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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
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.
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 ›
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 ›
In past years covering the Millrose Games at the Armory, I juggled stopwatches to time multiple training groups’ post-meet workouts. At this year’s 114th running of the games, back after last year’s pandemic related cancellation, I wondered whether there would… Read More ›
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 ›
This, in our 4th year of covering post-Millrose Games workouts, was different. We had always covered the athletes in Alberto Salazar’s Nike Oregon Project group as they ran their post-meet workouts. But the group was dissolved by Nike after the… Read More ›