The 1st (Annual??) Armory Track Invitational produced many great marks, from the HS, Collegiate, and Pro divisions!
The best--and that's no doubt a matter of opinion!-- was the "WR" run by a USA Distance Medley Relay team comprised of Matthew Centrowitz, Mike Berry, Eric Sowinski, and Pat Casey.
Centro split a great 2:49.47 over 1200, then Berry chugged his 400 in 46.40, then it was Sowinski hitting his 800 in 1:47.60, before Casey anchored with a 1600 of 3:56.48.
Final time of 9:19.93.
The DMR isn't run INdoors by the Pro's much, as it's mostly a US Collegiate and HS race.
In fact, the record they beat was the Collegiate Record, which also served as the AR and the WR.
Two other teams got National Records.
Ireland's was 9:25.37.
Kenya ran 9:27.21.
While he missed both Canadian National Records (1 of them his own!), Cam Levins nonetheless had an incredible day.
Or should I say HALF HOUR?!
Yep, he doubled in the Mile and 2 Mile in about 30 minutes time!!
And he missed each NR by just tenths of a second!
First up was the Mile--3:54.74.
Nate Brannen has the NR with his 3:54.32 from 2014.
Then came the 2 Mile--8:15.38.
Cam's NR is last year's 8:14.69.
The Deuce wasn't all his, however.
Suguru Osako ran 8:16.47, for the Japan National Record.
Ben Blankenship ran 8:16.53.
That makes him 6th A-T US.
And Reed Connor ran 8:27.87, which makes him 21st A-T US.
(BTW, Galen Rupp was in this race---even the FEATURED star!!--but he finished just 4th, timed in 8:17.24!)
Jordan Hasay won the Women's 2 mile in 9:38.28.
But it wasn't her PR.
Nicole Tully ran 9:39.38.
She's now 14th A-T US.
Marielle Hall's 9:39.61 rates her 16th A-T US.
Ashley Higginson ran a PR of 9:42.58.
She moves from 22nd A-T US up to 20th!
And Liz Costello ran 9:42.78, making her 21st A-T US!
Ajee Wilson beat Treniere Moser (among others), in the featured 800.
Moser's time of 2:01.79 makes her 21st A-T US.
Further back, in 5th, was Mary Cain, who ran 2:02.75.
That's actually a 4.5 second INdoor PR for her!
Let's leave NYC for a bit, because the JDL meet in North Carolina produced probably the best American performance of the entire weekend!
Shannon Rowbury split from her NY-bound NOP teammates to race the Mile at JDL.
Well, I'm not sure if you can call it a "race", as 2nd place was about 8 seconds behind!!
Her 4:22.66 is 3rd on the All-Time US INdoor list!!
She's now 5th on the World list!
And it's the Age 30 record!
(No 1500 splits have appeared yet, but I will of course report it if and when it becomes available!)
Morgan Uceny beat Heather Kampf for 2nd, 4:30.90 to 4:31.24.
Much further back, but running the fastest HS time of the year, was Ryen Frazier.
Of course, Frazier's 4:44.20 Mile back in November was the lead-off mark for this hot HOT 2015 season!
Here, she ran 4:41.56.
She moves from 12th A-T HS (tied with 1 other) to 8th!
There's so much to report, I don't know how to order it all!
So let's go next to 3 Age Records!
Ruth Beitia HJ'ed 6-5 for the Age 35 record.
Amy Acuff seems to be seriously coming back, and her best HJ so far is 6-0.75, which is the Age 39 record!
And Kim Collins (Who else??) broke the Age 38 record for the 60---TWICE!!
First up was his heat of 6.55.
Then he broke it again with the final, time of 6.52.
Georgeanne Moline ran a spectacular "solo" (2nd was over 3 seconds back!) 500 time of 1:08.84.
This is 4th A-T US.
It's 11th A-T World!
The only Americans ahead of her are AR holder Shana Cox (1:08.70), Jearl Miles-Clark (1:08.71), and Joetta Clark (1:08.82).
For comparison's sake, Francena McCorory is next with 1:09.01.
In The Armory, both HS 300 races produced great marks.
First up was the Women's race.
The incredible Soph Sydney McLaughlin ran 37.49.
That's 2nd A-T HS.
And it's the Soph Class record.
Only the ubiquitous McCorory is ahead of her!
The Men's race was a RACE, as Sydney's older brother Taylor gave Rai Benjamin a run for his money.
Benjamin's 33.17 is also 2nd A-T HS.
McLaughlin's PR of 33.62 wasn't that far behind!!
But Benjamin doesn't get the Senior Class record, as HSR holder Michael Cherry's 33.05 has that one.
In Arkansas, at the Razorback Invitational, Texas A&M's Men's 4X400 team came within 0.03 seconds of the CR.
Their time was 3:03.23.
The Pole Vault took a slight siesta this weekend!
Although on any other January weekend of most any other year, the marks I have would be THE headline-makers!!
But NOT in this Year of the Vault!
Anyway, here's what I've got.
Sandi Morris got a PR jump of 15-3, which WOULD have been the CR just a few weeks earlier!!
As it is, it only strengthens her hold on the number 2 position on the A-T Collegiate list!
However, it does improve her place on the A-T US list, from 8th (tied with 1 other) to 6th (also tied with 1 other).
BTW, she tweeted to me that Desiree Freier was "resting for a long season", which explained Freier's absence from the meet.
CR holder Demi Payne could clear "only" 15-1.75!
Both she and Morris--in separate meets--tried the CR height of 15-7.25, both missing their 3 tries.
(Some were reportedly close!!)
Renaud Lavillenie cleared the "human" height of 19-2.75.
I think he tried some higher height---unknown to me--but missed.
