Josh Kerr is one of the best runners in the world. Last month, he ran a mile in 3 minutes and 42.66 seconds, breaking a world ...

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 ...

Widely used age-adjusted benchmarks show what counts as an excellent, good or average mile at every stage of adult life.

In a world filled with high-intensity workouts and complex fitness trends, the simple act of walking often gets overlooked. We're told we need to run a marathon or lift heavy weights to see a real ...

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, ...

Want to jump-start your fitness, improve your running form, snap out of feeling stale? Start training for the mile. Rob Delong was like most kids growing up when it came to running. Every year in gym ...

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 ...

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 ...

You can do a lot of things in six minutes. Drink a beer. Pick out an outfit for date night. And—if you train smart—finish an honest-to-God road race. Perhaps you are more familiar with the usual menu ...

In 2001, Alan Webb was a senior at South Lakes High School in Reston, Virginia. He was also a distance runner who'd been winning races and breaking records since his freshman year. On May 27th, at a ...