Pro Races

Interested in competing? email the meet director at info@stlfestivalofmiles.com

ST. LOUIS TRACK CLUB MENS MILE

This race has become a regular stop for top milers since 2009 when US Olympian Leo Manzano led three men under the four-minute barrier with his 3:55.29.

Jordan McNamara (Nike Oregon Project) holds the meet record of 3:54.27 which he set in 2014. McNamara also holds the record for most wins at FOM with four!

High schoolers have also made history at Festival of Miles. Grant Fisher, a senior from Michigan, became the 7th U.S. high school athlete to break four in 2015. Reed Brown, a senior from Texas, became the 9th U.S. high school athlete to break the four-minute barrier in 2017. In 2022, for the first time in U.S. running history, two high schoolers ran sub-4 in the same race with Gary Martin, a senior from Pennsylvania who had already run sub-4, bettering his PR and Connor Burns, a junior from Missouri, running sub-4 for the first time (15th U.S. high schooler to do so). Burns is the first Missouri runner to break 4 and the first junior since Jim Ryun!

In both 2018 and 2022, fans saw 7 sub-4 miles, our record for largest number of sub-4s in one race at Festival of Miles.

All told, FOM has produced 56 sub four-minute-miles, making SLUH one of the fastest high school tracks in the country!

ALL-TIME FESTIVAL OF MILES SUB-4 LIST

DRURY HOTELS WOMENS MILE 

In 2021 the Festival of Miles added the Women’s Mile to replace the 800 meter race, and it has been a huge crowd favorite.

Amanda Eccleston became the first female mile champion, running a world leading time of 4:30.06.

In 2023, Abby Nichols of HOKA NAZ Elite led three women under 4:30 and secured the meet record with a time of 4:26.08.

Prior to 2021, the Women’s Field competed at 800m. The Women’s 800m was contested from 2011-2019. Team USA Minnesota teammates Gabe Grunewald (nee Gabriele Anderson) and Heather Kampf went one-two in that first edition of the event. Kampf came back and won the event for the next three years.

2015 saw a new meet record with three-time NCAA Champion LaTavia Thomas (NJNY Track Club) running 2:00.99. Local high school standout Hannah Long finished fifth in 2:04.23, the 2nd-fastest high school time of 2015.

2017 saw a high school phenom from Florida, Caitlin Collier, take the win with a personal best time of 2:03.32.

Prize Money:

MEN’S MILE

  • 1st- $3,000
  • 2nd- $1,500
  • 3rd- $1,250
  • 4th- $1,000
  • 5th- $750
  • MEET RECORD BONUS – additional $1,000 to the winner if he goes under 3:54.27
  • WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP STANDARD BONUS – $500 to each athlete meeting the World Championship standard for either the mile or 1500

WOMEN’S Mile

  • 1st- $3,000
  • 2nd- $1,500
  • 3rd- $1,250
  • 4th- $1,000
  • 5th- $750
  • MEET RECORD BONUS – $1,000 to the winner if she breaks the event record of 4:26.08.
  • WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP STANDARD BONUS – $500 to each athlete meeting the World Championship standard for either the mile or 1500
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