With the Birmingham (England) IAAF World Tour meet leading the way----and yes, it was maybe the best of the five!--this INdoor season--already a record breaker in many ways--is now down to its final 3 weeks!
In my 4 core groups--World, US, Collegiate, and HS--we've seen a total of 37 records fall--so far!
What's most exciting is that we can expect several more!!
There's some State HS meets, the Collegiate Conferences, and then 2017's Championships--the NBIN, NCAA, USATF, and the European Champs!
Will the record total reach (& surpass!) FIFTY??
Meanwhile, let's see what happened on the tracks and fields of the world this past week!
While no World Records fell there, the Birmingham meet was FILLED with great marks!
Leading the way were two Brits--Sir Mo Farah and Laura Muir--but they weren't alone!
Muir--a strong candidate for World AOY--wanted the British, and maybe the World--record in the 1000.
With Jenny Meadows pacing, the hunt was on!
The first 400 went in 59.6, but she kept it honest through a 600 in 1:29.71--which stat nerds said was a British Age 35 record for Meadows!!
When Muir took over, all eyes turned to the clock!
Slowing to 2:00.56 at 800--not far off her PR!--Muir had already gapped Kate Grace, who had held tight to Muir through 4 laps!
Grimacing, arms pumping, legs almost lactated out, she crossed the line in 2:31.93, a brilliant "solo" race for this fast rising star!
It was the Meet Record and the National Record for Muir!
She's now 2nd A-T World!!
Grace faded in the last lap, but her 2:36.67 makes her 6th A-T US!
Third came Sanne Verstegen, whose 2:38.72, is the Netherlands National Record!
Zoe Buckman's 2:39.47 nabbed yet another National Record--her's for New Zealand!
Pushed OFF my World DDD was the once-golden prodigy--Mary Cain!!
Yes, her 2:35.80 from when she was a 17 year old in her Junior year of HS--is no more!
It's gone--as SHE seems to be this season!!
Sir Mo came through for his adoring fans--in what he announced was his last INdoor track race in his adopted home nation!!
But Kenya's Albert Rop tried to spoil the party!
Taking it to Farah all the way--maybe especially on the last 200--Rop lost ground when they encountered a few lapped runners.
With a first kilometer in 2:36, they were on 13:00 pace!
But they slowed a bit, to about 7:55 through 3000!
At the bell, Farah and Rop timed at 12:12--which put Farah's quest for his own (unratified, for some reason!) British record of 13:10 to the test!
Fear not!
Farah came home in 13:09.16, taking down the National Record, and the Age 33 record!
But he remains 17th A-T World!
Rop's 13:09.43 gave him the National Record of Bahrain!
And he broke Galen Rupp's Age 24 record as well!
He is 18th A-T World!
Two others ran solid times.
Morhad Amdouni's 13:10.60 gave him France's National Record, and the Age 29 record!
He's now 19th A-T World!
Soutiane Elbakkali gets the National Record of Morocco with his 13:11.18!
Mason Ferlic was the sole American, but finished far off pace with a 13:42 and change!
The Women's longest race--a 3000--went to Helen Obiri, who just nipped her own Kenyan NR with her 8:29.41.
She broke her own Age 27 record, and got the Meet Record!
But she remains 10th A-T World!
Sifan Hassan ran 8:30.76 in 2nd, getting the Netherlands National Record.
She's 12th A-T World!
Dawit Seyaum's 8:37.65 misses my World list by 0.18 seconds!
Meraf Bahta's 8:43.00 nabbed the NR of Sweden!
But Shannon Rowbury had a bad race!
She took 8th in 8:45.48!
Elaine Thompson ran just 7.20-ish in her 60 heat!
But she exploded from the blocks in the final, showing why she's maybe the favorite for the OUTdoor WC 100!
Her 6.98 gave her the Meet Record.
And it moved her from 24th A-T World, tied with 6 others, all the way to 7th, tied with 1 other!!
Second was a full 0.19 behind!!
Barbara Pierre was even worse, her 7.20 giving her 4th!
But Thompson's PR did something else!
It removed 3 women of some fame FROM the list!!
Marita Koch is gone, her 7.04 dating from 1985!
Silke Moller is gone too, from 1988.
And Carlette Guidry's 7.04 from 1995 is also gone!
Andrew Pozzi got a 0.01 PR in the 60H, his 7.43 moving him from 22nd A-T World, tied with 6 others, to 19th, tied with 3 others!
Aries Merritt was 3rd in 7.70!
I'll leave the rest of this fine meet to later.
But my pile of great marks is far from finished!!
Sydney McLaughlin finally got the HSR in the 300 she'd been chasing all year!
She blitzed a 36.82--finishing over 2 seconds ahead of 2nd!
It gives her the HSR, the Senior Class record, and the World Age 17 record!!
She moves from 2nd to 1st on the A-T HS list.
On the A-T US list, she moves from 17th to 13th!!
Also at The Armory, 4 Men from the NJ-NY Track Club went after the obscure WR in the 4XMile Relay!
Rarely run anywhere, but especially INdoors, they succeeded--but well short of expectations--and potential!
Their time of 16:12.81 did get the WR (16:16 & change), but when you trash talk about a sub-16--well, sorry, but in this man's opinion, this is maybe the WEAKEST World Record extant!!
BTW, it's also the new American Record!!
As usual, I'll report the rest by event group!
Starting with field events!
Jordan Geist is having a YEAR!
Starting with that 16 lb monster Put of 68-4, he's now taking on Ryan Crouser's more familiar HSR of 77-2.75 with the 12 pounder!
And he's getting CLOSE!!
He first PR'ed last week with 73-10.
And now, suddenly, he's out to 76-10.50, a more-than-3 foot improvement!!
With his first mark, he remained 3rd A-T HS.
But with the 2nd, he moved up one spot, to 2nd!
He's scheduled for 2 more INdoor meets this year!
I'm guessing Crouser's HSR is on its death bed!
Konrad Bukowiecki improved to 69-4.75.
This gave him a significant Age record--that of (then-) 19 year old Terry Albritton, whose 69-0.75 is no more!
A few Women got good marks, with one somewhat surprising!
Anita Marton's 62-3 took the Birmingham SP--but left Raven Saunders's early 62-8 still sitting on Top of the World!!
Dani Bunch's 60-6.50 was good, but not a PR.
The shocker was Danielle Thomas's 60-1.25!
She's a 24 year old Kent State Senior from Jamaica, whose previous best was in the 57's!!
She gets her National Record.
And this makes her 9th A-T Collegiate--though her age gives her some advantage over the Collegiate crowd!
Remember Ida Storm?
She was one of the best Collegians in the WT a few years back, throwing 73 and change!
Well, now a Pro in Sweden, she improved to 77-10.25 in a rarely-held event in Europe (or anywhere else in the World--except the US!).
She got her own National Record, and moves from 20th to 8th on the A-T World list!!
The PV, as usual, was active!
Lexi Weeks seems back in sync, as she whipped out a PV of 15-1, to tie Kaitlyn Petrillose's Soph Class record!
Ekaterina Stefanidi took the Birmingham Vault with a modest 15-2.25!
Nicole Buchler and Mary Saxer reached 14-10.25, while Megan Clark--in her first overseas comp--went out with 14-6.25!
Deakin Volz reached 18-6.75.
This makes him 21st A-T Collegiate, tied with 1 other.
Andrew Irwin went over 18-8.25.
Emanouil Karalis got over 18-4.50--still an impressive mark for a Teenager!
Speaking of which, Mondo Duplantis finally took some attempts at 19-1!!
He failed all 3, but still won the Louisiana State HS meet with ease, his 18-8.25 winning by almost 4 feet!!
Morgann LeLeux got over 14-11.50, giving her 19th A-T US!!
(Younger sister Reagann took that Louisiana State meet with a 12 footer!)
Kristen Hixson Vaulted 14-7.25!
Some female HS'ers got good PV's!
Rachel Baxter is moving towards the 14 foot barrier she's surpassed OUTdoors!
Her 13-10.50 makes her 8th A-T HS!
Makayla Linebarger's 13-5 at Simplot makes her 21st A-T HS, tied with 1 other!
Tara Davis didn't set any records, but she did win 3 events in the Simplot Games--all with good marks!
Her 8.22 in the 60H was her best mark, moving her from 15th to 8th on the A-T HS list!
But her 21-2.75 LJ--coming after her HSR of 21-11--is filed under "average"!
As is her TJ of 41-8.75--falling shy of her INdoor PR by just 0.25 inches!!
Still, THREE wins!!
An addendum to a previous report!
Clive Pullen's 56-4.75 TJ is the National Record of Jamaica!
Erik Kynard took the Birmingham HJ with an okay 7-7.
Lorraine Ugen's 22.2.25 LJ B'ham win was also just OK.
Jazmin Sawyers--a VERY talented songstress!--took 2nd with 22-0.25!
(Look for a YouTube video of one or more of her songs--her playing guitar and singing!)
A series of HS field event marks came known to me this week!
Maya Evans LJ'ed 20-3.50, making her 21st A-T HS
Lanae Tava Thomas's 20-3.25 was right behind, making her 22nd A-T HS!
Kathleen Young improved to 52-4 in the SP, moving her from 19th A-T HS, tied with 1 other, to 12th, also tied with 1 other!
