Sentences with phrase «track your running miles»

Not exact matches

Apple also made a big deal over two new fitness apps — one for tracking my movements everyday, the other for tracking specific activities like a 5 - mile run — but I wasn't able to test those out.

The tracks ran parallel to each other, about two miles apart.

That run will take place on a two - mile track in Nevada, but with full braking mechanisms and no sand needed to bring it to a stop.

One of the competing firms, Hyperloop Technologies, estimates the price of a track to run up to a mind - numbing $ 20 million per mile.

The reason I wasn't home is that my daughter ran well in a mile relay, so we were out of town for her track meet.

This was the workout portion only of the track workout — I didn't actually run that pace for 4.8 straight miles!

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.»

In the Big Eight meet in Kansas City, JIM RYUN, the 18 - year - old freshman from Kansas, ran the first sub-four-minute mile in the U.S. this season — a 3:59.6, the fastest ever on a 12 - lap track.

He ran the NE - 10's five - mile course in 24:33.0, then led the River Hawks to the regional crown with a 30:30.6 over the 10K track.

This occurred as many drivers were making green - flag pit stops, which jumbled the running order after Edwards» accident and prompted NASCAR to have the field continue circling the half - mile track until the proper lineup could be determined.

TRACK & FIELD — At a meet in New York City, SERGEI BUBKA of the Soviet Union set a world indoor best of 19» 6 1/4» in the pole vault, topping his own week - old mark by half an inch; MARITA KOCH of East Germany ran a world indoor best of 22.89 seconds in the 220; and JIM HEIRING bettered his own world indoor best in the two - mile walk with a 12:05.94.

Problem with Welbeck is he either has decided to try to do everything or been told to track back, so instead of being near the last man ready to make a run he is miles away and the advantages of his speed and size are lost.

12 5 - mile run, Catalina Island, Calif. 18, 19 U.S.A. - U.S.S.R. dual meet, track & field, Philadelphia.

# 20 Jim Beatty CHARLOTTE Track standout at North Carolina set U.S. record with 3:58.9 mile in 1960; first person to run sub-four-minute indoor mile.

Three years removed from a stellar short - track career running 30 - mile, dirt - oval sprints, Bowyer has exhibited a veteran's car - control skills and is one of only three drivers in the top 12 to have finished all 18 races this season.

This mixture has been used for some of the finest tracks in the world: the one at Oxford on which Roger Bannister ran the first four - minute mile, the 1956 Olympic track at Melbourne, the Dublin track where Herb Elliott ran his world record mile in 1958, and even the track which the Sheik of Kuwait built for his university on the Persian Gulf (no records are likely to be set there, however, because of the tendency of the temperature to climb up to the neighborhood of 140 °).

He works tointroduce children to skating in his native Chicago, where as a boy he waswoken by his mother, Cherie, most mornings to run a mile on a track close totheir home.

That this is the 100th running of the Indianapolis 500 and qualifying consists of drivers taking four timed laps around the 2.5 - mile track, which underscores just how minuscule the difference was: less than four - hundredths of a second over 10 miles.

American track fans got disappointing news when Britain's Brian Hewson, one of five who have run the mile in less than four minutes, regretfully notified the AAU that he won't be able to compete in the U.S. next month because of a strained leg muscle, though he may possibly arrive for the wind - up of the indoor season in March.

The barber also threw in the fact that Mike Peterson ran a respectable, if not mind - blowing, 440 in track (51.8) and had been a member of Yates Center High School's record - breaking one - mile relay team.

We felt like we struggled on the mile - and - a-half tracks most of the time last year because we were a little off on downforce and we know the Roush Fords run well on those tracks.»

In high school Jackson did things like twist his ankle while winning the state title in the triple jump (48» 8 1/4») and then come back the same day to set a state record (9.54) in the 100 - yard dash; like throw a discus 149 feet without spinning his body, because he'd never been taught the proper form; like win the state decathlon crown his junior and senior years without running the mile, the final event, because «distance is the only thing I hate about track.»

But three fences from home on the two - mile track, the big gray seems to run out of steam.

