Sentences with phrase «mile races starting»
Watched by Roger Bannister and Mo Farah, over 5000 runners took part in a series of mile races starting at The Mall and finishing outside Buckingham Palace on Saturday.
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It started off as a magical race but I lost my wheels around mile 22 and fought so hard to finish.
«I think once the playoffs started last year you really saw where the cars were and the increase in performance, especially on the 1.5 mile race tracks,» Harvick said.
He won because a trainer who had a broken right leg and a 1 - for - 32record in starts at his home track in New Mexico this season loaded him into ahorse van and drove him 1,466 miles leftfooted to race the blue bloods in theirbackyard.
But teams will now have to start the race on the set of tires they qualified on, and only have an additional 12 sets to utilize throughout the 500 - mile event divided up into stages consisting of 85 -, 85 - and 155 - lap increments.
Three days later, in the second of Thursday's 125 - mile races for grid positions three through 30 in the 500, Yarborough finished third and so earned starting spot No. 8, but it got all quiet for two other drivers, Rusty Wallace and Bruce Jacobi.
The 2012 edition of the race starts on The Mall and requires competitors to complete a loop of 2.2 miles, taking them to the River Thames, Houses of Parliament, and back up past Buckingham Palace.
Like the F1 race, the IndyCar event will feature a standing start but the course will be slightly different than the one used by Ferrari, McLaren and their contemporaries as the new circuit will be extended to 2.434 miles and have several alterations to enhance the racing product.
In addition, having led from start to finish in the 100 - milers at Milwaukee and Langhorne, and for all 300 miles at Atlanta, Andretti has now run in front for 500 consecutive miles of championship races.
Mears and Germain went to Daytona without a guaranteed starting position in the 500 last year, but two blown engines, one in the 150 - mile qualifying race, knocked them out.
There's no equality when you've had a 10 mile start in a 100 mile race and you driving a Mustang and I'm driving a Pinto.»
Waiting motorcyclists prepare for start of 100 - mile race in which Chuck Minert finished first at Catalina Grand Prix.
¬ ∂ Bedraggled spectatorsshuffled along, carrying racing programs from the 140th Belmont Stakes, inwhich history was supposed to be made but instead was simply reinforced.Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner Big Brown had gone to the starting gate asthe shortest - priced favorite (1 — 4) since Spectacular Bid was 1 — 5 in 1979 andhad finished dead last in a field of nine, eased to an exhausted jog by jockeyKent Desormeaux with more than a quarter mile left in the 1 1/2 - mile race.
When the top two centers on your depth chart are both generational talents, you start the 100 - mile race of the playoffs something like 20 miles ahead.
Every member of every club in the United States has the exact longitude and latitude of his loft plotted by an aerial survey company, and the distances from the loft to the various starting points of a race course are measured to the nearest hundredth of a mile.
The two - mile race, at 7 p.m. on July 3 at the 153rd Street Metra Station, features a flat, chip - timed route through Centennial Park, but there's also a one - mile walk and a Kids» Run starting at 7:30 p.m.
The day will start off with a 5k / 10k race and 1 mile Family Walk followed by a Family Fun Day to celebrate this amazing community!
The 10 - mile race kicks off at 8 a.m., and travels up to Mosholu Parkway and back down to the starting point.
And last weekend I competed in the relay race through New Hampshire known as Reach the Beach, a 200 - plus - mile road race starting in the New Hampshire mountains, spreading out through the beautiful countryside, and eventually finishing at Hampton Beach.
I'd say a start is to do the 200s at a 400 race pace, 400s at an 800 pace, the 800s at a mile race pace, and the mile at a 5k race pace.
This Saturday I ran in the Rock & Roll Half Marathon & about 6 miles into the race my knee started giving me problems (aka I felt it pop).
I convinced my boyfriend to run a 5 mile road race with me three months after we started dating.
In running a marathon, you'd be silly to start the race already worrying about the last mile — because you've got a whoooooole heckuvah lotta miles to get through before tackling the final sprint.
Summer's not yet over and Hollywood's annual awards race has already started — though you may have to hop a plane and travel several thousand miles to notice.
The Billion Mile Race online platform provides free tools and resources to help your school get started, and when you share miles toward the national goal your school will earn eligibility for awesome grants and prizes.
If you absorb the messaging Ford created for this truck — just take a look at it competing in and completing the Baja 1000 and then driving hundreds of miles back to home base — you might start to imagine the production truck at your local Ford dealership is a purpose - built, knobby - tire monster with enough suspension travel to mimic Baja's more hardcore race trucks.
The GT - R was more than a full second slower hitting 60 mph (4.5 seconds) and a second slower hitting the quarter - mile (12.3 seconds at 120.3 mph) without the race - start feature.
