Henry plans a "mobile mile" challenge

Henry Rono, the former multiple world-record-holder who has been blogging for almost two years about his aim to take the 4:40 world mile record for masters from Nolan Shaheed, has now announced a series of races that amounts to a world tour.

While fans want to now if he is going to be in sub-17 shape for the Carlsbad 5k in a couple of weeks, as promised, Henry seems more focused on racing himself to world record shape. He says he will take the record by September, in Norway. So far this year his times have been average and he's still to get anywhere near 5 minutes, let alone catch Shaheed, the legendary West Coast-based jazz trumpeter who trains two hours a day and eats just once a day.

As far as I can make out from Henry's idiosyncratic posts on his dedicated thread on the Letsrun.com forums, he is planning a series of track events that will include 1-mile and 5k races or time trials, starting with a 5k tt on March 29 in Albuquerque, then on to California, then Spokane, WA and so on to Europe, four meets in two countries, and then to Norway - "later in the season by then I should have the mile record". He's calling it the "RonoRun Mobile Mile Run".