The world 1500m silver medallist Lisa Dobriskey will, if she passes a fitness test on a quad strain, be chasing a third successive mile victory on Tyneside, where she will be partnered by Hannah England and Jenny Meadows.
It presented a stirring and dismaying sight, as regiment after regiment, dressed in Confederate gray or butternut brown, advanced in three successive waves, each two miles wide.
Ours has been one of the most polluted stories in football of late: bought by the hedge fund Sisu, we've been forced into administration, docked 10 points in successive seasons, dragged 34 miles from the city of Coventry to play our home fixtures in Northampton and royally embarrassed by it all.
We spotted them from about a mile away — successive spikes, each one steeper than its predecessor.
Nonetheless he is there, and Beaumont does an excellent job of bringing him out of the shadows, from young bucks who enjoyed tipping over the wooden huts in which nightwatchmen – many of them elderly and comically ineffective – spent the small hours snoozing, to the celebrated Captain Barclay, an athlete who in 1809 walked 1,000 miles in 1,000 successive hours for 1,000 guineas.
For much of the last two months, the focus of the response to the Deepwater Horizon explosion has been a mile underwater, 50 miles from shore, where successive efforts involving containment domes, "top kills" and "junk shots" have failed, and a "spillcam" shows tens of thousands of barrels of oil hemorrhaging into the gulf each day.
These unified groups included the Huns, who invaded Europe, and under Attila, conducted campaigns in both eastern France and northern Italy, over 500 miles apart, within two successive campaign seasons.
Against Derek Jeter in the first inning, he threw three successive sinkers at 94, 95 and 96 miles per hour.
The rebel army, together at last, presented a stirring and dismaying sight, as regiment after regiment, dressed in Confederate gray or butternut brown, emerged from the woods in three successive waves, each in a line two miles long.
It would be easy to charge the car by asking successive pub landlords between Westminster and the Royal Mile if they wouldn't mind you plugging into their electricity supply while you had a drink.
