When Gunder Hagg ran 4:01.4 to set a mile world record in 1945, his achievement stood for 3,215 days - almost nine years. Then Roger Bannister ran his historic 3:59.4 on May 6, 1954. Bannister's record lasted just 46 days before John Landy took
Welcome to the first ever interactive Runner's World Mile Challenge.Relive the glory days of British middle-distance running. Find your limits over an exacting distance. Boost your speed and endurance.Give us eight weeks of your time, and we
UAN: 170 Article type:-->The mile repetition (or 1600m – four laps of an athletics track) is a simple, but favourite, standard distance that focuses more on strength than speed. Below the basic table, there are some different mile sessions
a show of support for Dave, and partly to raise money for Cancer Research UK through the fundraising website JustGiving.com.So as Dave prepared for surgery and Liz prepared for the longest evening of her life, forum members ran 200 Miles for 200
Congratulate a loved one after months of dedicated marathon training - or just treat yourself after making it across the 26.2-mile finish line. We've compiled the best selection of gifts to help commemorate the day, boost recovery and pamper tired
before. It’s a long-time favourite of snake-oil coaches with credentials from Charlatan University. Of course, real runners know that to become faster you have to log more miles and run intervals until your rear end is dragging on the track behind you
in the times when you have no race goals. The five-minute repetitions are lengthy enough to sharpen your speed over long distances, but sufficiently pacy to give you powerful acceleration in the final mile of a 5K. The 90-minute run will provide a quality
. An upstart named Jason Saeger beat Armstrong by more than two minutes in the mid-event 12-mile mountain-bike leg, but Saeger paid for his audacity. Armstrong comfortably beat him on the concluding three-mile cross-country race, running the fastest leg
