Penn & Drake & Annie Bersagel

I have a fair number of records and marks to present, and I will do so shortly.
But look at the word I chose as my adjective.
Fair.
You see, with the massive amount of races and the long list of elites (professional, collegiates, and even high school elites!!) that Penn and Drake offer, I expected a concomitant number of marks that make my DDD's, and a certain number of HS, Collegiate, and US records, not to mention other types of records (Meet, Age).
When the number plays out to what's to follow, and no more, I can call it only "fair".
This, despite the very high quality of many of the events, and even the high quality of the marks that did NOT set a record or make my Top 24 Performers lists (the DDD's).
Enough complaining.
There was lots to celebrate this past weekend too!

Kenyan women broke their own WR in the 4X1500 Relay, with their 17:05.72 in the Kenyan World Relays trials!
Don't have the make-up of this team, but the new record should be SHATTERED beyond recognition in that upcoming meet!
If Kenya, Ethiopia, and the US (just to name 3) bring their "A" teams, I'm predicting times of under 16:20, or 4:05 per leg, for the winner....or even all 3 teams just named!!
At the very LEAST, I predict a time under 16:40.

The High Jump produced some great results.

At Drake, Canada's Derek Drouin became the newest 2.40 metric leaper, hitting that 7-10.50 mark exactly.
He broke the Canadian National record.
He's now 5th A-T World, tied with 5 others.
It's also the new Age 24 record, as well as the Drake Meet record!

But he wasn't alone.
The next two places were taken by Americans, Eric Kynard and Dusty Jonas, both getting 7-8.50.
No records or PR's, though!

Drake's Women's HJ was also of good quality.
Comebacking (from pregnancy) Chaunte Lowe got her post-partum PR, jumping a good 6-5 for the win.

Inika McPherson got a quarter-inch PR, hitting 6-5 also in second.
This brings her to 13th A-T US, tied with 2 others.

Both Lowe and McPherson tied Lowe's Drake Meet record from 2010.

At Penn, Tynita Butts became 20th All-Time Collegian, tied with 6 others, with her winning height of 6-2.75.

At the HP/OTC Series 1 meet in Chula Vista CA, the Men's LJ produced a couple of great marks.

Greg Rutherford broke the British National record with his 27-11 jump.
This makes him 18th A-T World, tied with 1 other.

Second was American Tyron Stewart, his 27-6.50  making him 21st A-T US.
But what was most interesting about this previously unknown's (to me, at least!!) leap were the two names he shoved OFF my DDD list!!

Previously tied in 24th place were icons Ralph Boston and Arnie Robinson.
Boston's 27-4.75 mark dated from 1965!!
Robinson's mark dated from 1976!!
Goodbye to two SUPER Heroes of the event!

Whitney Ashley has been having quite the year so far in the Discus Throw.
Two meets, and two PR's.
And the meets were on consecutive days!!
The 25 year old first PR'ed at 204-4.25
Then, next day, she again PR'ed at 209-3, the latter mark placing her 13th A-T US!!
She'd moved from 19th to 17th place with her first mark!

Keeping the field events together, let's finish off with Kearsten Peoples new SP best.
She putted 58-8.75, moving her to 21st A-T Collegian.
She'd been in 23rd place!

Two Penn DMR's produced solid marks.

The Men's Collegiate race was the most anticipated.
Oregon (UO) won the race in 9:25.40.
This is a new School record, but they remain in 7th place A-T Collegiate.

Stanford broke their School record too, their 9:29.66 making them 10th fastest School!
Kentucky was next, their 9:30.52 making them 11th best School.
And Air Force ran 9:40.12, making them 23rd best School, tied with 1 other.

Two Women's DMR teams made my list...or improved their list position!
Stanford ran 10:57.64 for 9th School A-T.
Dartmouth, with Abbey D'Agostino anchoring, ran 11:06.31, making them 17th fastest School.

Drake Meet Records were set by LaShawn Merritt's 44.44 400 (How's that for numerical alliteration?!), and Hansle Parchment's 110H time of 13.14.

There were a few good 3000 marks by HS girls of note.
But none of them made my Top 24 list.

Stephanie Jenks ran the fastest, her 9:26.87 at Drake missing 24th place by just 1.20 seconds!
And remember, she's just a 10th grader!!
The Soph Class record is held by Julia Stamps, with her 9:21.99 from 1995.

I normally wouldn't mention Relay splits, as they're sometimes not 100% accurate, and they have no place on my DDD's.
But Olivia Baker's 800 anchor in her school's 4X800 at Penn was too good to not mention!
She ran a spectacular 2:02.55, bringing her Columbia (NJ) team to an 8:45 clocking, just 2+ seconds off the HSR!
Baker ran several other races too!!

Finally, just in is the marathon by Annie Bersagel.
She's an American lawyer who lives in Norway!
And she's fast, and getting faster.
She recently got a Half PR of 1:10:08.
Also a Marathon PR of 2:30:53.

Today, she WON the Dusseldorf Marathon in a new PR of 2:28:59.
She negative split the race (1:15:02 and 1:13:57), and beat a few Kenyans and Ethiopians, something Americans don't do very often.
The time makes Bersagel 22nd A-T US!
(Remember, I include point-to-point courses, including Boston's, on my list!!)

Well, I know I keep saying this, but NEXT week could be a real record-breaker!!
There's the distance madness at Payton Jordan.
Plus the first American Track League meet in Bloomington, Indiana.
Also a good meet in Jamaica, as well as the first Diamond League meet in Doha coming soon!
Not to mention the usual collection of College and High School events!

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