The true beauty of the Mile: It scans an exact black-and-white photocopy of who you are right there — warts and all.
By Chris Foster, PodiumRunner.com
It doesn’t matter if you ran the Mile in college, ran it on your high school track team, or ran it in gym class for the (much-dreaded)...
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A “blue-collar kid” who’s extremely gritty and relentlessly pursues her goals.
By Trevor Hass. Boston.com
As Heather MacLean has ascended from running rookie to collegiate athlete to All-American to Olympian, her journey has been anything but linear.
Unrelenting bouts with pneumonia in...
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Nice table outlining the historical progression of concepts like interval training, periodization and polarized training; and some sample training weeks from champion athletes
Alex Hutchinson, Outside
I won’t pretend to be impartial here: I love the Mile. It demands the legs of a sprinter,...
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“I have a million and one reasons to be grateful to Jenny Simpson.”
By Erin Strout, PodiumRunner.com
The last time Jenny Simpson watched the Olympics on television, it was 2004. Deena Kastor won a bronze medal in the Marathon and Simpson was a 17-year-old high school kid in Florida, unaware...
Read More commentsReturn the Mile to prominence on the American & worldwide sports and cultural landscape by elevating and celebrating the Mile to create a movement.
ELEVATE
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.
CELEBRATE
Bring Back the Mile to celebrate the storied distance and to recognize the people who made and make the Mile great and to promote Mile events and the next generation of U.S. Milers.
NATIONAL MOVEMENT
Bring Back the Mile to create a national movement for the Mile as America’s Distance, to inspire Americans to run the Mile as part of their fitness program and to replace the 1600 meters at High School State Track & Field Meets across the country.
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