Knightdale NC boys lead lots of great action that occurred this weekend!  Keep checking back through tomorrow for more great coverage from around the US! (Photo by Jeff Sides)

Bethanie Brown ran an impressive 10:13.90 solo 3200m to set the Maine All-Time record in the event.  Distance runners around the country, watch out for this Mainer!

In 2011, the United States won its sixth straight IAAF World Youth Championships in Lille, France. The 2013 WYC are just months away in Donetsk, Ukraine. The U.S. team will be selected. June 25-26 at the USATF National Youth Championships in Edwardsville, Il.  

Leroy Burrell recalls that it was a beautiful day, warm and crisp and clear. He found a ball field on which to warm up, and a picnic table on which to stretch. He entered Downing Stadium, absorbing... (via adidasgrandprix.tumblr.com)

Malone moved up well in the 1500m with a NJ record of 3:46.97! Amazing performances highlights the weekend from all over the country.  Check it all out here!

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Tatum Taylor is on a roll outdoors, running 10.26 for 100m and 20.78 for 200m in the same meet!

In 2011, the United States won its sixth straight IAAF World Youth Championships in Lille, France. The 2013 WYC are just months away in Donetsk, Ukraine. The U.S. team will be selected. June 25-26 at the USATF National Youth Championships in Edwardsville, Il.

With the end of the outdoor season approaching and a lot of track and field competition behind us, take a look at where you stand in the MileSplit database.  Click through on an event below and play around with the database a little bit, you will get hooked!

With the end of the outdoor season approaching and a lot of track and field competition behind us, take a look at where you stand in the MileSplit database.  Click through on an event below and play around with the database a little bit, you will get hooked!

Todd Grasley caught up with Tyson Gay and Nickel Ashmeade during a recent workout at the National Training Center in Clermont. The two talk about their recent success at the Jamaica Invitational, training, upcoming trip to New York City, and their goals for 2013.

The running community has really rallied together after the events of April 15th. The MSTCA has donated $5000 for the One Fund, and then raised another $5000 at the recent State Relay Championships. It's an amazing outpouring of support by our Association and the Track and Field community throughout the state.

Alexa has run 2:08.92 for 800m and 4:19.54 for 1500m, but she is looking for more, MUCH more! (Photo by Patrick Holleran with Shannon Digital Imaging)

NEW YORK CITY (May 7, 2013)—More than two dozen of the top high school athletes in the country—including nine athletes ranked #1 in the United States—are now set for the Dream 100 and Dream Mile at the adidas Grand Prix on May 25, adidas and race organizers announced today.

Adidas Grand Prix has begun extending invitations to the Dream 100 and Dream Mile in New York on May 25th, 2013.

Mary Cain 2:01.68 Junior Class Record!! Brown all-time Maine mark in 3200m! Rutt, Andrews 1-2, Latavia Thomas wins W 800.  Bromell 10.45 at FL 3A state!

David Rudisha crushed his personal best in the 400m dash with a 45.15 clocking in Nairobi, Kenya on May 3rd. 

(Photo by Image of Sport)  In 2011, the United States won its sixth straight IAAF World Youth Championships in Lille, France. The 2013 WYC are just months away in Donetsk, Ukraine. The U.S. team will be selected. June 25-26 at the USATF National Youth Championships in Edwardsville, Il.

(via Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

Photo courtesy of TrackandFieldPhoto.com Most twenty-somethings who relocate to Los Angeles do it to chase a dream. They don’t envision moving into their parents’ home or being in bed before 10:00 p.m. Then again, most twenty somethings aren’t elite athletes trying to revitalize their career. For Will Leer, the decision was simple. After spending four [...] (via Daily Relay)

Elise Cranny is #3 on all-time scholastic 1500-meter list. (via Runner's World)

One would think just surviving life would be difficult enough when one is blind. It is, yet that hasn’t stopped Arizona teen Aria Ottmueller from challenging herself to do things that most fully-sighted human beings would find remarkably difficult on their own; Ottmueller qualified for the Arizona track and field state championships in the pole vault. Continue reading → (via Yahoo! Sports)