Jake Wickey PR'ed in the WT with 78-0, moving him from 20th to 16th on the A-T HS list!
Shelby Moran's 59-10.25 in the WT makes her 18th A-T HS!
The 300 and 600 saw more good action!
In Ostrava, Bralon Taplin ran the 300 in 31.97.
This gave him the National Record of Grenada and the Age 24 record!
It also makes him 4th A-T World!!
Pavel Maslak missed his PR of 32.15, but his 32.19 in 2nd makes him the Age 25 record holder!
Rafal Omalko's 32.73 gives him Poland's NR, as well as the 24th spot on my A-T World list!!
Tamara Clark ran 37.81, making her 6th A-T HS!
In the Ocean Breeze, Robin Reynolds ran 37.22, making her 18th A-T US!
Also in that Staten Island venue (IMO, the most beautiful INdoor facility!!) came a good Men's 600!
Shaquille Walker took the W in 1:16.11, making him 11th A-T US!
Next came Russell Dinkins's 1:16.40, which makes him 17th A-T US!
Kyle Langford ran the 600 in 1:16.10, giving him the National Record of Great Britain!
But he still misses the World DDD by 0.03 seconds!!
Chris Geisting also sped a 1:16.10, also missing the World list by 0.03!
But he now ranks 10th A-T US!!
In a meet at Clemson, Natoya Goule improved on her National Record of Jamaica with her 1:25.35 PR!
She moves from 10th A-T World, tied with 1 other, to 8th!
Besides Pozzi's and Tara Davis's marks, the 60H saw some other decent marks, including a real shocker!!
Jackie Coward won a race in 7.97.
Christina Manning is on a roll!
Her 7.82 PR makes her 22nd A-T World, tied with 7 others!!
She's also now 8th A-T US, tied with 2 others!
She also defeated a good Birmingham field!
Her 7.83 missed her PR by 0.01, but finished well ahead of Sharika Nelvis's 7.94, Sally Pearson's 7.96, and Alina Talay's 7.98!
Klaudia Siciarz ran 8.00, but it gives her the Age 18 record!
The real surprise, however, comes from 25 year old (almost 26!) German, Pamela Dutkiewicz!!
Her pre-2017 best was an 8.07!
(Although she ran the OUTdoor 100H in 12.85 last year!)
She's now sped the 60H in 7.79!!
This suddenly makes her 16th A-T World, tied with 1 other!
And she beat a good one--Cindy Roleder!!
Roleder's PR of 7.84 misses the World list by 0.02 seconds!
Almost forgot!
Kendal Williams (No relation to the female Heptathlete!) sped 60 flat in 6.51.
He ties the Collegiate Soph Class record!
It makes him 9th A-T Collegiate, tied with 5 others!
He misses the A-T US list by a mere 0.01 seconds!
I have more stuff, which I'll divide into 3 groups--INdoor LEGAL, INdoor NOT legal (run on OT's!!), and yes, some OUTdoor marks of note!!
INdoor LEGAL
Reed Brown ran the Mile in 4:06.40 for 8th A-T HS!
Omar McLeod showed some talent in a flat race (though with banked curves!! LOL).
He sped 20.48 over 200 meters to get the Jamaica National Record!
Marqueze Washington took 2nd in 20.56!
McLeod also ran a flat 60 PR of 6.61!
Chad Zallow's 7.61 over the 60H route misses my Collegiate DDD by 0.01 seconds!!
Let's finish off Birmingham!
Ronnie Baker beat Kim Collins in the 60, 6.55 to 6.57.
Pavel Maslak took the 400 in 45.89.
Casimir Loxsom got an 800 PR of 1:46.13, making him 11th A-T US!
Ben Blankenship won the 1500 in 3:36.42!
Ryan Gregson took 2nd in 3:36.50, giving him the National Record of Australia!
Another NR fell to Sweden's Kalle Berglund's 3:37.69!
Zuzana Hejnova's 51.77 took the 400, as Shamier Little was 3rd in 52.11.
With a time SLOWER than what Laura Muir ran enroute to her 1000, Joanna Jozwik won the B'ham 800 in 2:01.02.
Melissa Bishop's 2:02.19 gave her just 4th place!!
HS Soph Arria Minor sped a 200 in 23.65, making her 15th A-T HS, tied with 1 other!
Katherine Lee's 9:37.77 over 3000 meters makes her 18th A-T HS!
But MUCH more significantly, it erases a real icon FROM the list!
Gone is Ms Lynn Jennings, her 9:42.9 dating from 1978!!
And Penn State's Women ran the DMR in 11:01.16.
It moves them from 23rd A-T School to 20th!
NOT Legal (OT's)
As per normal, the DMR stood front and center among the OT marks I feel reluctant to report, and feel are totally UNfair--especially when said marks are allowed as Qualifiers for the NCAA Champs!!
Anyway, also as per the norm, it was the monstrous 352 yard track at Notre Dame that provided the most NON-legal DMR marks!
Indiana's Women ran 10:55.94.
BYU took 2nd in 10:56.93.
LSU was 3rd in 10:57.66.
Arkansas was 4th in 10:57.93.
And Michigan (minus Erin Finn!!) was 5th in 10:58.02.
BTW, just for your curious minds, if run on a 200 meter track, both Indiana and LSU would have entered my A-T list!!
Sad.
The Men had just one non-legal DMR mark of note--Oklahoma State's 9:28.83.
But 4 more teams finished under 9:32.
Cameron Cooper lost what would have been A-T HS number 2 with his 1:49.82 in the 800!
BUT......!!!
Also in the HS realm of LOST records---
Katelynne Hart ran the 2 Mile in 10:21.41.
This WOULD have been the HS Frosh Class record, BUT.....!!
OUTdoor
Around the world, OUTdoors is HERE!!
Ryan Crouser took on Tom Walsh in his backyard (Well, not literally--but in his home country of New Zealand!!) in the SP!
His 72-4.25 was an excellent start to his WC season!
Walsh also threw a good one, at 70-5!
It gave Walsh his best mark made on NZ soil!!
Symone Mason ran a 400 in 53.26, for a good early OUTdoor HS time!
Then there's Tyrese Cooper!
He ran 3 events in Florida's Louie Bing meet!
His 400 was 45.45.
Not a PR, but still a GREAT mark, early season or not!
(Jamal Walton was a good 2nd in 46.27!)
He sped his 100 heat in 10.70, but ran "just" 10.81 in the final!
His 200 was won in "20.44".
I put quote marks there for a reason--actually TWO reasons!!
One, his time is being questioned by people on the T&FN Message Board.
They noted how close 2nd place was, and that person's time!
They also feel it might have been hand-timed!
Then there's the DQ!
Yes, he was DQ'ed for "taunting"!
At the finish line, he made a "W" with his hands and arms (a la Sir Mo's MoBot pose!), celebrating his win!
The officials called it "unsportsmanlike conduct"--and more specifically, "taunting"!
However, with the time also thrown into question, his DQ becomes moot!
Okayyyyy, we're at the end of this LONGGGGG post!
But I have some news from the Pregnancy Department!!
Sally Kipyego will miss this season to give birth--sometime this summer!
Also due for a summer birth is SP'er Christina Schwanitz!!
These announcements hold heavy significance for the 2017 season, and its WC!
Kipyego's absence leaves a hole in the 10000 field, as well as any fall Marathon she might have run!
Schwanitz's absence makes the possiblity of American Women getting TWO medals in London a real possibility!
That is, assuming Raven Saunders joins Michelle Carter on our team!
(Or Tia Brooks!)
Next week are the major Collegiate Conferences!!
One sad note!
THREE of them--the Big 10, Big 12, and the SEC--will be on OT's!!
In the lingo of the Twitterverse, I am SMH!!
See you soon!
Sunday, February 19, 2017
Sunday, February 12, 2017
A Leftover's Feast
Leftovers?
Junk mail??
HA!
Just wait till you see what I call "leftovers"--as in "left over" from my just-posted 1st part of a 2-part report!
We'll begin by returning to The Armory for more distance news!!
The Men's Two Mile--featuring Matthew Centrowitz---or so we were repeatedly told by NBC promoters!--was a cornucopia of Top 24 marks---as this rarely run distance usually is---WHEN run by a pack of elites!!
Wanting a 4:04 first Mile, they instead got a 4:07, leaving the American Record intact--as intent and as reality!
At that point, Centro already appeared out of it--and in fact he fell further back!
In a confusing finish line scene, Ben True outkicked (and outwitted?) Ryan Hill to win in 8:11.33 to Hill's 8:11.56!
What was confusing maybe wasn't!
But it seemed as though neither Hill nor True knew where to finish!!
That the tape was stretched out across the 2nd to 4th lanes (!!) instead of by the inside rail, forced True to cut over to where the tape was, while Hill was still in the 1st lane, and didn't have time to react!
Anyway, True's time makes him 3rd A-T US, and 14th A-T World!!
His 3000 split of 7:40.96 is 15th A-T US!
Forced OFF the World list was Doug Padilla's 8:15.02 from 1990!!
Hill's time moves him from 19th A-T US all the way to 4th!
He's also now 15th A-T World!
Britain's Andrew Butchart, who ran that 3:54 Mile last week, took 3rd in 8:12.53!
He's 17th A-T World!
Mo Ahmed took away the National Record of Canada with his 8:13.16.
