250 years ago, on a beautiful spring morning in Concord, Massachusetts, brave men and women awoke with rebellion on their mind, freedom in their hearts, and the spirit of revolution in their souls. In the face of repression and tyranny from the most powerful empire in the world, they planted their boots in the ground and fired the shot heard round the world. These ordinary people’s extraordinary courage birthed an imperfect nation rooted in perfect ideals: freedom, democracy, liberty and justice for all, and an unrelenting insistence on measuring distance using miles, not kilometers.

One year ago, just down the road in Somerville, Massachusetts, a group of 17 visionaries birthed another revolution. This ‘shot heard round the world’ came from a toy pop gun rather than a musket, but the movement was just as important. Faced with a world that told them that the track -- the sacred oval, the pinnacle of racing -- was reserved for high school, college, and professional competition, these young-adult amateurs took a stand. They knew the conniving running-industrial-complex wanted mid twenty year olds like them on the roads paying top dollar to run long races with funny numbers like 26.2 and 13.1, but they were undeterred. Armed with nothing but their shoes, a smelly trash can full of gatorade, and the deeply natural craving to race a single mile, these young people took off at the sound of the pop gun and in doing so changed the racing world.

On August 2, 2025 we will celebrate the second anniversary of this great American race. Join us for the Guinea Pig Mile Part II.

Your Co-Founders,

Alex Sharp and Ethan Weiner