Pleasantville NJ won the COA boys 4x800 in a stellar 7:40.71, Villanova Collegiate Record 8:17.45. Amazing mile in KY with Brock Baker winning in 4:06.77. (Photo by Don Rich)

PHILADELPHIA – Perfect sunny skies graced the final day of competition at the Penn Relays Carnival.  It was also a pleasant day for Pleasantville. (Photo by Kyle Brazeil)

PHILADELPHIA – Officials of the Penn Relays Carnival couldn’t have asked for a better closing to its high school Distance Night. (Photo by Don Rich)

PHILADELPHIA – Back in 1983, Lisa Morgan and her Columbia (NJ) High teammates came painful close to a memory-keeper at the Penn Relays Carnival, placing a heartbreaking second to fellow New Jersey squad Bernard’s in the 4x800-meter relay.  (Photo by Kyle Brazeil)

PHILADELPHIA – The event that often draws the most excitement at track and field meets is the one-mile run. It should be no different this weekend (April 25-27) when some of the top prep milers from the northeast and beyond leg it out at the 119th annual Penn Relays Carnival, held at historic Franklin Field.

Elise can race, and she's got a little help in marathoner Jason Hartmann, who has every confidence in her.

Ben Saarel executed a perfect race to win the Arcadia 3200m in 8:45.74 and then the Mt. SAC mile in 4:08.55. (Photo by Image of Sport)

Advice for hard-working high schoolers on how to identify when it’s wiser to go easy (via Runner's World)

Amazing performances at Mt. SAC, with Corrin stealing the show with her 20-11 leap! Sean McGorty blasted his way to an 8:46 3200m run in VA! (Photo by Ashley Green)

MileSplit is proud to announce Athletics Gold. The site marks our ongoing march to offer the most complete source on the planet. It offers a simple and straightforward way to follow the international elite scene and latest world and regional rankings.

It's been a painful week. Everyone felt it, including four-time Boston Marathon winner Bill Rodgers. He tells Jason Gay, The beauty of the sport is always there. (via online.wsj.com)

From Hopkinton to Boston more than a half a million people line the streets the third Monday in April, beginning their holiday by cheering the never-ending stream of runners that pass by. The women of Wellesley College know their place at the halfway mark. Their youthful enthusiasm provides the runners some mental fuel to make it to Boylston Street and the finish line at Copley Square that’s still 13-miles away. The bars and restaurants are crowded with people, most glued to this storied race pictured on the flat screens. The city is buzzing. Everyone is happy in Beantown. It’s Patriots Day, the date designated for the oldest and most-fabled 26.2-mile footrace in the world, the Boston Marathon.

Sasha, Brooks PR Champ, NBNI Champ, #2 and #3 all-time marks in the 60 Hurdles.  What a start to 2013 for you!  It looks like you are off to a good start outdoors as well with a 13.55 clocking. (Photo by Image of Sport)

Editors Note: MileSplit sends our thoughts and prayers out to those suffering and affected by the tragic events that occurred today at the Boston Marathon.  The running community is 100% behind all of you.

Live: 2013 Boston Marathon Live Streaming Video (via FloTrack)

John Crossley (West Cartere) got two big wins with a great 800m clocking of 1:51.02 and a mile clocking of 4:14.84. (Photo by John Olson)

Here are some quick tips to help parents and runners find a camp that would best suit their interests, experience and abilities. 

In 2011, the United States won its sixth straight IAAF World Youth title in Lille, France. The 2013 WYC are in Donetsk, Ukraine. The U.S. team will be selected. June 25-26 at the USATF National Youth Championships in Edwardsville, Il. Photo by Image of Sport.

SALEM, Ore. – The greatest track meet on U.S. soil will return to TrackTown USA when the 2016 U.S. Olympic Team Trials – Track & Field are contested July 1-10, 2016, in Eugene, Ore.