He's 20th A-T World!
After pacesetter Lawi Lalang's 8:18.70 (Yes, he didn't DNF!) came Garrett Heath in 8:19.61, moving him from 24th A-T US to 9th!
Centrowitz finished 7th in 8:21.07, making the A-T US list in 11th place!
Morgan Pearson (Who??) is now 20th A-T US, with his time of 8:26.17!
Ben Blankenship's 8:27.10 was not a PR!
The Men's Wanamaker Mile was won in 3:53.23 by Eric Jenkins!
This makes him 10th A-T US!
His 1500 split of 3:38.44 makes him 18th A-T US!
Clay Murphy and Kyle Merber finished 2nd and 3rd, but their 1500 splits were reversed, with Murphy kicking past Merber after that point!
Murphy's Mile time of 3:54.31 gives him 16th A-T US, while Merber's 3:54.67 gives him 21st place!
But Merber's 1500 time of 3:38.61 left him 21st A-T US, while Murphy's 3:39.25 gave him 24th A-T US---temporarily!!
Until Merber's faster split knocked Murphy OFF the list!!
Another guy knocked OFF the US list was Alan Webb!
Webb's mark was from 2007!
Then we have Tony Waldrop's venerable 3:55.0 time from 1974!
Yes, he's also GONE!!
Drew Hunter PR'ed in 3:56.80 (and at 1500 enroute in 3:40.87), but ended in 7th!!
Moving OUTdoors for a minute, there was a fast Half-Marathon called "RAK".
Have no idea what that stands for!
Anyway, the great Tirunesh Dibaba finished in 5th with her 66:56 time!
The race was taken by Peres Jepchirchir in 65:06!
She passed 20K in the World Record time of 61:40!
Mary Keitany took 2nd in 65:13.
For the Men, Bedan Karoki led the way with his 59:10.
Second came Yegrem Demelash's 59:19, followed by Augustine Choge's 59:26!
Solomon Yego also got under an hour!
In Japan, Amy Cragg ran a speedy Half in 1:08:27!
I believe this makes her 4th A-T US---on "legal" courses---but I'm not sure of that!
I'll do the remainder by event group, so I'll continue with distance stuff--from 500 meters on up!
In Karlsruhe, Erik Sowinski sped an 800 in 1:46.80.
He moves from 21st A-T US, tied with 1 other, to 19th, also tied with 1 other!
In Torun, Joanna Jozwik nabbed Poland's National Record for the 800 with her 1:59.29--her 1st sub-2 INdoors---or OUTdoors!!
Her 1:27.40 split at 600 is also a NR for her!
But she misses the World list by 0.39 seconds!!
Anita Hinriksdottir took 2nd in 2:01.56!
Nicholas Kipkoech took the Men's race in 1:46.34, beating Adam Kszczot's 1:46.44, and Erik Sowinski's 1:46.84!
Bethwell Birgen took the 1500 in 3:37.63.
In the Ocean Breeze, Siofria Buttner took the Mile in 4:33.16, missing the Collegiate list by 0.12 seconds!
At BU, Lauren Johnson beat Sasha Gollish in the 1000, 2:40.63 to 2:40.99.
In another Men's Mile at Millrose, Christian Soratos sped a 3:54.23!
This makes him 14th A-T US.
His 1500 split of 3:38.27 also gives him 14th A-T US!
DJ Principe ended in 5th with his 4:02.96!
In the 1000, Brannon Kidder's kick prevailed in 2:19.92 over Cazimir Loxsom's 2:21.06!
HS'er Brandon McGorty was 7th in 2:24.13.
He moves from 13th A-T HS to 6th!
Vernon Norwood took a quick 500 at Millrose, timed in 1:00.11.
He beat Brycen Spratling's 1:00.90, and Bershawn Jackson's 1:01.17!
The Women's 3000 was won by Kate Van Buskirk's 8:52.08.
Stephanie Garcia ran 8:53.48, while Tori Gerlach ran 8:54.61.
The Boy's HS Mile was good.
Noah Affolder's 4:07.34 makes him 12th A-T HS, and his 1500 split of 3:50.87 gives him 12th A-T HS.
Brodey Hasty was 2nd in 4:08.04, for 19th A-T HS.
Dalton Hengst was next in 4:08.99.
But the latter pair's 1500's were reversed!
Hengst split 3:52.05, making him 18th A-T HS, while Hasty's 3:52.44 gives him 20th A-T HS!
Don't know if Curtis Beach will continue as a Decathlete, or turn to running full time!
But he's improving in the latter, as his 600 of 1:16.61 proves!
He's now 17th A-T US!!
Also in the distance genre, but on Oversize Tracks, are the following---
In Seattle, Ed Cheserek ran a 5000 in 13:32.59, with Colby Gilbert following in 13:34.85!
Katie Rainsberger took the Seattle 3000 in a good 9:01.21!
Too bad it was for naught, Record Book-wise!!
Dani Jones took 2nd in 9:02.22.
Ten finished under 9:07, and 14 under 9:10!!
Danae Rivers ran a useless 4:32.55, while Lopez Lomong and Evan Jager did the same with their matching set of 3:56.55 Miles!!
There were 9 sub-4's!
In the SPIRE, Erin Finn ran an OT 5000 in 15:34.36!
Let's move to field events!
Besides Mondo Duplantis's latest HSR (See my earlier post!), Chris Nilsen took over the Collegiate PV lead with his PR of 18-8.25!
He missed the Frosh Class record by one-half inch!
But he's 12th A-T Collegiate, tied with 1 other!
The Millrose Women's event saw Ekaterina Stefanidi beating Sandi Morris, with the Greek reaching 15-9.75!
Morris tried passing tactics, but her attempts at 16-1.75 failed.
She ended with 15-5.75.
Katie Nageotte got a quarter-inch INdoor PR of 15-1.75 in 3rd!
She remains 11th A-T US, but she now isn't tied with anyone!
In the Tyson meet, Arkansas's Women's PV Factory took 1st, 2nd, and 4th!
Tori and Lexi Weeks had matching 14-7.25's, but Tori prevailed.
Desiree Freier showed good form, reaching 14-3.25 in 4th!
Emily Grove's 14-5.25 was 3rd, with Olivia Gruver matching Freier's mark in 5th!
Other marks included---
Raven Saunders SP'ing 61-0.
Yanis David suddenly a Collegiate TJ factor, her 45-8.50 making her 12th A-T Collegiate!
She's a Florida Soph!
Shendia Lawrence jumped 45-1.50, making her 19th A-T Collegiate, tied with 1 other!
(I hope these two marks aren't just TFRSS fuck-ups!! LOL)
Alina McDonald PV'ed 14-3.25 in Nashville.
In the Tyson meet, Jamaica's Clive Pullen took the Collegiate TJ lead with his 56-4.75.
This makes him 11th A-T Collegiate!
Also at Tyson, JaCorian Duffield HJ'ed 7-6.50, while Clayton Brown reached 7-4.25!
Jared Kern's 67-2 took over the Collegiate SP lead!
Becky Arbiv PV'ed 13-7.
She moves from 18th A-T HS to 14th, tied with 1 other!
Carson Dingler's 13-6 moves her from 21st A-T HS, tied with 6 others, to 18th, where she's tied with 1 other!
Bronson Osborn threw the 16 pound SP out 59-5.75!
OUTdoors, Osborn threw the same weight implement 58-10!!
Also OUTdoors, Robbie Otal got the earliest-ever 200-plus DT--reaching 201-7!
Tyra Gittens LJ'ed 20-11.50, making her 5th A-T HS!!
In Torun, Nicole Buchler won with a 15-1 PV.
Logan Cunningham PV'ed 18-4.50.
In the Dallas meet, Tripp Piperi PR'ed with a 72-5 SP, but he remains 4th A-T HS!
In Berlin's LJ, Ivana Spanovic leapt 22-6.50!
Maggie Ewen's getting better!
Her SP measure of 59-5.50 makes her 11th A-T Collegiate!
She misses the US list by 1.25 inches!
She also threw the Weight 70-1.
And now to the short stuff!!
And, bless those who lose good marks on OT's, but I'll start with Brian Herron's OT 400 of 47.24, which WOULD make my HS DDD---if legal!!
Ronnie Baker ran the fastest 60 of the season, his 6.46 PR moving him from 17th A-T World, tied with 7 others, to 12th, where he's tied with 5 others!!
On the US list, he moves from 11th, tied with 3 others, to 7th, tied with 4 others!
Orlando Ortega sped the 60H in 7.48 in Torun.
Barbara Pierre took the Torun 60 in 7.11, after a 7.13 heat.
Bralon Taplin took the 400 in 45.59.
Mikiah Brisco's 7.98 in the Tyson 60H makes her 19th A-T Collegiate, tied with 5 others!
She also took 2nd in the 60 flat with her 7.22.
Grant Holloway ran the 60H in 7.58, just 0.01 off the Frosh Class standard!
But he makes 16th A-T Collegiate, tied with 3 others!
Daryll Haraway sped 60 flat in 6.59.
Jouranne Olivier ran the same in 7.19.
In the Millrose meet, Dezerea Bryant took the flat 60 in 7.12, with Morolake Akinosun 2nd in 7.17.
Clayton Vaughn edged out Mike Rodgers in 6.62.
Omar McLeod and Phylicia George took the Millrose 60H races with respective times of 7.46 and 7.98.
