner's World

As Charlie Marquardt did striders along the track before his Mile race at the Adrian Martinez...

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More than 12,000 runners make Mile history in inaugural IAAF Run 24:1

June 10, 2018

International event "captured in a single live feed and hopefully thousands of new runners joining the biggest global sport on the planet.”

From IAAF

Taking to the streets in 24 cities across 15 time zones, more than 12,000 runners participated in the inaugural IAAF Run 24:1 global campaign...

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America’s Next Great Running Hope?

June 09, 2018

Why do so many gifted teenage female distance runners fizzle out by their early 20s, unable to capture the speed of their youth?

By Matthew Futterman, New York Times

It’s not clear exactly when a high school sophomore named Katelyn Tuohy became the next great phenom in American distance...

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