In other news.......

With my recent posts on the Marathon and the (US Women's) Mile, you'd think T&F was limited to that!
Not on THIS blog!
I cover Track AND Field....indoors and out, men and women.
But you gotta admit, the Dubai Marathon and those 2 Women's Mile races I wrote about recently DID provide a lot of meat for the grinder, so to speak.

Anyway, time's-a-wasting, so as one of my favorite people, Carrie Tollefson, says (to end her brilliant videos at "C Tolle Run.com"), "Let's get after it!".

Galen Rupp broke the American Indoor 2 Mile record last night!
Perfectly paced (at WORLD Record pace!!) for over 2000 meters, Rupp slowed a bit over the final 400, but still broke Bernard Lagat's AR of 8:09.49 with his time of 8:07.41.
This rates 6th A-T in the World.
His previous best of 8:09.72 ranked him # 12, so he moves up 6 spots!
His enroute 3000 time was 7:34.68.
Rupp just missed the Age 27 best of Eliud Kipchoge (8:07.39) by 0.02 seconds!!

I must ask a question here....in a question-statement sort of way!
Bethwell Birgen was the main pacer, and he stayed in the race through 3000 (though the latter part NOT as pacer!), then DNF'ed!!
Why?
His time at 3000 was recorded as 7:37.17, just 2.49 seconds behind Rupp!
He was thus just 218 meters from finishing the full 2 miles!
His time, even if he just cruised it, would have been around 8:12....a VERY good 2 mile time!
8:12.00 would have made him 14th A-T in the World!!
(He didn't appear wasted when he stopped....he just stopped!)
A waste of a great effort, IMHO!!

Onward!!

University of Georgia freshman, Kendell Williams, who broke the HSR with her 4068 Pentathlon score at 2013's NBN Indoor, improved that score by a whopping 234 points with her 4302 winning score this weekend.
I'm in the process of adding the Collegiate Indoor Multi's to my book, so I apologize for not having the data needed to say HOW great her mark is.
But I'm pretty sure it's VERY close to being the Frosh record for Collegians!
AND probably will make my Top 24 Collegiate list!
I'll let you know ASAP!
Here's how she improved her score over her HSR:

4068:  8:43 (60H)   5-11.50 (HJ)   34-10.50 (SP)   19-0.50  (LJ)   2:31.63  (800)
4302:  8.40             5-11.25           36-9.50             20-6.25           2:26.64

Another event I'm only now making a part of my book, the Indoor 600, had a good race yesterday, but again, I don't have all the necessary data yet to tell you HOW good it was!
Duane Solomon beat Eric Sowinski, 1:16.67 to 1:16.78!

Renaud Lavillenie broke his own French National Record (from 2011) by one-half inch, to 19-9.75.
He remains in 3rd place A-T World!

High School Senior Keturah Orji LJ'ed a great 20-8.75 to move to # 5 A-T HS Indoor!!
Now here's the great part of the story!
This was in the prelims!!
She never competed in the final at The Armory, as she was so involved watching Olympian Will Claye TJ, she forgot all about her own event!!
But the mark counts, and so she's now 5th best-ever indoors!!
(Her best event is......the Triple Jump!!)

The Grand Old Man of the sport, Bernard Lagat, got his first Age 39 record in the big meet in Glasgow.
He now is the fastest indoors at that age in the 3000, his time being a modest 7:49.83.
He outsprinted 28 year old Brit Andy Vernon (7:50.10) for the win!

Another old man (LOL), Chris Brown of Great Britain, ran 400 in 45.93 for the Age 35 record!

Gwen Berry threw the WT 80-0.25 for the Age 24 record!
That also moves her up the A-T World list from 9th to 3rd!!
(She also moves from 7th to 3rd on the US DDD list!)
As I've said before, the WT is NOT thrown by many outside the United States, but 80 feet is still a GREAT throw!!

Two other WT'ers  had good marks.
Michael Lihrman's throw of 74-7.75 makes him 20th A-T Collegian.
Antonio James moved to 21st A-T Collegian with his 74-7.25.

Garrett Heath finished 2nd (to Brit Lee Emmanuel's 3:54.30), but his indoor PR of 3:54.59 moves him from 18th A-T USA up to 12th!
His previous best was 3:55.24 from 2012.

Kendra Harrison sprinted the 60H in 7.96 to move into a two-way tie at 11th A-T Collegian!

Chanelle Price ran an indoor PR of 2:01.91 in Glasgow, making her 23rd All Time American.
However, she lost the race to 20 year old Brit Laura Muir, who ran a good 2:00.95.
BTW, Price moved Delisa Walton OFF the list, thus removing another "ancient" mark, Walton running her time in 1980!

Nick Ross HJ'ed 7-7, moving him from a tie at 14th A-T Collegian (with 11 others!!) into a tie at 9th (this time with just 5 others!!).

Finally, Laura Roesler ran an 800 which I hesitate to even give voice to!
Why?
After all, Laura is a very beautiful and very fast gal at Oregon, and her time of 2:01.32 is # 2 A-T Indoors among Collegians!
But it's NOT!!!

Huh?

You see, she ran this FANTASTIC time on an OT measuring 290 meters around!
It doesn't count!
It does NOT make her 2nd A-T Collegian indoors!
And it is NOT an Indoor PR by one full second!!
Sorry, Laura, but next time you run 2:01.32 indoors, make sure it's on a 200 meter track!!

One other sorrowful note, though of a different nature.

Brenda Martinez announced she will NOT race the 1000 in Boston on February 8th, due to loss of some training because of an illness.
She's apparently okay now, but she said she lost too much training to run a good race!
Hurry back, Brenda!