A recent feature on former South Lakes High School (Reston, VA) distance running great Alan Webb, who is once again making a change in coaching and training, but for the first time is moving up in distance to make the 5K and possibly 10K and marathon distance in the future become his primary events. Another transition Webb has been experiencing in the past year is fatherhood. Webb last summer with his wife Julia welcomed their first child (daughter Joanie) into the world last summer during the Olympic Trials.

Devin King has emerged as one of the top pole vaulters in the nation this year.  Check out what drives this star athlete! (Photo by Angelle Albright)

Arcadia and FL Relays produced some fast times, Hurdles and Vault were impressive in Mobile.  (Photo by Image of Sport)

Holy Cross Senior Jacob Thomson & his classmate, Justin Newton build a wheelchair ramp for a fellow student at school.

2 miles are always rocking at Arcadia! (Photo by Margot Kelly)

RIO DE JANIERO - MileSplit would like to announce that we have inked one of the biggest dream contracts a major media outlet for track and field could ever hope to land.

NEW HAVEN — Staples senior Henry Wynne and Hillhouse senior Precious Holmes met for the first time on a rainy March afternoon inside the Floyd Little Athletic Center. A few courtesy exchanges took place before they found common ground. “I was cheering for you,” Holmes said. “Somebody asked me if I knew you, and I said no.”  Wynne gave a laugh.  Holmes was referring to March 10, when the two ran at the historic Armory Track and Field Center in New York at the New Balance High  School Indoor Nationals. Each won a pair of national titles; Wynne in the mile and as the anchor of the distance medley relay, Holmes in the 400 and as the third leg of the 1,600 sprint medley relay.

Syracuse senior James Southerland is the most famous athlete in his family right now, but his younger sister is the more decorated one. And she’s still in high school. Sabrina Southerland, a senior track star at Cardozo HS, was named the 2013 Girls Athlete of the Year by the Armory Track and Field Center on Thursday, the same day she took a bus from New York with her mother, Magalie, to Washington, D.C., to watch her brother play in the Sweet 16 against Indiana. (via NY Daily News)

Daven Murphree scraped the skies with a leap of 17-08.50. Aquinas 3:41, Nimitz 3:14 4x4's! (Photo by Angelle Albright)

In 2011, the United States won its sixth straight IAAF World Youth Championships in Lille, France. The 2013 WYC are just months away in Donetsk, Ukraine. The U.S. team will be selected. June 25-26 at the USATF National Youth Championships in Edwardsville, Il.

London Games 400 meter bronze medalist and 4x400 gold medalist, Dee Dee Trotter, stopped by the MileSplit Studio last Thursday to hang out. We grabbed a ten minute interview where she compares medals with Todd.

BYDGOSZCZ, Poland--In one of the most surprising performances in recent memory, Team USA, led by the sixth place finish of Ben True (Hanover, N.H.) earned a hard fought team silver medal in the senior men's 12-kilometer race at the IAAF World Cross Country Championships at Myslecinek Park.

USA men on the podium with Ethiopia and Kenya. (Photo by Michael Scott)

The "Miracle Mile" took place at the Empire Games in Vancouver, CAN on August 7, 1954.  The race put the first sub-4 miler, Roger Bannister, against the Australian John Landy who broke his record a few short months later.  Watch the video below to hear from the two men themselves and be taken back in time to enjoy footage from the epic race!

Lots of great races but 3200s are best of day, Carmen Carlos (AL) meet record 10:15.70; boys race is a burner, three under 9:10. Our team of Todd Grasley, Rob Settle, and Joe Mizereck are on-site in Tallahassee.

On Tuesday night at a home meet at Fireman's Field in Sebring, a low entry count in the girls 1600 prompted the meet management staff to decide to run both genders together. As a result, Tubbs for once had someone to race against (which has only happened once before this season at the Steinbrenner Invitational)... at least for a little bit, that is before she left the boys in her dust!

With dark skies closing in on Showalter Field in Winter Park, Andres Arroyo of Colonial decided he better run fast if he wanted to get the race in at the rain-shortened Metro Prelims. The Boys 1600 ended up being the last race of the night; Andres ran Florida's third fastest high school 1600 all-time.

