Color runs have lost their luster, and zombie runs are better off dead. Marathoners can be kind of annoying, and those half-marathoners with their half-marathon stickers ("13.1 — We're only HALF CRAZY LOL!!!") aren't much better. But south city's Macklind Mile? Now you're talking. This one-mile summertime race starts at the YMCA on Macklind and Sublette avenues — elevation, 560 feet — and heads down Macklind and across Chippewa Street, ending precisely 5,280 feet later in Southampton's business district. It has only grown in popularity since its inception in 2008, and according to race director Jeffrey Promnitz of Big River Running, June's turnout amounted to some 1,463 participants — from stroller-pushing parents to elite runners to kids and couch potatoes. This year's Macklind Mile ended with a street party complete with PBR (or smoothies from Smoothie King) at the finish line, food, music and bounce houses for the kiddos. And you bet your Nikes we bought a "Macklind Mile 1.0" sticker...and that we slapped it on our bumper with pride that only comes from a runner's high.
Washington Avenue from Vandeventer to Compton avenues
| Sep 27, 2012
Lindell Boulevard from Skinker Boulevard to the Missouri History Museum
| Sep 22, 2011
Ninth Street from Lynch Street to Lafayette Avenue
| Sep 29, 2010
South Grand Boulevard from Shaw Boulevard to Utah Place
| Sep 30, 2009
Cherokee Street
| Sep 24, 2008
Magnolia Avenue from Kingshighway
to Grand Boulevard
| Sep 26, 2007
Manchester Avenue from McCausland Avenue to Big Bend Boulevard
| Sep 27, 2006
The (New?) Mississippi riverfront
| Sep 29, 2005
Market Street, between 4th and 20th streets
| Sep 29, 2004
Market Street, between 4th and 20th streets
| Sep 29, 2004