miler

Converse of object

• attract: The last Sport Relief Mile in 2004 attracted 81,000 Milers including Princes William and Harry.
• do: The other week I did a forty miler, including all the sections around Whitwell that we use on the March Hare.
• complete: With such a preparation behind you, you are well on the way to completing a 100 miler.
• run: Having run a 50 miler the day before we did Phili, he turned up at Phili, but couldn't get a number.

Adjective modifier

• good: Great race anyway, winner must surely be Europe's best miler?
• great: Our greatest ever miler happens to be married to Mrs British athletics, Paula Radcliffe.
• top: Warning was not a big horse but very neat and as a three year old he proved to be a top miler.
• high: I like the idea of a green fuel but it needs to be more widely available, particularly for high milers.
• sub-four-minute: The world's first sub-four-minute miler, Roger Banister, was a medical student at St Mary's Hospital, Paddington.
• old: Elevated to Group One status for the first timein 2003, the race attracts the season's leading older milers from across Europe.

Noun used with modifier

• minute: First the nine minute milers, then the eight minute milers and so on.
• champion: True or false: Entertainer Bobby Davro's father was a champion miler?