Mid-Week Update

Sorry for the delay, but I have enough stuff left off the previous (LONGGG) post to warrant this mid-week update.
There is another reason I'm doing this today, which I'll explain in a bit.
First, here's the marks to whet your appetite for what's coming next weekend.

Is Kim Collins sprinting's Bernard Lagat?
Or perhaps the male version of Merlene Ottey?

Believe it or not, he ran a PR for 60 meters!!
Yep, he ran 6.48, walloped Brit James Kilty, and eeked out a PR by 0.01 seconds.
It's obviously an Age 38 record.
It's also a St Kitts National Record!
And it puts him in 21st place on the A-T World list, but tied with 7 others!!

Another significant mark came from HJ'er Kamila Licwinko, but it's significant for a more personal reason!
You see, when there's a whole lot of ties at or near the bottom of one of my DDD lists, it creates mayhem on the page and frustration in my heart!

Well, the Women's INdoor HJ Top 24 had about 35 (!) names on the list, due to a massive amount of ties at 2.00 meters, or 6-6.75.
I kept wishing for that ONE woman who was NOT on the list, or was one of the 2 meter women, to finally reach 2.01, or 6-7!

And Ms Licwinko did!!
Her 6-7 allowed me to cross off many marks from the 80's and 90's, and 2 from this century!
Some of those axed were:
Yelena Yelesina (1990)
Lyudmila Avdeyenko (1988)
Larisa Kositsyna (1988)
and Colleen Sommer from 1982!
She was the only American to be 86'ed!
The newest, from 2013, was Alessia Trost, who of course has a chance to join (or surpass) Licwinko!

Anyway, Licwinko moves to 17th A-T World, but she's tied THERE with 7 others!!
But for now, my list is back to just 24 names!!

An old mark I didn't report is Sabrina Gaitan's WT of 59-7.
This moves her from 22nd A-T HS to 13th.

Adam Kelly threw the Weight 83-0, making him 6th A-T HS.

JC Lambert, another WT'er (whom I'd never even heard of before!), improved to 79-4.75!
This moves him onto the World list in 10th place!!
It also moves him up on the US list from 20th to 9th!

Noah Lyles, who is almost as much a prodigy as Kaylin Whitney, ran 300 meters in a blazing 33.32.
This is a Class Record for 11th Graders!
And it makes him 7th A-T HS!!

This has been quite a year for the 300.
Or should I say quite a WEEK?!
(Remember the great marks I reported in the previous post from Rai Benjamin and Sydney McLaughlin!)

Maybe I should have put this next mark right after the news about Kim Collins!
Venelina Veneva-Mateeva HJ'ed 6-2.75 for the INdoor Age 40 record!
(Amy Acuff will have some work to do just to dominate the 40-and-over crowd!!  Although Amy won't turn 40 until July!)

Nicole Green HJ'ed 6-0.
She's now 8th A-T HS, tied with 7 others!

Kate Hall LJ'ed 20-1.50, making her 21st A-T HS, but tied with 2 others.

And in the SP, Sophia Rivera got out to 49-9.25.
She's also 21st A-T HS.

Andrew Hudson ran the 200 in 21.36, so he's now 23rd A-T HS.

And Terrell Jackson has an 800 time of 1:51.80, which makes him 24th A-T HS!
(Too bad his recent 1:50.63 was on an Oversize Track!!)

Same goes for Grant Fisher's 4:07.29 Mile!
If he'd run that on a legal track, he'd be 10th A-T HS!

Remember my report on Stanford's DMR of 11:04.99?
Well, I found out that Elise Cranny ran the anchor 1600 in 4:34.76!

Finally, good news from the Kayla Montgomery front!
No PR, or sub-17:00 time (yet!), but this wonderful girl WON her race at the Ed Temple meet in Nashville last Sunday!!
She WON!!
Her 18:02.39 beat one of her teammates by 24 seconds!!
(She beat the other 7 runners as well, of course!)

That other reason for this post, mentioned earlier, is this.

I've been saying what a HOT first several weeks this INdoor season has been.
Well, at least on the HS level, maybe NOT as hot as I thought!!

I decided to do some comparing.
So I went to my trusty copy of Jack Shepard's HS Track 2015 book.
I selected marks from the 2014 INdoor lists (in Jack's book).
Meaning, the list covering the entire 2014 INdoor season!

Then I went to the 2015 HS lists on the T&FN website.
And there, I ran into a problem, which was the direct cause for my delaying this post!

I wanted to wait until the lists were updated to include last weekend's marks.
Normally, this happens on either Tuesday or Wednesday.
But not this week!
As of an hour ago, the lists were the OLD ones, or as of January 27th or 28th, NOT as of February 3rd!

Soooo, following are the numbers.
After each event (except the Relays, the 5000, and the Multis), from left to right, I put the mark I chose, how many reached at least that mark during the entire 2014 INdoor season, then how many (as of January 27th or 28th!) have reached that mark THIS year!!
I intend to update this list every week or two!!
(Although I'm relying on T&FN to do their job!!)
Men on the left, Women following on the right.

60 (6.80)               6          2          (7.40)          3          0
200 (21.50)           3          3          (24.00)        4          0
300 (34.00)           5          2          (38.00)        1          0
400 (48.00)           6          1          (54.00)        1          0
500 (1:04.00)        1          0          (1:15.00)      2         2
600 (1:20.00)        1          2          (1:33.00)      7         0
800 (1:52.00)        4          1          (2:10.00)      3         0
1000(2:27.00)       5          1          (2:50.00)      3         0
1 Mile (4:10.00)    2          0          (4:45.00)      3         1
3000 (8:28.00)      3          2          (9:40.00)      4         0
60H (7.90)            4          2          (8.40)           5         0
HJ (7-0)                4          1          (5-10)           2         1
LJ (24-0)              5           0         (20-0)           2          1
TJ (50-0)              4           2         (41-0)           3          0
PV (17-0)             3           3         (13-4)           4          6
SP (64-0)             1           1         (50-0)           4          0
WT (75-0)           3            2        (60-0)           2          0

Comments:
Remember, the left column for each gender is the FINAL 2014 TOTAL!
The next column  is as of late January, meaning there were about 6.5 weeks left in which to build on those numbers!!
Given those criteria, we see that the Men have surpassed the 2014 totals in one event, the 600.
And they are tied in 3 events, the 200, PV, and SP.

For the Women, they have surpassed the 2014 totals in the PV, and tied 2014 totals in just 1 event, the 500.

So given the fact that there are 6.5 weeks left (after those late January dates of the T&FN lists!), is this season REALLY as great as I've been saying.....or not?

Here's a few more numbers from my Book, specifically my INdoor DDD lists.

As of TODAY (February 4th, early morning!), there are a total of 81 marks dated 2015.
When I say "dated", I mean they happened from January 1st on!
So those great marks that started coming in late November and throughout December are NOT counted!!
Even though they happened in the "2015" season, they ACTUALLY happened in 2014, so are NOT counted as 2015 marks!!
(Only on my DDD's!  The earlier chart includes marks from the entire INdoor season called 2014-2015!)

Those 81 marks are divided this way:
World Men, 4
World Women, 8
US Men, 8
US Women, 15
Coll Men, 10
Coll Women, 12
HS Men, 11
HS Women, 13

Men, Total------33
Women, Total-- 48

Next post will have ALL the Records and Marks from the NB Boston meet!!
And it, as always, should be FANTASTIC!!!

See you then!!