Until Leo Manazano ran his way to a silver medal in London this past summer Jim Ryun was most current miler/1500m from the United State to medal, only he did it in 1968 at Mexico City. At the time he owned world records in the 800, 1500m and mile. Eventually, like Jim, track will end for all of us, but he took a moment to chat with us about what track has taught him about the real world.

Cross country season may be over, but that doesn't mean distance runners don't long for the Fall season to return! Hilarious, check it out!

Sixteen year-old Alana Hadley, who is already the fastest American girl ever for the half-marathon as both a 14 and 15 year-old, has decided to move up to the marathon and will make her debut at the distance at the Rite Aid Cleveland Marathon on Sunday, May 19. (via www.runnersweb.com)

As we await the competition season to begin outdoors, it gives us time to look back at some interesting things sprawled out across the web.  This is an interesting one, to say the least.  Proving that running is almost universal, against time and competition, compare these two videos.  One would be the first ever Foot Locker Finals, then called Kinney, held in San Diego in 1979.  Then check out the 2012 recap to see how much has changed, and how much hasn't.  Enjoy the time warp.

Levonte Whitfield beat Kendal Williams in the 100m dash, but Williams returned the favor later in the 200m. (Photo by Michael Leary)

Tim Danielson was among an exclusive group of runners who had broken the elusive four-minute barrier. Now he is a runner shackled, charged with killing his ex-wife.  (via www.nytimes.com)

In 2011, the United States won its sixth straight IAAF World Youth Championships in Lille, France. The 2013 WYC are just months away in Donetsk, Ukraine. The U.S. team will be selected. June 25-26 at the USATF National Youth Championships in Edwardsville, Il. 

MileSplit is pleased to announce it is teaming up with Tony Jones of Illinois Prepster. Jones will be joining the team of Todd Grasley and David Everett. He will post regularly with insightful commentary and blogs, along with weekly on-site coverage at major meets within the state.

Cedric Walker, the popular coach from Rochester,NY,  passed away yesterday at the age of 49 after suffering a massive heart attack at his home. Walker, a member of the Board of Directors of the National Scholastic Athletics Foundation(NSAF)   had spent the weekend at NY's Armory watching the organization's New Balance National Indoors.  Among the many assignments he had over the years, Walker was an assistant coach for the U.S. team that competed at the 2003 World Outdoor Championships in Paris. No details yet on services.

The New Balance National Indoor Championships begin tomorrow with the Emerging Elite races and continue through Sunday with excitement and drama at every bank of the track.  Keep your browser right here all weekend long for up-to-date ONSITE coverage!

NEW YORK –Kendell Williams came into the New Balance Nationals looking to defend her title in the pentathlon.  The senior from Kell High in Georgia accomplished that goal and more on Saturday, leaving the Armory with a national record.

NEW YORK – With the final races concluding during Day I of the New Balance Nationals on Friday, most fans inside the Armory were already out the door and heading home. It’s too bad because they certainly missed a treat. And what a show it was. (Photo by Kyle Brazeil)

NEW YORK - Last year the storylines swirled fast and furious around Erin Finn, Dior Hall, and the girls of Grosse Pointe South (Michigan).  Can they rekindle the magic this year? (Photo by Don Rich)

NEW YORK – History was made less than three weeks ago at the Armory in New York City - site of this weekend’s New Balance Indoor Nationals - by a runner that seems to break records nearly every time he laces up his track spikes. (Photo by Don Rich)

Can't wait for all the great MileSplit coverage of the 2013 NBIN?! Check out all the great coverage we put up last year including photos, videos, interviews and stories galore!

I received an email from Todd (editor of MileSplit IL) asking if my daughters would be interested in writing a blog through the end of the track season. Todd was the second person to ask this question. Before I asked them, I knew they would have no interest in this. They like zero attention on them. They get this from their mother; the same place they get their determination, drive, desire, competitiveness, humbleness, brains, and looks. I replied to Todd with this answer, jokingly adding that I would have jumped on this if I were in their shoes. Todd jokingly replied that a blog from the parent’s perspective might be interesting. I’m game.