In the Don Kirby meet, Jaylen Bacon ran 6.59, while Rai Benjamin took the 200 in 20.76.
The Tyson meet had a deep Men's 200!
Just'n Thymes prevailed in 20.47, but he misses the Collegiate DDD by 0.01 seconds!
In 2nd & 3rd came Rondel Sorrillo and Nathaneel Mitchell-Blake, both timed in 20.49.
In 4th was stud Frosh Michael Norman, eeking out an 0.01 PR of 20.75!
Sage Watson took the Don Kirby 400 in 52.00.
Some okay Relay action happened too!
At Clemson, as briefly noted in my earlier post, Texas A&M's Women ran the 4X400 in 3:29.74!
That's where Jazmin Fray--brand new CR holder in the 800--ran her 51.9 leg just one hour after that CR!!
A&M missed their School record by 0.02 seconds!!
Alabama took 2nd in 3:30.10, making them 9th A-T School!!
At Tyson, Texas's Men ran the 4X400 in 3:04.88.
They move from 14th A-T School, tied with 1 other, to 11th!
Texas Tech's 3:05.49 moves them from 19th A-T School to 17th!
And Iowa's time of 3:05.62 makes them 19th A-T School, tied with 1 other!
Also from Tyson--
Michael Cherry ran the 400 in 45.84.
Kendall Ellis ran the 400 in 52.13.
In a separate race, Chrisann Gordon sped 51.71, just 0.02 seconds off her PR!
Chrishuna Williams was 2nd in 52.02.
Remember me mentioning Candace Hill's 53.05 3rd place finish in the Clemson 400 behind Shakima Wimbley's winner?
Wimbley ran 51.53, making her 16th A-T Collegiate, and 19th A-T US!!
I want to end this post with some marks worth remaining awake for, so first let me add another OT mark or 2.
From Ames, Iowa's OT came Karissa Schweizer's 9:06.60 3000, and an 800 that saw Shea Collinsworth's 2:01.42 prevail over Ailiyah Miller's 2:02.89.
Returning yet again to Millrose, there was a HOT Women's 300!!
Just as with the more successful effort by Sammy Watson in the 800 (See my earlier post!), Sydney McLaughlin was also looking for a fast time--but in this 300!
She DID get a slight PR--by 0.02 seconds--but her 37.09 gave her just 4th place in a field of Professionals!!
Shaunae Miller ran 35.71, moving her from 5th A-T World to 3rd, where she's tied with 1 other!
(Her tie is with Quanera Hayes, who ran her 35.71 earlier this season!)
She got the Meet Record, and the Age 22 record!
Ashley Spencer took 2nd in 36.27.
She gets the Age 23 record!
She's 3rd A-T US, and 7th A-T World!
Natasha Hastings's 36.88 in 3rd gets her the Age 30 record!
Then came McLaughlin's 37.09 in 4th!
She remains 2nd A-T HS!
But, because of Spencer's entrance to the US list, McLaughlin is moved DOWN from 16th to 17th!!
The Nitro series ended---and good riddance to it!
The results emanating from it were ridiculous!
(In another of those 3 minute races, one couple's winning total was 2765 meters!! Think about this for a second! In 3:00, could a woman run, say, 1265 meters, while a man ran the other 1500?? In THREE MINUTES???)
Maybe it was just the results that were screwed up, but I'm of the opinion---DESPITE the sexy presence of Usain Bolt and Gen Gen LaCaze---that this is one idea ready for the DUMPSTER!!
Over and OUT of here!!
P.S.
Despite the IAAF meet in Birmingham, next weekend looks to be a lot quieter than THIS week was!!
Then again, maybe not so much!
See ya!
Junk mail??
HA!
Just wait till you see what I call "leftovers"--as in "left over" from my just-posted 1st part of a 2-part report!
We'll begin by returning to The Armory for more distance news!!
The Men's Two Mile--featuring Matthew Centrowitz---or so we were repeatedly told by NBC promoters!--was a cornucopia of Top 24 marks---as this rarely run distance usually is---WHEN run by a pack of elites!!
Wanting a 4:04 first Mile, they instead got a 4:07, leaving the American Record intact--as intent and as reality!
At that point, Centro already appeared out of it--and in fact he fell further back!
In a confusing finish line scene, Ben True outkicked (and outwitted?) Ryan Hill to win in 8:11.33 to Hill's 8:11.56!
What was confusing maybe wasn't!
But it seemed as though neither Hill nor True knew where to finish!!
That the tape was stretched out across the 2nd to 4th lanes (!!) instead of by the inside rail, forced True to cut over to where the tape was, while Hill was still in the 1st lane, and didn't have time to react!
Anyway, True's time makes him 3rd A-T US, and 14th A-T World!!
His 3000 split of 7:40.96 is 15th A-T US!
Forced OFF the World list was Doug Padilla's 8:15.02 from 1990!!
Hill's time moves him from 19th A-T US all the way to 4th!
He's also now 15th A-T World!
Britain's Andrew Butchart, who ran that 3:54 Mile last week, took 3rd in 8:12.53!
He's 17th A-T World!
Mo Ahmed took away the National Record of Canada with his 8:13.16.
He's 20th A-T World!
After pacesetter Lawi Lalang's 8:18.70 (Yes, he didn't DNF!) came Garrett Heath in 8:19.61, moving him from 24th A-T US to 9th!
Centrowitz finished 7th in 8:21.07, making the A-T US list in 11th place!
Morgan Pearson (Who??) is now 20th A-T US, with his time of 8:26.17!
Ben Blankenship's 8:27.10 was not a PR!
The Men's Wanamaker Mile was won in 3:53.23 by Eric Jenkins!
This makes him 10th A-T US!
His 1500 split of 3:38.44 makes him 18th A-T US!
Clay Murphy and Kyle Merber finished 2nd and 3rd, but their 1500 splits were reversed, with Murphy kicking past Merber after that point!
Murphy's Mile time of 3:54.31 gives him 16th A-T US, while Merber's 3:54.67 gives him 21st place!
But Merber's 1500 time of 3:38.61 left him 21st A-T US, while Murphy's 3:39.25 gave him 24th A-T US---temporarily!!
Until Merber's faster split knocked Murphy OFF the list!!
Another guy knocked OFF the US list was Alan Webb!
Webb's mark was from 2007!
Then we have Tony Waldrop's venerable 3:55.0 time from 1974!
Yes, he's also GONE!!
Drew Hunter PR'ed in 3:56.80 (and at 1500 enroute in 3:40.87), but ended in 7th!!
Moving OUTdoors for a minute, there was a fast Half-Marathon called "RAK".
Have no idea what that stands for!
Anyway, the great Tirunesh Dibaba finished in 5th with her 66:56 time!
The race was taken by Peres Jepchirchir in 65:06!
She passed 20K in the World Record time of 61:40!
Mary Keitany took 2nd in 65:13.
For the Men, Bedan Karoki led the way with his 59:10.
Second came Yegrem Demelash's 59:19, followed by Augustine Choge's 59:26!
Solomon Yego also got under an hour!
In Japan, Amy Cragg ran a speedy Half in 1:08:27!
I believe this makes her 4th A-T US---on "legal" courses---but I'm not sure of that!
I'll do the remainder by event group, so I'll continue with distance stuff--from 500 meters on up!
In Karlsruhe, Erik Sowinski sped an 800 in 1:46.80.
He moves from 21st A-T US, tied with 1 other, to 19th, also tied with 1 other!
In Torun, Joanna Jozwik nabbed Poland's National Record for the 800 with her 1:59.29--her 1st sub-2 INdoors---or OUTdoors!!
Her 1:27.40 split at 600 is also a NR for her!
But she misses the World list by 0.39 seconds!!
Anita Hinriksdottir took 2nd in 2:01.56!
Nicholas Kipkoech took the Men's race in 1:46.34, beating Adam Kszczot's 1:46.44, and Erik Sowinski's 1:46.84!
Bethwell Birgen took the 1500 in 3:37.63.
In the Ocean Breeze, Siofria Buttner took the Mile in 4:33.16, missing the Collegiate list by 0.12 seconds!
At BU, Lauren Johnson beat Sasha Gollish in the 1000, 2:40.63 to 2:40.99.
In another Men's Mile at Millrose, Christian Soratos sped a 3:54.23!
This makes him 14th A-T US.
His 1500 split of 3:38.27 also gives him 14th A-T US!
DJ Principe ended in 5th with his 4:02.96!
In the 1000, Brannon Kidder's kick prevailed in 2:19.92 over Cazimir Loxsom's 2:21.06!
HS'er Brandon McGorty was 7th in 2:24.13.
He moves from 13th A-T HS to 6th!
Vernon Norwood took a quick 500 at Millrose, timed in 1:00.11.
He beat Brycen Spratling's 1:00.90, and Bershawn Jackson's 1:01.17!
The Women's 3000 was won by Kate Van Buskirk's 8:52.08.
Stephanie Garcia ran 8:53.48, while Tori Gerlach ran 8:54.61.
The Boy's HS Mile was good.
Noah Affolder's 4:07.34 makes him 12th A-T HS, and his 1500 split of 3:50.87 gives him 12th A-T HS.
Brodey Hasty was 2nd in 4:08.04, for 19th A-T HS.
