Olympian and U.S. Mile record holder takes aim at Grandma's Marathon, fresh off a 1:13 half-marathon after using pandemic time to redefine his physique.
By Amby Burfoot, PodiumRunner.com
Alan Webb, the American record holder in the Mile (3:46.91 in 2007), has entered the June 19 Grandma’s...
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“When I saw Manangoi I was like ‘Wow,’ this is a dream come true to be racing against the best guys in the world and doing as good as I did today. It feels really good.”
By Chris Hansen, The Register-Guard
It was the very last Bowerman Mile to ever be contested at storied Hayward Field and...
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"It’s such an intense pain. It starts in your gut and then fans out to your extremities. Your quads, your shoulders. By the end, it just feels like your whole body is on fire.” - Alan Webb
By Tim Layden, Sports Illustrated
LOUISVILLE – There will come a moment, early Saturday evening in the...
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“There should be a purpose for everything you do in training.”
From Jonathan Marcus, High Performance West
Steve Magness and I recently interviewed American Mile great Alan Webb for the On Coaching Podcast. Alan offers amazing insight in this 90-minute tour de force about his training leading...
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"No, I've done more than asked my entire career. Today, I simply want to do enough. I'll run 29-flat and call it good."
By Jonathan Marcus, High Performance West
In the fall of 2013, Alan Webb asked me to coach him. Honestly, he didn't so much ask as he was desperate and had few other...
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"Alan Webb opened my eyes to a lot of things. He made distance running a thing again in the United States... He gave people a reason to care again."
By Eddie Wooten, News & Record
Why I run
"I started when I was 10, but I was involved in a bunch of different sports. I had been playing...
“I had a genuine confidence that I could compete with anybody in the world. And that was a feeling that I’d never had before… I had tasted it before, but that solidified it.”
By Jonathan Gault, LetsRun.com
Matthew Centrowitz still remembers it clearly. It was June 2, 2007, and he was at the...
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“We were in the running industry for so long, that was really all we were. That’s where all our value was, and I think it’s cool we’re able to take the skills we learned there — the hard work, the discipline, the drive — and transfer them over to a different industry.”
By Dave Devine,...
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Southlake Carroll and University of Oregon bound senior invited to the upcoming adidas Boys Dream Mile and Brooks PR Invitational.
By Greg Riddle, SportsDay
SOUTHLAKE -- Southlake Carroll's Reed Brown got tips on how to become one of the fastest teenage Milers in American history from his...
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Rising star and high school indoor Mile record holder to run storied distance again at The Armory in New York City
NEW YORK – Drew Hunter will make his professional indoor debut at the New Balance Games on Saturday, January 21 at The Armory’s New Balance Track & Field Center.
The New Balance...
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