There he set school records as a half-miler and miler.

Yonkers was a half-miler - a longer launch and a shorter way home.

"But there really hasn't been a great Jamaican half-miler.

There were 25 runners left in the Grade 3 two and a half-miler at yesterday's penultimate entry stage.

Jordan is use to being a half-miler.

I was an erratic student, painfully shy around girls and not even mediocre as a half-miler on the high school track team.

Had he been a great quarter-miler or even a half-miler, I'm sure more youngsters would have opted to try that."

He also trained as a half-miler.

If students had trouble getting to a meet, he would pick them up, one of his runners, Sam Thomas, a city champion half-miler, once recalled.

Second, she will be helped by a pace setter, Michelle Ave, a leading half-miler.

The last time he picked a target for a winner of yesterday's two and a half-miler at Cheltenham, he did so correctly.

"Nothing is set in concrete" said the gelding's trainer, Tom George, "but we think the two and a half-miler would be more to his liking."

Winzenried became a top half-miler in 1968 while a freshman at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Pat Clarke took over the running of the half-miler from previous owner Denis Galway.

Additionally, Arlington Memorial Bridge will close on Sunday from 6 to 11 a.m. for the marathon and half-miler.

He was educated at Eton College where he was a successful half-miler and a member of the college eight.

Huddle, coached by her father, Bob, who was a 1:50 college half-miler at Notre Dame, attributed her success to rest.

Philippe was a half-miler and miler at Fordham, good enough to have won the 800-meter silver medal in the 1973 World University Games.

"When Bruce Dern, the actor, was a Penn half-miler," Fabricus said, "Ken kicked him off the team because he wouldn't cut his long hair.

As a useful club quarter-miler and half-miler who could boast times of 49.8 and 1:54.1, Norman understood better than most officials the needs of athletes for regular competition.

While at Union College, Kilpatrick became the world's leading half-miler, becoming intercollegiate champion in 1894 and US champion three times between 1894 and 1896.

Harry Bright — a former half-miler whose attitude suits his surname — sprang up to praise his coach’s leadership in forging a team that knew no boundaries of race.

Perhaps sensing my limits as a half-miler, my coach, Tony Sparandara, entered me in the third heat of a one-mile race during a visit to the Armory my sophomore year.

In time, Bob Jesson, the Penn Wood coach, found him so talented and versatile that he used Burrell in some meets as a quarter-miler, half-miler or high jumper.