Dalton Hengst was next in 4:08.99.
But the latter pair's 1500's were reversed!
Hengst split 3:52.05, making him 18th A-T HS, while Hasty's 3:52.44 gives him 20th A-T HS!
Don't know if Curtis Beach will continue as a Decathlete, or turn to running full time!
But he's improving in the latter, as his 600 of 1:16.61 proves!
He's now 17th A-T US!!
Also in the distance genre, but on Oversize Tracks, are the following---
In Seattle, Ed Cheserek ran a 5000 in 13:32.59, with Colby Gilbert following in 13:34.85!
Katie Rainsberger took the Seattle 3000 in a good 9:01.21!
Too bad it was for naught, Record Book-wise!!
Dani Jones took 2nd in 9:02.22.
Ten finished under 9:07, and 14 under 9:10!!
Danae Rivers ran a useless 4:32.55, while Lopez Lomong and Evan Jager did the same with their matching set of 3:56.55 Miles!!
There were 9 sub-4's!
In the SPIRE, Erin Finn ran an OT 5000 in 15:34.36!
Let's move to field events!
Besides Mondo Duplantis's latest HSR (See my earlier post!), Chris Nilsen took over the Collegiate PV lead with his PR of 18-8.25!
He missed the Frosh Class record by one-half inch!
But he's 12th A-T Collegiate, tied with 1 other!
The Millrose Women's event saw Ekaterina Stefanidi beating Sandi Morris, with the Greek reaching 15-9.75!
Morris tried passing tactics, but her attempts at 16-1.75 failed.
She ended with 15-5.75.
Katie Nageotte got a quarter-inch INdoor PR of 15-1.75 in 3rd!
She remains 11th A-T US, but she now isn't tied with anyone!
In the Tyson meet, Arkansas's Women's PV Factory took 1st, 2nd, and 4th!
Tori and Lexi Weeks had matching 14-7.25's, but Tori prevailed.
Desiree Freier showed good form, reaching 14-3.25 in 4th!
Emily Grove's 14-5.25 was 3rd, with Olivia Gruver matching Freier's mark in 5th!
Other marks included---
Raven Saunders SP'ing 61-0.
Yanis David suddenly a Collegiate TJ factor, her 45-8.50 making her 12th A-T Collegiate!
She's a Florida Soph!
Shendia Lawrence jumped 45-1.50, making her 19th A-T Collegiate, tied with 1 other!
(I hope these two marks aren't just TFRSS fuck-ups!! LOL)
Alina McDonald PV'ed 14-3.25 in Nashville.
In the Tyson meet, Jamaica's Clive Pullen took the Collegiate TJ lead with his 56-4.75.
This makes him 11th A-T Collegiate!
Also at Tyson, JaCorian Duffield HJ'ed 7-6.50, while Clayton Brown reached 7-4.25!
Jared Kern's 67-2 took over the Collegiate SP lead!
Becky Arbiv PV'ed 13-7.
She moves from 18th A-T HS to 14th, tied with 1 other!
Carson Dingler's 13-6 moves her from 21st A-T HS, tied with 6 others, to 18th, where she's tied with 1 other!
Bronson Osborn threw the 16 pound SP out 59-5.75!
OUTdoors, Osborn threw the same weight implement 58-10!!
Also OUTdoors, Robbie Otal got the earliest-ever 200-plus DT--reaching 201-7!
Tyra Gittens LJ'ed 20-11.50, making her 5th A-T HS!!
In Torun, Nicole Buchler won with a 15-1 PV.
Logan Cunningham PV'ed 18-4.50.
In the Dallas meet, Tripp Piperi PR'ed with a 72-5 SP, but he remains 4th A-T HS!
In Berlin's LJ, Ivana Spanovic leapt 22-6.50!
Maggie Ewen's getting better!
Her SP measure of 59-5.50 makes her 11th A-T Collegiate!
She misses the US list by 1.25 inches!
She also threw the Weight 70-1.
And now to the short stuff!!
And, bless those who lose good marks on OT's, but I'll start with Brian Herron's OT 400 of 47.24, which WOULD make my HS DDD---if legal!!
Ronnie Baker ran the fastest 60 of the season, his 6.46 PR moving him from 17th A-T World, tied with 7 others, to 12th, where he's tied with 5 others!!
On the US list, he moves from 11th, tied with 3 others, to 7th, tied with 4 others!
Orlando Ortega sped the 60H in 7.48 in Torun.
Barbara Pierre took the Torun 60 in 7.11, after a 7.13 heat.
Bralon Taplin took the 400 in 45.59.
Mikiah Brisco's 7.98 in the Tyson 60H makes her 19th A-T Collegiate, tied with 5 others!
She also took 2nd in the 60 flat with her 7.22.
Grant Holloway ran the 60H in 7.58, just 0.01 off the Frosh Class standard!
But he makes 16th A-T Collegiate, tied with 3 others!
Daryll Haraway sped 60 flat in 6.59.
Jouranne Olivier ran the same in 7.19.
In the Millrose meet, Dezerea Bryant took the flat 60 in 7.12, with Morolake Akinosun 2nd in 7.17.
Clayton Vaughn edged out Mike Rodgers in 6.62.
Omar McLeod and Phylicia George took the Millrose 60H races with respective times of 7.46 and 7.98.
In the Don Kirby meet, Jaylen Bacon ran 6.59, while Rai Benjamin took the 200 in 20.76.
The Tyson meet had a deep Men's 200!
Just'n Thymes prevailed in 20.47, but he misses the Collegiate DDD by 0.01 seconds!
In 2nd & 3rd came Rondel Sorrillo and Nathaneel Mitchell-Blake, both timed in 20.49.
In 4th was stud Frosh Michael Norman, eeking out an 0.01 PR of 20.75!
Sage Watson took the Don Kirby 400 in 52.00.
Some okay Relay action happened too!
At Clemson, as briefly noted in my earlier post, Texas A&M's Women ran the 4X400 in 3:29.74!
That's where Jazmin Fray--brand new CR holder in the 800--ran her 51.9 leg just one hour after that CR!!
A&M missed their School record by 0.02 seconds!!
Alabama took 2nd in 3:30.10, making them 9th A-T School!!
At Tyson, Texas's Men ran the 4X400 in 3:04.88.
They move from 14th A-T School, tied with 1 other, to 11th!
Texas Tech's 3:05.49 moves them from 19th A-T School to 17th!
And Iowa's time of 3:05.62 makes them 19th A-T School, tied with 1 other!
Also from Tyson--
Michael Cherry ran the 400 in 45.84.
Kendall Ellis ran the 400 in 52.13.
In a separate race, Chrisann Gordon sped 51.71, just 0.02 seconds off her PR!
Chrishuna Williams was 2nd in 52.02.
Remember me mentioning Candace Hill's 53.05 3rd place finish in the Clemson 400 behind Shakima Wimbley's winner?
Wimbley ran 51.53, making her 16th A-T Collegiate, and 19th A-T US!!
I want to end this post with some marks worth remaining awake for, so first let me add another OT mark or 2.
From Ames, Iowa's OT came Karissa Schweizer's 9:06.60 3000, and an 800 that saw Shea Collinsworth's 2:01.42 prevail over Ailiyah Miller's 2:02.89.
Returning yet again to Millrose, there was a HOT Women's 300!!
Just as with the more successful effort by Sammy Watson in the 800 (See my earlier post!), Sydney McLaughlin was also looking for a fast time--but in this 300!
She DID get a slight PR--by 0.02 seconds--but her 37.09 gave her just 4th place in a field of Professionals!!
Shaunae Miller ran 35.71, moving her from 5th A-T World to 3rd, where she's tied with 1 other!
(Her tie is with Quanera Hayes, who ran her 35.71 earlier this season!)
She got the Meet Record, and the Age 22 record!
Ashley Spencer took 2nd in 36.27.
She gets the Age 23 record!
She's 3rd A-T US, and 7th A-T World!
Natasha Hastings's 36.88 in 3rd gets her the Age 30 record!
Then came McLaughlin's 37.09 in 4th!
She remains 2nd A-T HS!
But, because of Spencer's entrance to the US list, McLaughlin is moved DOWN from 16th to 17th!!
The Nitro series ended---and good riddance to it!
The results emanating from it were ridiculous!
(In another of those 3 minute races, one couple's winning total was 2765 meters!! Think about this for a second! In 3:00, could a woman run, say, 1265 meters, while a man ran the other 1500?? In THREE MINUTES???)
Maybe it was just the results that were screwed up, but I'm of the opinion---DESPITE the sexy presence of Usain Bolt and Gen Gen LaCaze---that this is one idea ready for the DUMPSTER!!
Over and OUT of here!!
P.S.
Despite the IAAF meet in Birmingham, next weekend looks to be a lot quieter than THIS week was!!
Then again, maybe not so much!
See ya!
Want Records? I Got 'Em!
Millrose was supposed to be the main attraction of the week!
And it produced!
But so did several other venues--and athletes!
I have a mountain of material, so let's go to The Armory!
That Women's 800!
In a sensational race, Ajee Wilson followed the rabbit through a 57.4 first 400, with Charlene Lipsey right behind, and even HS'er Sammy Watson at 58.2.
The train continued through a quick 600 in the 1:27's, with Watson at 1:29, and not dying.
It was a tight race for the front pair, but stoic & steady Wilson kept Lipsey heeled.
