Faith Kipyegon ran a mile in 4 minutes, 6.42 seconds — more than a second faster than her world record — at “Breaking4,” a special event billed as Kipyegon’s attempt to become the first woman to run a ...

Josh Kerr broke the mile world record earlier this year. Illustration: Dan Goldfarb / The Athletic; Harry Murphy / Getty Images Peak newsletter 🧠 | This is an excerpt from The Athletic’s weekly ...

Think back to your elementary school days and the first race you probably ever ran: the gym-class mile. If you ran track competitively in high school or college, you might have raced the mile; a fast, ...

Learn precisely how many feet are in a mile and more fun facts. You probably learned how many feet are in a mile sometime in school. But, like the difference between an isosceles and a trapezoid and ...

1. A 10-mile race is the best predictor of your fitness level, because you run the race at lactate threshold pace (the speed above which lactate begins to pile up in your blood). Compared to maximal ...

Setting healthy goals, like walking a mile a day, can help to increase your fitness level and keep you moving. And that can also serve as a foundation for bigger fitness gains in the future! Walking a ...

Whenever I return to running after a long break, I have a special trick that helps me to get me back on track with ease: running a mile a day. No matter how long it takes you to complete your mile, it ...

This article contains major spoilers for Mile 22. We all make mistakes. And while sometimes that means leaving the refrigerator door open, for the likes of Mark Wahlberg’s Jimmy Silva, a brilliant ...