On Wednesday, June 2, runners from all over the world to join Olympic medalist Meb Keflezighi in Virtual NYRR Global Running Day 1M and accompanying youth race
From NYRR
New York Road Runners (NYRR) have announced its virtual experiences for Global Running Day on Wednesday, June 2, a...
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Since 1999, NYRR has offered free youth fitness programs, now serving 267,000 youth nationally, including 134,000 across New York City’s five boroughs
NEW YORK – New York Road Runners (NYRR) has announced that three-time Olympian and Team New Balance athlete Jenny Simpson has partnered with...
Bill Benson completed the one-Mile race through Manhattan for the 16th time. He's on a quest to run 1,000 lifetime races.
By Kit Fox, Runner's World
Competition at the Fifth Avenue Mile in New York City became a little tougher this year when the 70-year-old age group ran in Bill Benson’s...
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Sydney Maree soundly beats top international field, sets still standing men's event record in inaugural year 1981
By Bring Back the Mile
The Fifth Avenue Mile, contested on one of the world’s most famous thoroughfares, was the brainchild of New York Road Runners Club president & impresario...
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Three-time Olympian Nick Willis and USA champion Morgan Uceny also among top competitors
NEW YORK — Moscow World Championships silver medalist Matthew Centrowitz and teenage track sensation Mary Cain will headline the NYRR Wanamaker Mile fields at the NYRR Millrose Games on Saturday, February...
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By Barbara Huebner, NYRR News Service
Last year, New York Road Runners sponsored the men’s NYRR Wanamaker Mile for the first time. Matthew Centrowitz took charge to win his professional debut at the distance in 3:53.92.
On Saturday night, Centrowitz will return to the New Balance Track &...
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By Barbara Huebner, NYRR News Service
Donn Cabral was a track star at Connecticut’s Glastonbury High School, about two hours northeast of New York City. After that, he was a track star at New Jersey’s Princeton University, about an hour southwest. Never all that far from the Millrose Games, but...
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By Barbara Huebner, NYRR News Service
It didn’t take Mary Cain long to start looking ahead to the NYRR Wanamaker Mile.
“I know there’s going to be a lot of good competition,” said Cain on Saturday night, soon after obliterating the U.S. high school indoor record for two Miles at the New...
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By Barbara Huebner, NYRR News Service
The inaugural Bring Back the Mile Tour, consisting of 13 events across the United States, will kick off on Saturday with men’s and women’s Miles at the New Balance Indoor Grand Prix in Boston and the Camel City Indoor Mile in Winston-Salem, NC. Stop Number...
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By Barbara Huebner, New York Road Runners
Matthew Centrowitz set a huge personal best at Thursday’s Diamond League meeting in Lausanne, Switzerland, and said that he’s not done yet.
“I still have a lot of racing left in me,” he said here after coming on strong in the last half-lap of the 1500...
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