That fast pace, and the tight race brought home TWO women UNDER the American Record of Nicole Teter, on the books since 2002!
Wilson ran 1:58.27, collecting the Meet Record as well as the AR.
She moves from 11th A-T US to 1st!
The last woman to make the World list was in 2012.
And the only 2 Americans to make that list were Teter and Mary Slaney, who held the 24th spot!
No more!!
Slaney is OFF the World list, her 1:58.9 dating from 1980!
Wilson grabs 13th A-T World!
Lipsey finished strong, timed in 1:58.64, becoming 2nd A-T US, and 19th A-T World!
Far back in 3rd came Lynsey Sharp, then Cecilia Barowski, having a good year!
Her 2:01.52 gave her 23rd A-T US, tied with 1 other!
And she knocked two name vets OFF the list!
Regina Jacobs and Amy Wickus are GONE, Jacobs from 2000, and Wickus from the mid-90's!
And then came Ms Watson!
Watching the race on NBC, the camera focused on the first 2, I sat screaming at my screen---Come on, Sammy, GO!!
And she did, JUST nipping Mary Decker Slaney's venerable, iconic, and most historic HSR of 2:01.8, dating from 1974!!
Her 2:01.78 (WHEW!!) gave her the Senior Class Record as well.
She moves from 3rd to 1st on the A-T HS list!
Her splits were 58.20 and 63.58!
The Millrose Women's Mile was fast too, but so was a Women's Mile the day before at Boston University!!
Let's explore both!
In a totally unexpected race, 3 of the best US distance runners took to BU's track!
At the end, it was Shelby Houlihan's scintellating kick that led to a rewritten Record Book!
Her 4:24.16 defeated Colleen Quigley and Rachel Schneider!
She's 5th A-T US, and 18th A-T World!
Quigley's 4:24.88 makes her 7th A-T US, and 23rd A-T World!
Schneider's 4:25.62--bettering her 4:28.03 PR from last week!--moves her from 20th A-T US to 8th!!
Megan Krumpoch's 4:32.03 was a solid 4th!
And knocked FROM the list is Francie Larrieu, my first female runner crush!!
Her 4:29.5 dated from 1975!!
Now let's see what FURTHER damage the Millrose race did!!
In a race supposedly set up for Shannon Rowbury to again chase the American Record, there were--um--surprises!
First, the pace was off by 2 seconds at the half--2:11 to the wanted 2:09!
Second, new NOP member and Rowbury training partner Sifan Hassan taught Shannon a lesson or two!
Pulling away with over 2 laps to go, Hassan gapped Rowbury, while Kate Grace smelled blood!
Sprinting to tthe tape, Hassan's 4:19.89 made her 4th A-T World!
She also collected the Netherlands National Record, the Millrose Meet Record, and the Age 24 record!
Grace kicked past Rowbury to take 2nd in a BIG PR of 4:22.93.
She got the Age 28 record, while becoming 8th A-T World, and 4th A-T US!!
Rowbury finished in 4:23.05, short of her PR, and AGAIN failing to take down Slaney's iconic standard!
Heather Kampf followed in 4:28.39
Then came Dominique Scott-Erfurd's 4:28.47 National Record of South Africa!!
Kaela Edwards had said in a pre-meet interview that she wanted the Collegiate Record--and she went for it!
But her 4:28.75 wasn't really close, although she moves from 16th A-T Collegiate to 7th!!
Nicole Sifuentes reliably came next, followed by another Collegian, Elinor Purrier!
Purrier's PR of 4:29.44 wasn't enough to move her out of 8th A-T Collegiate!
Alexa Efraimson--one week away from her 20th birthday--ran 4:29.54.
One of my common rants has to do with the failure of timers to time 1500's enroute to Miles!
While Millrose came through, as expected, BU did not!!
Thus, 3 CERTAIN PR's for the 3 BU women mentioned above were lost to history!!
(Unless they suddenly turn up, in which case I'll do my usual mea culpa!! LOL)
For the Millrose group, however, Hassan's 1500 wasn't a PR.
As told above, Grace kicked past Rowbury late in the race!
So Rowbury had a faster 1500 split--4:04.56--which moves her up one spot on the US list, from 4th to 3rd!
Grace's 4:04.86 gives her 5th A-T US!
Collegiate runners rarely get 1500 splits---or race open 1500's!---so Edwards's 4:11.00 makes her 3rd A-T Collegiate.
Purrier's 4:12.35 split gives her 9th A-T Collegiate!!
In keeping with this post's title's theme, let's see what Genzebe Dibaba has been up to!
Would you believe ANOTHER World Record---this time over the 2000 meters distance!
In what amounted to a solo time trial (2 women finished about 30 seconds back!) in Spain, Dibaba cruised around the track at a steady clip, her 5:23.75 chopping almost 7 seconds from Gabriela Szabo's 5:30.53 WR of 1998!
Her splits were 2:42.65 and 2:41.10 for each kilometer!
(Her time is faster than Sonia O'Sullivan's OUTdoor WR--but let's not get into that!!)
Genzebe gets her own Ethiopian National Record, and the Age 25 record!
In fact, this race took place on her LAST day as a 25 year old!!
She moves from 2nd to 1st on the A-T World list!!
She went after her own 1500 WR too, this time in the IAAF World Tour meet in Torun, Poland.
Well, she WANTED to go after it---but her pacer wasn't up to the task!
Instead, Dibaba had to settle for a mere 3:58.80--which still gave her the Age 26 record!
(She ran that two days after turning 26!)
In second came Axumawit Embaye's 4:04.95!
Two Collegiate Records fell in separate meets!
In the altitude-aided Don Kirby affair in Albuquerque, Hannah Cunliffe sped 60 meters in 7.07 to take down Ramona Burchell's 7.08 from 2015!
I have a little story to go with that!
Seeing the time on Twitter, I instantly noted it was a CR!
(Kiss me--I'm an expert!! LOL)
BUT---all the tweets I saw---from reputable sources---ALL said it was an "All-Conditions" best!!
They made NO mention of it being an outright Collegiate Record--no strings attached!!
I sent a few tweets to these sources, but to no avail!
That is, until a tweet from TFCCCA (Coaches Association) finally said the same!!
The falsehood emanated from the method TFRSS uses to "convert" times (from flat to banked tracks, and for altitude), where they "assigned" a time of 7.09 to Cunliffe, adding 0.02 to her REAL Collegiate Record!!
Confusion, confusion!!
Cunliffe also gets the Junior Class record, the World-leader, and the Age 21 record!!
She moves from 5th A-T Collegiate, tied with 2 others, to the top!
She also moves from 21st A-T US, tied with 4 others, to 11th, where she's tied with 1 other!
But she wasn't done!
She added a 22.60 200, which makes her 11th A-T Collegiate, tied with 1 other!
She's now 11th A-T US, tied with 1 other!
Ariana Washington was 2nd, her 22.80 making her 24th A-T Collegiate, tied with 1 other.
As well, she's now 22nd A-T US!
The other CR came out of the blue from Jazmin Fray!
In the Clemson meet, Fray--who surprised with that 2:43.15 1000 back in December--ran a solo 2:00.69 to claim the CR for 800 meters!
Second was over 4 seconds back!
Her splits were 58.96 and 61.73!
She also gets the Collegiate Soph Class record, and adds 17th A-T US to her collection of goodies!
Then--about an hour later--she ran a remarkable 51.9 as 3rd leg of her Texas A&M team's 4X400 Relay!
I'd say she has a sub-2:00 in her, wouldn't you??
The Millrose Women's 500 produced another American Record!!
In a 500 that saw the return of Alysia Montano (with flowers on her shoes, as well as in her hair!--she's currently sponsorless!!), Courtney Okolo sped the distance in 1:07.34, making her 3rd A-T World, as best as I can tell!
(I don't have lists for the 500!)
Montano finished in 1:09.55, just ahead of Delilah Muhammad's 1:09.66!
Okolo also gets the Meet Record!
A pair of HSR's fell in field events!
In a "Boy's" PV competition at the Millrose meet, Mondo Duplantis made 18-2.50, 18-8.25, then his latest HSR of 18-10.25 on first tries!
He declined to go further--the 19 foot barrier now less than two inches away!!
(His father Greg's OUTdoor PR is 19-0.25, so we could soon see the first-ever Father-Son combo of 19 footers---even though I never compare INdoor to OUTdoor marks!)
He broke his own HSR, as well as his own Junior Class record, and Age 17 record!!
Tara Davis--also known as a good hurdler and TJ'er--got another "ancient" HSR--this one now previously owned by one Carol Lewis, her LJ mark of 21-7.25 dating from 1981!!
Davis's 21-11 also got Lewis's Senior Class record!!
She moves from 7th A-T HS to 1st.
And she becomes 20th A-T US, tied with 1 other!!
But wait, I'm not finished!!
She also gets a record held by the venerable Heike Drechsler, whose Olympic-sized career of over 20 years is historic to the nth degree!!
Davis took the Age 17 record away from Drechsler!
However, she'll have to improve by a foot to get Drechsler's OUTdoor Age 17 record!
Davis will only have until her 18th birthday on May 20th!!
(PAUSE)
Let me explain a bit what I'm doing here!
I'd WANTED to divide my report into two posts---one entirely for the Millrose meet, the other for all the rest of my pile of great records & marks!
