Pat Price & the 2017 Sir Walter Miler Preview Show

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🗓️ 28 July 2017

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Citius Mag contributor and Sir Walter Miler race director Pat Price joins the show for a casual chat to discuss his field for next week's big race in Raleigh, North Carolina. A little on the Sir Walter Miler from the official website: "The Sir Walter Miler began due to lack of stateside races for American athletes. In June 2013, Sandy Roberts was coming his best collegiate season, and couldn’t find any meets, that weren’t in Europe, to continue his development. With this position, the “Sandman Mile” was created for Roberts to attempt a sub 4:00 mile with only his brother as the pacer. The event was promoted for only a few days, and would take place at the end of football practice, with the lights still on, at Cardinal Gibbons High School. Hundreds showed up and lined the track to cheer Roberts on. The next year, the Sir Walter Miler took that energy and developed it into a mile-centric event, which has only grown since." 17 sub-four minute miles have been run by men and nine sub-4:30's by women. The race has a pretty electric atmosphere that has set a tone for how a lot of races have started to operate within the U.S. Pat discusses a little bit of that history and tradition that has formed because of the race. We size up some of the elite fields and what to expect from the top stars like Craig Engels, Stephanie Garcia and many more. You can catch the latest episode of the podcast on iTunes so subscribe and leave a five-star review.

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0:00.0	Today's episode at Citius Mac Podcast is brought to you by the Sir Walter Myler.
0:05.0	Ever find yourself disappointed about the way track events are promoted,
0:08.0	if you could put on an ideal meet, what would you do?
0:11.0	Well, a couple guys from Raleigh talked up their dream back in 2013 and four years later they've made an event that's just continuing to evolve and grow.
0:18.0	It's the Sir Walter Myler returns for its fourth year at Meredith College in Raleigh, North Carolina, Friday night, August 4th.
0:25.6	You're in the area, come check it out, I'll be there, let's hang out to have a beer because
0:29.6	they've got a pre and post-race party at a brewery within walking
0:33.0	the distance of the track.
0:34.4	The track performances are great.
0:35.9	There's been 17 sub four minute miles run by men,
0:39.5	nine sub-fort thirties by women.
0:41.4	Next day you get to run with the pros and there's a beer made
0:44.1	especially for the event this year. For more information on the fields and how to
0:48.4	enter the Citiismac presents the Raleigh Denne Mile check out to Walter Myler
0:52.2	dot com. Let's start the show. Welcome to another episode of the Citius Mag podcast.
1:12.6	Every week I'll be bringing you an interview
1:14.8	with an athlete, and then I've started
1:16.5	getting to the hang of this podcasting thing.
1:18.9	And so I'll also bring along a friend within the running community or someone that's particularly
1:25.8	interesting but not necessarily an elite athlete or coach or an agent or someone like that.
1:31.8	So this week I've got my good buddy Pat Price here.
1:34.6	Pat is a contributor for Sidious, but he's best known for being one of the race directors of the Sir Walter Myler,
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