This means that the horses must run nearly a 16th of a mile on the chute before the course runs into the main track.

He works out on the track every morning, doing a 440, an 880 and a two - mile in half an hour, and three days a week concludes the practice session with a three - mile run.

TRACK & FIELD Dave Stephens, promising Aussie, surprised touring Hungarian record breakers Laszlo Tabori and Sandor Iharos, took 5,000 - meter run in good 14:07.2 at Melbourne three days after slender Iharos outran Tabori by inches to win 2 - mile race in 8:47.4 for new Australian record.

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.

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.

Liquori was joined in meet - record performances by KERRY PEARCE, who ran the two - mile in 8:36.4; Atoms Track Club's CHERYL TOUSSAINT.

«I was really upset about that for a while but it is just motivation to keep working hard,» said LaRocco, who hopes to run 4:55 for the mile and 10:30 for the two - mile this track season.

Jimmie Johnson ran a nearly flawless race on Sunday at Martinsville Speedway, deftly avoiding accidents during three hours of bumper - car - style racing at NASCAR's shortest track -LRB-.526 mile) and generally reminding everyone in the Cup garage that he's the best stock car driver of his generation.

We have only had six weeks so far, so if we equate this challenge to a 38 lap race (9.5 miles on a running track), then we have only completed 1.5 miles so far.

The 165,000 - square - foot community center includes a health and fitness center, four - pool indoor aquatic complex, gym with three basketball courts, 1 / 8 - mile walking / running track, early childhood programs, mini-gym, banquet facility and Glenview Senior Center.

At last week's regular session, an issue was whether the legislature should specifically authorize the retention of 1.1 miles of railroad track between the end of Catskill Mountain Railroad's Kingston - to - West Hurley run and scenic overviews of the Ashokan Reservoir at the Glenford dike.

The politico had no problems on the track, avoiding an accident as he participated in the «standard race,» a 14 - lap run around a quarter - mile track, equaling out to a full 3 1/2 miles of fast — if you choose — riding action.

Buses don't require massive capital commitments for installing miles of tracks and the development of special rolling stock to run on them.

The third track, first discussed 68 years ago, is expected to allow the LIRR to run more trains in both directions, increasing capacity on a 9.8 - mile rail stretch between Floral Park and Hicksville used by 40 percent of LIRR passengers.

Although Acela did reach 168 miles per hour in a test run, its operating speed is largely limited by the existing tracks, despite a major overhaul between New Haven and Boston that included complete electrification and the replacement of many bridges.

The progress is quite good, I used to run around 8:20 MAF pace when started and now run 6:55 mile pace at my MAF effort on the track.

Testing daily (by using a GPS watch every run and tracking your mile splits) is useful, but doesn't tell you that much about your aerobic development on a day - to day.

All of my friends joined the track team and I couldn't even run a mile.

That's running all day — 400 laps around a regulation track — at seven - minute per mile pace.

To improve your two - mile run time, you can incorporate sprint work, interval training, or run «Ladders» at a 400 - meter track.

Back in 7th grade i started running on the track and cross country team and ran a 5:45 minute mile but highschool hit and i gained weight (causing me to slow down).

Whether you're aiming to eat better, run more miles, or just be more active in general, you can track your progress with apps like Habit List, Human, and Breeze.

As a former cross country runner + track girl, you'd think I'd be all about it — but really, I think countless days running endless miles at the crack o» dawn in the pouring rain, in the freezing cold, in lightning storms (seriously, my coach is going to have to answer to that one day)... really, it just scarred me forevermore.

I did 100 - mile cycling trips, ran track, played tennis, golf, and even basketball.

Zamperini, as played by the solid Jack O'Connell (watch for him in next year's gruelingly tense «' 71»), is a likably scrappy kid who, thanks to the care and discipline of his older brother Pete, uses the speed he has utilized in the past to avoid the law and focuses it on running the mile in track.

32 Vigorous exercise can lead to academic gains; many kids drinking alcohol by sixth grade, study shows; students read about bays and keep track of miles as they run across America.»