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Episode 114: 2025 Millrose Games
The 2025 Millrose Games was one for the record books, literally, as three World Records were set, including Yared Nuguse’s 3:46 in the marquee Wanamaker Mile (a record made to be broken, given Jakob Ingebrigtsen’s subsequent 3:45). In Episode 114… Read More ›
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2025 Millrose Games – Star power
In one of the early events at the 2025 Millrose Games, a herd of middle school 800 meter runners thundered around the first turn, starting way too fast. The cascading footfalls evoked the stampede over an open field at the… Read More ›
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Episode 113: 2024 Millrose Games
In our latest episode Brenn and Siobhan share impressions of the latest jaw-dropping performances at the Millrose Games. In this Olympic year, Josh Kerr and Elle St. Pierre showed particular star power. As the hosts approach milestone birthdays, goal setting… Read More ›
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Episode 112: 2023 Millrose Games
This year we offer a fresh look at the Millrose Games as journalist Siobhan Crise shares funny and profound observations and a race-ready takeaway from her first time at the event.
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Fantastic finishes at 115th Millrose Games
In the 1980s Alcoa ran commercials near the end of NFL games showcasing “fantastic finishes” of prior events that came down to the wire. They were great commercials because the thrilling endings were the exception, not the rule. Even the… Read More ›
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Episode 111: NYC Marathon & Sandy Hook Promise
We return to the virtual studio to chat with Siobhan Crise, who is running her third NYC Marathon for Sandy Hook Promise. We discuss the organization’s important work, and Siobhan shares a fresh tip for the 50,000+ hearty souls lacing… Read More ›
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Episode 110: 2022 Millrose Games
The Millrose Games featured its trademark thrilling distance races, and we’ve got audio clips from the Elle Purrier St. Pierre, Geordie Beamish, Josh Kerr, Alicia Monson, and other protagonists who took it out hard and closed with a vengeance. Coach… Read More ›
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Purrier St. Pierre repeats as Wanamaker Mile champ at 2022 Millrose Games
A blizzard couldn’t keep runners and track-starved fans from storming the Armory in upper Manhattan for the 114th Millrose Games, a year after the arena staged vaccinations rather than this annual ode to speed. It was worth the wait and… Read More ›
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Episode 109: Fraud Street Run; Junk Miles podcasters Chip and Jeff
Junk Miles podcast hosts Chip Chantry and Jeff Lyons describe how they used a most unlikely event in Philadelphia to mobilize runners, raising tens of thousands of dollars for a local food bank. Gregg describes embodying Rudy Giuliani at the… Read More ›