1.   Another Scots exile, David Strang, has broken the Scottish indoor mile record for the third time in the US.

2.   Tim Willis, who holds the national blind mile record, will run the Peachtree Road Race next Tuesday.

3.   From the mile world record to a bad case of hemorrhoids and the death of his beloved king, it has been an eventful season for Hicham El Guerrouj.

4.   Hicham El Guerrouj of Morocco Thursday failed to break the mile world record that has been held for five years by middle-distance great Noureddine Morceli.

5.   If Morceli lowers his mile record Wednesday night, he could have a lot of added company in the record books.

6.   Last Friday, he had missed the world mile record by only five-tenths of a second in the Bislett Games in Oslo, Norway.

7.   Ngeny broke the mile world record in Rome last week only to be beaten in a thrilling finish by Moroccan Hicham El Guerrouj.