Sentences with phrase «road running track»

Then, past the Iffley Road Running Track, made famous by Sir Roger Bannister breaking the 4 - minute mile in 1954, then over the impressive Magdalen Bridge, towards the city centre.

Not exact matches

I used to run track workouts all the time but then I realized I enjoyed doing them more along a regular road and as part of an actual run.

On Saturday 20th July 2013 Oxford University Cross Country Club helped host this high profile athletics meeting at Oxford University Sport's Iffley Road track, which culminated in not one, but two, sub-4 minute miles being ran!

An account of the day Roger Bannister broke the four minute mile: «There was ham salad for lunch, a shower of rain at 5.15 pm, a gusting wind, a false start, and then history... It is 60 years today since that iconic moment on the crunchy, uneven, gravel track at Iffley Road, Oxford... Bannister was 25, a medical student, and he was running in the annual Amateur Athletic Association v Oxford University Athletic Club match.»

Hosted by the Daytona International Speedway, there have been Ferrari Challenge races, historic endurance and F1 machine demo runs, more modern F1 Clienti cars taking to the track and a load of road cars on display.

The limited - run hypercar is due to hit the roads in 2019, with 150 examples being built for the road and a further 25 specifically for track use.

We are on Iffley Road, right next to the famous Sir Roger Bannister Running Track, only a short walk from the city centre and with parking available for members visiting our facilities.

Yale has coached her athletes in adverse and often difficult conditions including running in the halls, in the gym, on roads, and on a dirt track up until last year.

The most common types of athletics competitions are track and field, road running, cross country running, and race walking.

On 6th May 1954, Roger Bannister, a young medical student, achieved the unthinkable when he ran the first ever sub-four-minute mile at the University's running track on Iffley Road.

Arsenal travel to Bloomfield road looking to end their run of draws and get their campaign back on track, but Blackpool will be no pushovers as they look to climb to safety.

«It will start on the road and end on the track, so I will wear racing shoes rather than spikes, and we won't be running in lanes.

Wendy Sly MBE, MD of Great Run Publishing After leaving Loughborough University with a degree in English literature, Wendy lived life as an international athlete, racing on the roads in the States and track in Europe.

Fresh from running his last track race in the UK in Birmingham on Sunday, when he won the 3000m in 7:38.64, Farah takes to the track for the very last time before he turns his attention to road racing.

The USA Track & Field / Road Running Technical Council Certified course winds through the picturesque Century Park Arboretum.

The 100,000 - square - foot center, just inside the entrance to Prairie Stone Business Park off Higgins Road west of Illinois Highway 59, will have three full - size basketball courts, three indoor tennis courts, a lap pool, an activity pool, an indoor running track and 150 pieces of aerobic and weight equipment.

The facility at Springinsguth and Bode Roads also will house an expanded fitness center and running track.

The French approach — effectively building a toll road and then putting track on top of it — has merit «otherwise we will run into trouble with parliament over costs», Chapman said.

State Sen. Jack Martins on Thursday, May 19, 2016, meets with local officials representing communities through which a planned third track on the Long Island Rail Road's Main Line would run.

given the strong words and actions, it is quite a wonder that the deal isn't done... recently we see that the county is still piling on discovered shortcomings of the RR: what is presented as a disappointing amount of track that has been repaired... So, here's the picture: if the lease runs to completion, it is almost certain the county will be compelled to reissue the lease... with the kind of effort and investment that has been expended, ie, build a rail road!

A Long Island Rail Road train running late crashed at Brooklyn's Atlantic Terminal and came off the tracks during the Wednesday morning rush hour, injuring 103 people — some of whom were thrown from their seats, officials and witnesses said.

Residents of the Town of Olive are up in arms about Rail Explorers, the company whose contract with Ulster County will allow them to run tours of rail bikes down the Ulster & Delaware tracks alongside 39 homes on Cold Brook Road, near Boiceville, beginning in August or September.

This includes running tracks above or below roadways to avoid railroad crossings and fencing off areas to avoid collisions with animals, people and road vehicles.

The comments send me back to night runs when I felt like I needed to head home early and get off the road, to stories from my friend, a track runner, who had to stop jogging in her old neighborhood because she didn't feel safe doing so, even in the middle of the day.

Running is rarely a controlled environment - every step represents an opportunity for the unexpected to happen, and if a runner is not a complete athlete, he or she increases the opportunity for injury every time he or she hits the trail, track, or road.

Includes road, track, trail races, stage races and multiday runs.

For the six - minute spot accompanying the title track from its new EP The Spoils, filmmaker John Hillcoat (The Road, Lawless) spends the entire running time focused on the expressionless...

If beating advance ticket sales for previous buzzed - about superhero films are like flipping over cars during a late - night road chase sequence in a movie trailer, then Black Panther is like... Black Panther, leaping ahead of those vehicles while a Run The Jewels track plays behind it.

For the six - minute spot accompanying the title track from its new EP The Spoils, filmmaker John Hillcoat (The Road, Lawless) spends the entire running time focused on the expressionless countenance of Cate Blanchett.

Your pueblo - sized check buys you a 204 - mph, runs - on - pump - gas, Deutschland - über - alles track star, but it also buys you a docile, civilized road machine.