Mary Cain wins the Mile with a huge kick of 58.6 for 400m, but 5:05.68 for the time as the pace was tactical.  Ajee Wilson powered away with the 800 with the win in a PR 2:02.64. (Photos by PhotoRun.net)

In 2011, the United States won its sixth straight IAAF World Youth Championships in Lille, France. The 2013 WYC are just months away in Donetsk, Ukraine. The U.S. team will be selected. June 25-26 at the USATF National Youth Championships in Edwardsville, Il.

In his final season of high school track, the West Virginia standout hopes to join an elite group

MileStat.com interviewed Oscar Smith's Michael Cherry as he reflects on his national record 300 meter race and stellar state meet triple from this past weekend, while also turning his attention to the New Balance Indoor nationals in which he should give an honest challenge the national record at 400 meters as well.  

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – SPIRE Institute has been officially designated a U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Training Site, one of only three facilities nationally with this distinction, as announced today by the United States Olympic Committee.

After her performance this past weekend at the 2013 Virginia High School League Group AAA State Indoor Track & Field Championships in Hampton, South County senior Felecia Majors may have cemented herself as the greatest of all-time in Virginia high school track history. Majors scored the most points ever in the history of the state meet as her 49 points among 6 individual events propelled the South County team by herself to the state team title. MileStat.com interviewed Majors following their historic septuple (meaning 7 events) at the Boo Williams Sportsplex in Hampton, Virginia this past weekend for the Virginia high school 3A indoor state meet, which puts her strongly in the discussion as the greatest all-around and overall female track & field athlete in the state's history. 

3rd times the charm for Finn at Brooks PR! Check out all the great Brooks PR and State Meet action from the weekend!!

Not to be outdone, the boys action is also going to be smoking this year at the Brooks PR meet, with fast and furious action coming your way from 60 meters to 2 miles!

A few records were challenged in Stockholm, but one important mark was broken. In the men's 3000m, Galen Rupp’s winning time of 7:30.16 broke Bernard Lagat’s previous American record of 7:32.43. Finally. After falling short in his last two American record attempts, the third time was the charm for Rupp. In two consecutive weeks, Rupp missed two records in Boston (the American indoor mile and 3000m) and was then unable to run the 5000m in Birmingham after the race was cancelled.   Unnerved Determined, Rupp decided to travel to Stockholm and take another shot at the 3000m. Rupp tucked himself... (via FloTrack)

The girls action is going to be smoking this year at the Brooks PR meet, from 60 meters of fury to 2 miles of tactical savvy.

NJ Distance Star Edward Cheserek chooses his college.

Mary Cain crossed the line with a new HS Record of 4:28.25! Cheserek 8:39.15 HSR. Fast relays and much more from the Armory! (Photo by Don Rich)

Manhattan NY - It is almost time for the 106th annual Millrose Games.  Billed as the oldest Track and Field meet in the country, all those who are attending will be in for a treat.  More Olympians than you have fingers and toes, the pro fields are stacked with top talent.  The high school fields are just as stacked, with events starting at 3:30pm, running right past 10pm.  Two notable prep names have even emerged among the professional ranks, as Mary Cain (Unattached) will race the professional mile, and Edward Cheserek (St. Benedict's Prep) is entered in the professional 2-mile.  You'll have your chance to catch your favorite relays and races, but everyone knows Millrose is all about the mile.  The prestigious Millrose Mile for prep athletes have garnered a reputation as the premiere event of the indoor season.  And we have a quick breakdown of all the top seeds and favorites, both prep and pro.  Check it out below!

Dior Hall rocked a college meet with a US#2 All-Time clocking of 8.17 over the 60m Hurdles! That's blazing!! (File Photo by Alan Versaw)

A first-person account by a former Nike Oregon Project member. (via Runner's World)

In ESPN The Magazine - The Music Issue, runner Delilah DiCrescenzo describes how a Grammy-nominated song dedicated to her changed her life and affected her career, forever. (via ESPN.com)

The contest is over, the entries have been uploaded, and the Brooks council has chosen two winners.