Lapping the Circuit of the Americas (COTA), the 3.4 - mile racing circuit outside Austin that has hosted three Formula 1 races and is America's only F1 track, is a fitting start to a farewell voyage for such a peculiar performance car.
In Race mode, with the correct series of pulls on the column - mounted shift paddles, Race Start will propel you from 0 - 100 km / h in a claimed 3.8 seconds (we achieved 4.23 seconds on an unprepared surface), while the 1/4 mile is devoured in 12.74 seconds.
O'Connell and Magnussen Clinch GT1 Drivers Championship with Eighth Win in 2008 BRASELTON, Ga. — A race that began with Johnny O'Connell's daughter singing the national anthem on the starting grid at Road Atlanta ended 9 hours and 41 minutes later with a victory in the 1,000 - mile Petit Le Mans for O'Connell and his teammates Jan Magnussen and Ron Fellows.
The 10 - hour / 1, 000 - mile race will start at 11:15 a.m. ET on Saturday, October 2.
«We didn't want to put any more miles on these tires than we had to because we'll start the race on them,» O'Connell explained.
IRVINE, Calif., May 1, 2018 — Kia Motors America (KMA) today announced that the company will act as the Official Vehicle provider of the 35th Annual «One Lap of America» race, which starts Saturday, May 5, in South Bend, Indiana, and travels 3,716 miles across 12 states before returning to South Bend on Saturday, May 12.
Kia Motors America (KMA) today announced that the company will act as the Official Vehicle provider of the 35th Annual «One Lap of America» race, which starts Saturday, May 5, in South Bend, Indiana, and travels 3,716 miles across 12 states before returning to South Bend on Saturday, May 12.
The Corvette Racing factory driver has started the defence of his ALMS GT Drivers» title in a fast fashion, consistently being amongst the fastest drivers on the track in all of the test and practice sessions held to date at the 3.74 mile track in central Florida.
It started easily, ran fine with only a few miles of break - in and was a quick accelerator in the Interstate chariot races.
The 1,000 - mile / 10 - hour race is scheduled to start at 11:15 a.m. EDT on Saturday, October 4.
It was created in 1927 as a mass start race beginning and ending in Brescia, over a route leading down to Rome and then back up the Italian peninsula that totalled 1,600 kilometres or 1,000 imperial miles («mille miglia»).
PAHRUMP, Nev. — For 50 years, the Camaro and the quarter - mile have stuck together like a drag slick on a well - prepped starting line, and Chevrolet is pushing that winning legacy forward with the new Camaro SS Drag Race Development Program and the 2017 COPO Camaro.
The one - hour, 55 - minute race began under caution with a single - file start on the 1.8 - mile street circuit alongside Tampa Bay.
Garcia started fifth but was bottled up at the start as the field raced two - wide around the narrow 2.25 - mile, 13 - turn circuit.
BRASELTON, Ga. — A race that began with Johnny O'Connell's daughter singing the national anthem on the starting grid at Road Atlanta ended 9 hours and 41 minutes later with a victory in the 1,000 - mile Petit Le Mans for O'Connell and his teammates Jan Magnussen and Ron Fellows.
Magnussen started on the GT1 pole and with Gavin close behind both drivers had to content with heavy traffic and debris along the 1.968 - mile temporary race circuit.
Volkswagen notes that the GTI can rocket from a standing start to 60 miles per hour in just 6.8 seconds, but notes, too, that the car is rated at 23 miles per gallon in town and 32 on the highway with the manual transmission and at 25 and 31, respectively, with the Direct Shift Gearbox, which can be left in a fully automatic mode or can be manually manipulated by racing - style paddle shifters mounted on the steering wheel.
The 1,000 - mile / 10 - hour Petit Le Mans endurance race is scheduled to start at 11:15 a.m. EDT on Saturday, October 4.
The 2.238 - mile, 11 - turn track on the Monterey Peninsula is an apt place for Udell to make his first major GT3 - spec endurance race start.
The 1,000 - mile / 10 - hour race will start at 11:15 a.m. ET on Saturday, October 2.
LEXINGTON, Ohio — Final starting lineup for Sunday's SCCA Pro Racing SPEED World Challenge Touring Car Championship race at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, Presented by Trenton Forging, with position, car number in parenthesis, driver, hometown, car, fastest lap time and speed in miles per hour.
LEXINGTON, Ohio — Final starting lineup for Sunday's SCCA Pro Racing SPEED World Challenge GT Championship race at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, Presented by Trenton Forging, with position, car number in parenthesis, driver, hometown, car, fastest lap time and speed in miles per hour.
When I started the training programme three months before the race running 13.1 miles seemed impossible and balancing the training with travel was often a challenge.