But with this week producing so MANY Records---across the spectrum!---I decided to go with the major records in the first post---this one!---saving all the rest for a second post!!
And that's basically what I'm doing!
Don't fret, though, because what I'll include in my 2nd post will be enough to sate the appetites of starving dieters!!
I'll continue with more records now!
Several Class Records fell---in both the Collegiate and HS realms!
Trey Knight came from the skies to tear apart the HS Frosh Class record in the Weight Throw!
His 71-3.50 added almost 6 feet to the old mark!!
Katelyn Tuohy removed one of Mary Cain's Class Records--in the 1000!
She gets Cain's Frosh Class mark---by about three seconds!!
And becomes 17th A-T HS with her time of 2:47.86!!
Gleb Gudorev continues to amaze!
Remember, he's the dude who came to Kansas State from Europe, and suddenly emerged as a threat to WT'ers everywhere!!
His 76-11 added about 18 inches to his recent PR, breaking his own Frosh Class record!
He moves from 21st A-T Collegiate to 16th!
And he misses the World DDD by less than 5 inches!!
Fred Kerley ran 45.02 for 400 meters in the Clemson meet to nab the Senior Class record, as well as the Age 21 record!!
He's now 4th A-T Collegiate.
He's also 4th A-T US, tied with 1 other!
And he's 5th A-T World, also tied with 1 other!!
Keturah Orji is still two feet shy of her Rio OUTdoor PR, but her 46-3.25 TJ claims the Junior Class record!!
She fell just 0.75 inches shy of her INdoor PR!!
Tyrese Cooper becomes more and more unbelievable every time he steps on a track!!
In his latest attack on the HS record book, he came THIS close to getting the HSR in the 400 meters!!
The 45.92 by Elzie Coleman has been the HSR only since 2004, but it seems much older!!
(Maybe because no one's come closer than 46.57 since then---until Cooper came on the scene!)
Well, now that Cooper has run 46.01--taking 2nd in a race at the Tyson Invite--Coleman's record is on Death Row!!
He gets the Soph Class record, and becomes 2nd A-T HS!!
But this phenom wasn't done!!
Finishing 3rd behind super vet Wallace Spearmon, Cooper ran the 200 in 21.12, finally getting the Soph Class record that eluded him last week!!
He moves from 15th A-T HS , tied with 3 others, to 11th!
Spearmon won with his 20.69!
Lauren Harris IS the best female HS Walker extant!
She again broke a HSR--this time for the 1500 meters!
Her time was a nifty 6:17.59!!
(To give you some idea of this young lady's talent--and potential!!--the great US Walkster Maria Michta-Coffey took the Millrose Mile in 6:31 and change!! Oh yes, Michta-Coffey mentors Harris!!)
Harris got the Mile Walk record last year!!
Since this post is mainly about Records, I'll close with one for the HS PRO division!!
Candace Hill--who turned 18 yesterday!--got her THIRD record in my self-devised Record Section!
While losing the race to Shakima Wimbley (more on her in the next post!), Hill's 4th place time of 53.05 claimed the 400 meter HS PRO mark!!
And the HS PRO Senior Class record!!
In fact, this 3rd record now puts Hill in elite HS PRO territory!
Mary Cain also has a trio of HS PRO records!!
And because Hill had TWO years to collect records of this kind---to Cain's one year!---she now owns MORE HS PRO Class Records than Cain---4 to Cain's 3!!
On THAT note, I'll close this baby and send it to you, my loyal readers!
Expect the second post in a few hours!
And it produced!
But so did several other venues--and athletes!
I have a mountain of material, so let's go to The Armory!
That Women's 800!
In a sensational race, Ajee Wilson followed the rabbit through a 57.4 first 400, with Charlene Lipsey right behind, and even HS'er Sammy Watson at 58.2.
The train continued through a quick 600 in the 1:27's, with Watson at 1:29, and not dying.
It was a tight race for the front pair, but stoic & steady Wilson kept Lipsey heeled.
That fast pace, and the tight race brought home TWO women UNDER the American Record of Nicole Teter, on the books since 2002!
Wilson ran 1:58.27, collecting the Meet Record as well as the AR.
She moves from 11th A-T US to 1st!
The last woman to make the World list was in 2012.
And the only 2 Americans to make that list were Teter and Mary Slaney, who held the 24th spot!
No more!!
Slaney is OFF the World list, her 1:58.9 dating from 1980!
Wilson grabs 13th A-T World!
Lipsey finished strong, timed in 1:58.64, becoming 2nd A-T US, and 19th A-T World!
Far back in 3rd came Lynsey Sharp, then Cecilia Barowski, having a good year!
Her 2:01.52 gave her 23rd A-T US, tied with 1 other!
And she knocked two name vets OFF the list!
Regina Jacobs and Amy Wickus are GONE, Jacobs from 2000, and Wickus from the mid-90's!
And then came Ms Watson!
Watching the race on NBC, the camera focused on the first 2, I sat screaming at my screen---Come on, Sammy, GO!!
And she did, JUST nipping Mary Decker Slaney's venerable, iconic, and most historic HSR of 2:01.8, dating from 1974!!
Her 2:01.78 (WHEW!!) gave her the Senior Class Record as well.
She moves from 3rd to 1st on the A-T HS list!
Her splits were 58.20 and 63.58!
The Millrose Women's Mile was fast too, but so was a Women's Mile the day before at Boston University!!
Let's explore both!
In a totally unexpected race, 3 of the best US distance runners took to BU's track!
At the end, it was Shelby Houlihan's scintellating kick that led to a rewritten Record Book!
Her 4:24.16 defeated Colleen Quigley and Rachel Schneider!
She's 5th A-T US, and 18th A-T World!
Quigley's 4:24.88 makes her 7th A-T US, and 23rd A-T World!
Schneider's 4:25.62--bettering her 4:28.03 PR from last week!--moves her from 20th A-T US to 8th!!
Megan Krumpoch's 4:32.03 was a solid 4th!
And knocked FROM the list is Francie Larrieu, my first female runner crush!!
Her 4:29.5 dated from 1975!!
Now let's see what FURTHER damage the Millrose race did!!
In a race supposedly set up for Shannon Rowbury to again chase the American Record, there were--um--surprises!
First, the pace was off by 2 seconds at the half--2:11 to the wanted 2:09!
Second, new NOP member and Rowbury training partner Sifan Hassan taught Shannon a lesson or two!
Pulling away with over 2 laps to go, Hassan gapped Rowbury, while Kate Grace smelled blood!
Sprinting to tthe tape, Hassan's 4:19.89 made her 4th A-T World!
She also collected the Netherlands National Record, the Millrose Meet Record, and the Age 24 record!
Grace kicked past Rowbury to take 2nd in a BIG PR of 4:22.93.
She got the Age 28 record, while becoming 8th A-T World, and 4th A-T US!!
Rowbury finished in 4:23.05, short of her PR, and AGAIN failing to take down Slaney's iconic standard!
Heather Kampf followed in 4:28.39
Then came Dominique Scott-Erfurd's 4:28.47 National Record of South Africa!!
Kaela Edwards had said in a pre-meet interview that she wanted the Collegiate Record--and she went for it!
But her 4:28.75 wasn't really close, although she moves from 16th A-T Collegiate to 7th!!
Nicole Sifuentes reliably came next, followed by another Collegian, Elinor Purrier!
Purrier's PR of 4:29.44 wasn't enough to move her out of 8th A-T Collegiate!
Alexa Efraimson--one week away from her 20th birthday--ran 4:29.54.
One of my common rants has to do with the failure of timers to time 1500's enroute to Miles!
While Millrose came through, as expected, BU did not!!
Thus, 3 CERTAIN PR's for the 3 BU women mentioned above were lost to history!!
(Unless they suddenly turn up, in which case I'll do my usual mea culpa!! LOL)
For the Millrose group, however, Hassan's 1500 wasn't a PR.
As told above, Grace kicked past Rowbury late in the race!
So Rowbury had a faster 1500 split--4:04.56--which moves her up one spot on the US list, from 4th to 3rd!
Grace's 4:04.86 gives her 5th A-T US!
Collegiate runners rarely get 1500 splits---or race open 1500's!---so Edwards's 4:11.00 makes her 3rd A-T Collegiate.
Purrier's 4:12.35 split gives her 9th A-T Collegiate!!
In keeping with this post's title's theme, let's see what Genzebe Dibaba has been up to!
Would you believe ANOTHER World Record---this time over the 2000 meters distance!
In what amounted to a solo time trial (2 women finished about 30 seconds back!) in Spain, Dibaba cruised around the track at a steady clip, her 5:23.75 chopping almost 7 seconds from Gabriela Szabo's 5:30.53 WR of 1998!
Her splits were 2:42.65 and 2:41.10 for each kilometer!
(Her time is faster than Sonia O'Sullivan's OUTdoor WR--but let's not get into that!!)
Genzebe gets her own Ethiopian National Record, and the Age 25 record!
In fact, this race took place on her LAST day as a 25 year old!!
She moves from 2nd to 1st on the A-T World list!!
She went after her own 1500 WR too, this time in the IAAF World Tour meet in Torun, Poland.
Well, she WANTED to go after it---but her pacer wasn't up to the task!
Instead, Dibaba had to settle for a mere 3:58.80--which still gave her the Age 26 record!
