The Bring Back the Mile Grand Prix Tour is a series of the nation's best Mile events and top Mile athletes, presented in partnership with Running Warehouse. Learn more on the BBTM Tour page linked above in the top menu bar. Tour news below.
Open champions could earn $15,000 with a victory and a course record; 3,000 to race down Nicollet Mall at 9th edition; inaugural Bring Back the Mile Tour 2013 event - 5th stop
ST. PAUL, Minn. – (April 25, 2013) – Four Olympians will add international spice and proven talent to the professional...
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Tri-Cities Track Classic in Johnson City, TN to honor Ray Flynn with HS Boys' Mile
By Bring Back the Mile
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. - The Tri-Cities Track Classic, organized by Knoxville Youth Athletics, is hosting its annual Track & Field festival for the first time at Kermit Tipton Stadium at...
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By The Johnson City News & Neighbor
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. - The inaugural Tri-Cities Track Classic is scheduled for April 19 and 20 at Science Hill High School’s Kermit Tipton Stadium. Event planners say the meet will be an event that’s unprecedented in high school track and field in the region....
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By Presidio Sports
Santa Barbara’s Ryan Lamppa has always thought that the Mile distance deserves more credit. Once a showcase in American sports, the Mile has gradually slipped from prominence in running competitions throughout the country.
It’s that belief that led to Lamppa hatching a...
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By Peter Gambaccini, Runner's World
Bring Back the Mile, the organization with the self-professed goal “to return the mile to prominence on the American sports and cultural landscape by elevating and celebrating the mile,” spent its first year focusing on promotion and consciousness-raising....
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A 200 meter flat track in North Carolina vies to remove stigma that all flat tracks are slow with $4000 up for grabs in professional Mile.
By Bring Back the Mile
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - In August of 2011, a 105,000 square foot, 200 meter Mondo flat track, began to come to life in Winston-Salem,...
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Inaugural tour includes 13 stops and end-of-the-year gala celebrating America’s distance from sea to shining sea
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – (January 28, 2013) – Bring Back the Mile, the national campaign to elevate and celebrate the iconic distance, has announced its inaugural tour that includes...
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Top Milers compete for more than $4000 in prize money at the Hilton Garden Innvitational; collegians looking for NCAA qualifying marks
WINSTON‐SALEM, N.C. – (January 28, 2013) – JDL Fast Track today made their final announcement of the field for the Camel City Indoor Mile, to be held at JDL...
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By Brett Hoover and Tim Fulton, Armory Track
When Regan Ward toes the line in the New Balance Games high school Mile on Saturday, she might not want to look up. After all, there will be more people looking back down at her than live in her entire hometown of Beggs, Okla. (pop. 1,321).
But...
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Girls' and boys' Miles to feature 2012 HS National Champion and top regional talent.
By New Balance Indoor Grand Prix
BOSTON – (Jan. 24, 2013) – True to the sport’s roots, the country’s top high school indoor milers will once again descend on Boston for the New Balance Indoor Grand Prix – set...
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Bring Back the Mile as the premier event in the sport, and increase interest in and media coverage of the Mile for both those who love the distance as well as the general public.
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