Regina Jacobs won the women's 1,500 and 5,000 at the trials, but said she intended to run only the metric mile.
The distance of the race is sometimes referred to as a metric mile.
A distance of 1500m sometimes is called the "metric mile".
I know the Peugeot 406 had km/l (metric miles per gallon) on the display board around 10 years ago.
Last winter, Jacobs became the first woman to run the indoor metric mile in under four minutes (3:59.98).
The Cork girl won the 3,000 metres and 35 minutes later finished second in the metric mile.
The 1,500 meters at least retains Olympic familiarity as the metric mile, but the distance run frequently in high school is the 1,600.
When he finished second among 40 recruits in a mass run of the metric mile, his running career was revived.
Nobody could have done any of these things better than Karl did them (except, just possibly, running the metric mile).
She cannot see the tape at the finish line of the metric mile.