America's unpaved roads run the gamut from interstate - smooth gravel paths to bony, boulder - strewn two - tracks that are difficult to walk on.

Built by motorsports - lovers John Morris and Brad Rambo, the track Koenigsegg used as its base camp during its on - road record runs was founded in 2004.

You have to brake hard because the exit from Coram is fast, then you dive smartly across the track to the right, aiming across the road to run along the kerb on the right.

In this month's cover story, Back on Track: Leyland - Thomas No 1, David Burgess-Wise tells the story of Parry Thomas's first Leyland Eight racer, destroyed in a war - time air raid, and the recent re-creation built around a collection of original parts / Steve Welsh reports from this year's Goodwood Revival, the world's biggest historic motor racing event, with highlights including an all - Ferrari Lavant Cup and a tribute to Bruce McLaren / Inspired by a 1956 Motor Sport article, Justin Marozzi takes his Bristol 405 on a 1000 - mile round trip to the Lake District in his article Filton Fashion / We bring together another group of unrestored cars and lead them on a scenic tour round Rutland, Britain's smallest county, for The Oily Rag Run / In Woodrow: Stockport's sporting cyclecar, John Warburton samples the sole surviving example of this unusual light car built by a hat manufacturer in the north of England / Jörg Sierks visits two world - class concours for An Elegant Weekend, held on opposite sides of the English Channel / Edwardians to Ostend — Stefan Marjoram took his sketchbook and camera on an exciting Continental road trip and shares his experiences / In this month's Back on the Road, Michael Ware visits a 1921 Morris Oxford Sproad trip and shares his experiences / In this month's Back on the Road, Michael Ware visits a 1921 Morris Oxford SpRoad, Michael Ware visits a 1921 Morris Oxford Sports

Cycle into Sport or Track modes by pressing the ESC button on the steering wheel, and the traction control is slightly more permissive and allows the engine to run free enough to get the wheels spinning just faster than road speed in a straight line but not fizzing out of control.

This means that driving the Wraith around local roads is like running the Amtrak Coast Starlight on a Thomas the Tank Engine train track.

You do it early because the track soon opens out so generously to the left where you can let the car run wide and use the available road, which incidentally also falls away.

The electric running gives it a USP that few other cars in this bracket can boast and on - road performance and composure is staggering, to the extent you really need a track to make the most of it.

While setting lap times in a road car for a magazine story, or when running around on a track day, I'm always acutely aware of the consequences of having an off.

Traffic is traffic in a car or bike so that aspect definitely carries over to the road - and yes, a race track with 23 other cars, many of whom are out explicitly to run you off the road, is just as if not more complicated than real life traffic.

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Fellows and Gavin Eclipse Track Record in Fast Qualifying Session ELKHART LAKE, Wis. — Ron Fellows and Oliver Gavin both ran quicker than the GT1 track qualifying record in their Compuware Corvette C6.Rs today at Road America, but they weren't quite quick enough to take the pole for Sunday's GeneracTrack Record in Fast Qualifying Session ELKHART LAKE, Wis. — Ron Fellows and Oliver Gavin both ran quicker than the GT1 track qualifying record in their Compuware Corvette C6.Rs today at Road America, but they weren't quite quick enough to take the pole for Sunday's Generactrack qualifying record in their Compuware Corvette C6.Rs today at Road America, but they weren't quite quick enough to take the pole for Sunday's Generac 500.

Race car technology As with its coupe sibling, race car technology runs right through the DNA of the V12 Vantage S Roadster with, for instance, CNC machined combustion chambers and hollow camshafts just two examples of track technology feeding through to the road.

You can take the Corvette C6RS on a 300 - mile road trip, or drive it to a track day and run fast laps.»

«Now that Corvette Racing has put another 24 Hours of Le Mans in the history book, the team's next challenge is to run five races in nine weeks on a wide variety of tracks,» said GM Road Racing Group manager Steve Wesoloski.

TOMMY MILNER, NO. 4 CHEVROLET CORVETTE C7.R: «I'm really enjoying this run of tracks — Le Mans, Watkins Glen, Canadian Tire Motorsport Park and now Road America.

Running through a pair of dual resonators instead of mufflers, the tailpipes contain electronically controlled cut - out valves that open under full - throttle releasing one of the most glorious exhaust notes on the road and track today.

Classic Wisconsin Circuit Is Corvette's Proving Ground and Ancestral Home Road America 2011: Corvette Bridge returns ELKHART LAKE, Wis. — The long and winding road to the American Le Mans Series championship runs through Road America, a track that is revered and respected by generations of sports car racRoad America 2011: Corvette Bridge returns ELKHART LAKE, Wis. — The long and winding road to the American Le Mans Series championship runs through Road America, a track that is revered and respected by generations of sports car racroad to the American Le Mans Series championship runs through Road America, a track that is revered and respected by generations of sports car racRoad America, a track that is revered and respected by generations of sports car racers.

Friday and Saturday on - track sessions were run in warm and dry conditions, but the weather is known to change quickly this time of year in the Northwest Connecticut region that is home to the 1.5 - mile Lime Rock Park road course.

It was originally designed to run the 1,000 - mile Italian road race, the Mille Miglia, and while it no longer competes on the track, it is a strong contender on the show car circuit.