Mile run occasionally contested in cross country running and mile runs on the road include the Fifth Avenue Mile in New York City Key: Mile run The mile run (1,760 yards or exactly 1,609.344 metres) is a middle-distance foot race. The history of the mile run event began in England, where it was used as a distance for gambling races. It survived track and field's switch to metric distances in the 1900s and retained its popularity, with the chase for the four-minute mile in the 1950s a high point for the race. In spite of the roughly equivalent 1500 metres race, the
Many a Mile Shirley Bassey, Françoise Hardy and Elvis Presley. "Groundhog" shows Sainte-Marie playing her unique mouthbow. The song "The Piney Wood Hills" was re-recorded for "I'm Gonna Be a Country Girl Again" three years later (in a Nashville country arrangement), and again thirty years later on the album "Up Where We Belong". All tracks composed by Buffy Sainte-Marie, except where indicated Many a Mile Many a Mile is Buffy Sainte-Marie's second album, released in 1965. Though originally released on Vanguard Records, it was never reissued on CD when the rest of Sainte-Marie's catalog for that label came out in the late 1990s.