Defending champions Manzano, Kampf to face formidable field including Lagat, Centrowitz, Leer, McNamara, Grunewald, Sifuentes and more; $30,000 overall prize purse for 6th edition
By Drake Athletics
Grand Blue Mile race officials today unveiled a prestigious field of invitational championship...
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Reigning Bring Back the Mile Grand Prix Tour champion: "I always had this ‘sky’s the limit’ mentality."
By MacKenzie Lobby Havey, Special for the Star Tribune
When you plug the name “Heather Dorniden” into a search engine, you’re flooded with results about courage and determination. The...
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11th edition to draw 3,000 runners to cultural heart of Minnesota; event also second stop on the Bring Back the Mile Tour 2015
ST. PAUL, Minn. – Hennepin Avenue will provide the dramatic backdrop for the Medtronic TC 1 Mile, which will draw more than 3,000 runners to a brand new downtown...
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David Bishop wins two-horse race at 27th edition in Bermuda
By Josh Ball, The Royal Gazette
David Bishop won an anti-climactic KPMG Front Street Mile Elite Men’s race as the Bermuda Marathon Weekend got off to a typically soggy start last night.
Bishop, of Britain, came home in a time of 4...
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HOKA ONE ONE presents the historic milestones, Mile events and U.S. Milers that headlined the year
By Ryan Lamppa, Bring Back the Mile
Wow, what a year for the Mile as the storied distance had another noteworthy year of milestone anniversaries, exciting races, fast performances, records, new...
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A time of Thanksgiving and ahead more wishes fulfilled for the storied distance
By David Monico, Bring Back the Mile
There are many things to be thankful for this week, but we couldn’t have been more thrilled to see last week that the Mile was included in the list of qualifying events for the...
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Bring Back the Mile Grand Prix Tour 2014 champion: "my future lies" as a Miler
By Jeff Hollobaugh for Track & Field News
When Heather Kampf (née Dorniden) ran at Minnesota under coach Gary Wilson, she was a true 800 runner, strong enough to win the 2006 NCAA Indoor. “That was definitely my...
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Record 14 women break 4:30 in the same Mile race; 15 men go sub-4; world's largest road Mile draws 5,610 finishers who race down storied thoroughfare
From NYRR
NEW YORK – Jenny Simpson had all the momentum—and the pressure—when she lined up for the 2014 NYRR Fifth Avenue Mile late Saturday...
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"Bring Back the Mile, Ryan Lamppa, has created this awesome circuit and really promoted it incredibly well through social media trying to get more attention for middle distance races particularly the Mile." - Jack Bolas, 2014 Minnesota Mile champion
From WDIO in Duluth, MN
When you think of...
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By Carrie Tollefson, CTolleRun.com
Carrie Tollefson brings you highlights from the Minnesota Mile! The annual event runs through downtown Duluth on the historic cobblestone streets of Superior Ave. The 2014 event is also host to the final stop in the Bring Back the Mile Grand Prix Tour.
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