Shawn Barber cleared 19-0.25, short of his 19-3 CR.
Angelica Bengtsson, who was a teenage prodigy a few years ago, finally got a PR.
She jumped a good 15-4.25
She breaks her own National Record of Sweden.
But it misses my World DDD list by 0.75 inches!!
The Weeks twins, Lexi and Tori, both jumped 13-9's, not their PR's.
Do they ever jump different heights??
Finally (in the PV world), Adam Hague continues to break the Age 17 record!
For the 3rd time since late December, Hague has upped this record!
The latest is his 18-2.50.
(He doesn't turn 18 until August 29th!!)
Our WT friend with the unspellable name, Chuk Enekwechi, continues to PR.
His latest throw went 78-10.50.
He rises to 11th A-T World.
He was 18th.
He goes from 12th to 9th on the A-T US list.
And he's now 2nd on the Collegiate list, up from 10th!!
Kearsten Peoples also had a good WT.
Her 72-8 throw is good for 22nd A-T Collegiate.
She is also now 22nd US
Removed FROM my Collegiate DDD list is one of the event's pioneers.
Gone is Dawn Ellerbe's 71-8.75 from 1997, thus leaving my Top 24 Collegiate list with no one from the 20th century!!
Sifan Hassan ran 4:02.57 for 1500, which is 16th A-T World.
It also breaks her own National Record of Holland!
Second in that race was Axumawit Embaye, whose 4:02.92 is now 19th A-T World.
Najee Glass ran a great 400 in the Arkansas meet.
His 45.34 ranks him 11th A-T Collegiate.
And 13th (tied with 1 other) on the US list.
He's also now 20th (tied with 1 other) on the World DDD!!
Vernon Norwood's 2nd place mark of 45.56 wasn't a PR.
There were some good Multi's, with maybe the best being denied a place on my lists because it was in Seattle! (OT marks, even in the Multi's, are currently not okay for record or list purposes.)
Jeremy Taiwo did the Heptathlon in Seattle, scoring 6344 points.
He WOULD be 5th US and 13th World, if not for the OT!
Another great OT mark was Akela Jones's Pentathlon score of 4402.
Jess Heranf scored 4289 points.
This makes her 18th A-T Collegiate.
Alex Gochenour got 4259 points, and that WOULD have made her 23rd A-T Collegiate.
However, soon after finding Gochenour's mark, I found Heranf's!!
Thus, Alex is now 24th A-T Collegiate!
A couple of old marks to report.
Shure Demise's Dubai Marathon time of 2:20:59 turns out to be a new Age 19 record!!
She was born on January 21st, so she was 2 days into her 19th year when she ran Dubai!
Yekaterina Koneva TJ'ed 48-2, making her 24th A-T World, tied with 1 other.
Speaking of 24th place marks, Erika Kinsey HJ'ed 6-2.75 to reach that place on the A-T Collegiate list.
(She's tied there with 3 others!)
BTW, she's a Division 2 athlete, but I include those marks on my Collegiate lists.
Marcellus Fletcher TJ'ed 51-0 for 17th on the A-T HS list.
Omar Craddock finished 2nd to Will Claye, but his TJ of 55-4.25 is good for 22nd A-T US, tied with 2 others.
Jake Bender ran 600 meters in 1:17.83 for 22nd A-T Collegiate.
Joe Luongo finished behind favored Richard Rose, but his 1:18.83 600 moves him all the way from 24th A-T HS to 8th!!
(Rose ran a solid 1:18.43, but his PR is his 1:18.40 from December!)
James Burke tied his PR in the 1000---time of 2:26.75--so he remains 22nd A-T HS.
Oklahoma State's Men's team ran a DMR in 9:30.65.
This makes them the 19th fastest School on the Collegiate list.
Georgetown's 9:28.22 DMR moves them up 1 notch on the Collegiate list, from 6th School to 5th.
No records or list placings, but the Duke and Wisconsin Women had a great race in the DMR.
Duke's Haley Meier outran Sarah Disanza of Wisconsin on the anchor 1600's--4:47.42 to 4:49.70--to win, 11:23.43 to 11:24.61.
A College girl won a fast 1000, but her name won't go on the A-T list.
She's a student at the University of Toronto, which of course is not part of the NCAA system!
Her name is Gabriella Stafford, and she ran 2:42.75, which would rank her 11th A-T Collegiate if U of T were in the US!
Hang in there, folks, we're nearing the finish line!!
Jalen Miller ran a 60 in 6.55, which misses the Collegiate Top 24 by just 0.01 seconds!!
A few good OT marks from Seattle's meet are worth noting.
Jason Witt of BYU ran 5000 meters in 13:42.08.
Ryan Hill's Mile of 3:56.84 beat Andrew Wheating's 3:57.42.
Ryan Crouser threw the SP 68-9, but it's not a PR.
Last, but certainly not least, I'm happy (or sad?) to report that the Superstar known as Mary Cain lost one of her records!!
Sammy Watson may not be "the new Mary Cain" just yet, but she DID beat Mary's Soph Class 1000 record of 2:47.29 from 2012!
Watson nipped it by just 0.02 seconds, but a Record is a Record!!
Not only that, but her time of 2:47.27 is now 7th A-T HS!!
And she wasn't alone!
Ersula Farrow ran 2:48.39 behind her, leaving her 15th A-T HS!!
Well, folks, that's a wrap for today!
But almost assuredly---Oh Hell, ASSUREDLY!!!--the Russian Winter Games and a few other meets being held tomorrow will produce MORE great marks!!
(Also, Kayla Montgomery will be trying to break 17:00 for the 5000, according to her Coach at Lipscomb!)
Until then, have fun processing all the above material!
There's more on the way!!
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