(She ran that two days after turning 26!)
In second came Axumawit Embaye's 4:04.95!
Two Collegiate Records fell in separate meets!
In the altitude-aided Don Kirby affair in Albuquerque, Hannah Cunliffe sped 60 meters in 7.07 to take down Ramona Burchell's 7.08 from 2015!
I have a little story to go with that!
Seeing the time on Twitter, I instantly noted it was a CR!
(Kiss me--I'm an expert!! LOL)
BUT---all the tweets I saw---from reputable sources---ALL said it was an "All-Conditions" best!!
They made NO mention of it being an outright Collegiate Record--no strings attached!!
I sent a few tweets to these sources, but to no avail!
That is, until a tweet from TFCCCA (Coaches Association) finally said the same!!
The falsehood emanated from the method TFRSS uses to "convert" times (from flat to banked tracks, and for altitude), where they "assigned" a time of 7.09 to Cunliffe, adding 0.02 to her REAL Collegiate Record!!
Confusion, confusion!!
Cunliffe also gets the Junior Class record, the World-leader, and the Age 21 record!!
She moves from 5th A-T Collegiate, tied with 2 others, to the top!
She also moves from 21st A-T US, tied with 4 others, to 11th, where she's tied with 1 other!
But she wasn't done!
She added a 22.60 200, which makes her 11th A-T Collegiate, tied with 1 other!
She's now 11th A-T US, tied with 1 other!
Ariana Washington was 2nd, her 22.80 making her 24th A-T Collegiate, tied with 1 other.
As well, she's now 22nd A-T US!
The other CR came out of the blue from Jazmin Fray!
In the Clemson meet, Fray--who surprised with that 2:43.15 1000 back in December--ran a solo 2:00.69 to claim the CR for 800 meters!
Second was over 4 seconds back!
Her splits were 58.96 and 61.73!
She also gets the Collegiate Soph Class record, and adds 17th A-T US to her collection of goodies!
Then--about an hour later--she ran a remarkable 51.9 as 3rd leg of her Texas A&M team's 4X400 Relay!
I'd say she has a sub-2:00 in her, wouldn't you??
The Millrose Women's 500 produced another American Record!!
In a 500 that saw the return of Alysia Montano (with flowers on her shoes, as well as in her hair!--she's currently sponsorless!!), Courtney Okolo sped the distance in 1:07.34, making her 3rd A-T World, as best as I can tell!
(I don't have lists for the 500!)
Montano finished in 1:09.55, just ahead of Delilah Muhammad's 1:09.66!
Okolo also gets the Meet Record!
A pair of HSR's fell in field events!
In a "Boy's" PV competition at the Millrose meet, Mondo Duplantis made 18-2.50, 18-8.25, then his latest HSR of 18-10.25 on first tries!
He declined to go further--the 19 foot barrier now less than two inches away!!
(His father Greg's OUTdoor PR is 19-0.25, so we could soon see the first-ever Father-Son combo of 19 footers---even though I never compare INdoor to OUTdoor marks!)
He broke his own HSR, as well as his own Junior Class record, and Age 17 record!!
Tara Davis--also known as a good hurdler and TJ'er--got another "ancient" HSR--this one now previously owned by one Carol Lewis, her LJ mark of 21-7.25 dating from 1981!!
Davis's 21-11 also got Lewis's Senior Class record!!
She moves from 7th A-T HS to 1st.
And she becomes 20th A-T US, tied with 1 other!!
But wait, I'm not finished!!
She also gets a record held by the venerable Heike Drechsler, whose Olympic-sized career of over 20 years is historic to the nth degree!!
Davis took the Age 17 record away from Drechsler!
However, she'll have to improve by a foot to get Drechsler's OUTdoor Age 17 record!
Davis will only have until her 18th birthday on May 20th!!
(PAUSE)
Let me explain a bit what I'm doing here!
I'd WANTED to divide my report into two posts---one entirely for the Millrose meet, the other for all the rest of my pile of great records & marks!
But with this week producing so MANY Records---across the spectrum!---I decided to go with the major records in the first post---this one!---saving all the rest for a second post!!
And that's basically what I'm doing!
Don't fret, though, because what I'll include in my 2nd post will be enough to sate the appetites of starving dieters!!
I'll continue with more records now!
Several Class Records fell---in both the Collegiate and HS realms!
Trey Knight came from the skies to tear apart the HS Frosh Class record in the Weight Throw!
His 71-3.50 added almost 6 feet to the old mark!!
Katelyn Tuohy removed one of Mary Cain's Class Records--in the 1000!
She gets Cain's Frosh Class mark---by about three seconds!!
And becomes 17th A-T HS with her time of 2:47.86!!
Gleb Gudorev continues to amaze!
Remember, he's the dude who came to Kansas State from Europe, and suddenly emerged as a threat to WT'ers everywhere!!
His 76-11 added about 18 inches to his recent PR, breaking his own Frosh Class record!
He moves from 21st A-T Collegiate to 16th!
And he misses the World DDD by less than 5 inches!!
Fred Kerley ran 45.02 for 400 meters in the Clemson meet to nab the Senior Class record, as well as the Age 21 record!!
He's now 4th A-T Collegiate.
He's also 4th A-T US, tied with 1 other!
And he's 5th A-T World, also tied with 1 other!!
Keturah Orji is still two feet shy of her Rio OUTdoor PR, but her 46-3.25 TJ claims the Junior Class record!!
She fell just 0.75 inches shy of her INdoor PR!!
Tyrese Cooper becomes more and more unbelievable every time he steps on a track!!
In his latest attack on the HS record book, he came THIS close to getting the HSR in the 400 meters!!
The 45.92 by Elzie Coleman has been the HSR only since 2004, but it seems much older!!
(Maybe because no one's come closer than 46.57 since then---until Cooper came on the scene!)
Well, now that Cooper has run 46.01--taking 2nd in a race at the Tyson Invite--Coleman's record is on Death Row!!
He gets the Soph Class record, and becomes 2nd A-T HS!!
But this phenom wasn't done!!
Finishing 3rd behind super vet Wallace Spearmon, Cooper ran the 200 in 21.12, finally getting the Soph Class record that eluded him last week!!
He moves from 15th A-T HS , tied with 3 others, to 11th!
Spearmon won with his 20.69!
Lauren Harris IS the best female HS Walker extant!
She again broke a HSR--this time for the 1500 meters!
Her time was a nifty 6:17.59!!
(To give you some idea of this young lady's talent--and potential!!--the great US Walkster Maria Michta-Coffey took the Millrose Mile in 6:31 and change!! Oh yes, Michta-Coffey mentors Harris!!)
Harris got the Mile Walk record last year!!
Since this post is mainly about Records, I'll close with one for the HS PRO division!!
Candace Hill--who turned 18 yesterday!--got her THIRD record in my self-devised Record Section!
While losing the race to Shakima Wimbley (more on her in the next post!), Hill's 4th place time of 53.05 claimed the 400 meter HS PRO mark!!
And the HS PRO Senior Class record!!
In fact, this 3rd record now puts Hill in elite HS PRO territory!
Mary Cain also has a trio of HS PRO records!!
And because Hill had TWO years to collect records of this kind---to Cain's one year!---she now owns MORE HS PRO Class Records than Cain---4 to Cain's 3!!
On THAT note, I'll close this baby and send it to you, my loyal readers!
Expect the second post in a few hours!
Saturday, February 4, 2017
Broken Record (of) Records Broken
Cute title, eh?
(And sorta touches on theme of Bob Dylan's "Everything is Broken" song from the late 80's!)
But the title fits, because just as I outlined the steady line of records broken in the 2017 INdoor season in my last post, here comes several MORE!!
And 3 of those record breakers are quite familiar to us!
Tyrese Cooper continues to amaze!
Amongst a trio of efforts in The Armory Track Classic came Cooper's 32.87 in the 300 meters, taking down his own HSR of 33.03 from a few weeks ago!
He also got his own Soph Class record and Age 16 record!
He moves from 17th A-T US, tied with 1 other, to 14th!
He misses the World list by just 0.12 seconds!!
Cooper actually took 2nd in the race to Trinidad & Tobago's Lalonde Gordon's 32.37!
He gets the Age 28 record!
He broke his own National Record!
And he moves from 9th A-T World, tied with 1 other, to 8th!
Cooper also sped a 60 in 6.79, and the 200 in 21.28!
The latter was widely reported (by Flotrack and Mile Split, to name two!) as the Soph Class record!!
But readers of my blog know that Brian Herron beat him to it, running the Soph Class record time of 21.22 in early January!!
I tweeted them about it, but never received a reply!
Proves that if you want the FACTS, come to my blog!!
LOL
The Armory meet saw another HSR smashing!
Again, this one came from a woman who'd been there, done that!
Sammy Watson obliterated her own HSR in the 600 by 1.54 seconds, her time of 1:27.13 beating an Olympian at 800 meters, Lynsey Sharp!!
But let's cover the whole race!
Ajee Wilson was on a mission--and it was mission accomplished!
After running 1:25.23 last week (See a previous post!), she wanted a sub-1:25, and she got it!
Her 1:24.48 broke her own Age 22 record!
In fact, the only 2 sub-1:24 times came from women 4 & 5 years older than her!
She remains 2nd A-T US, and moves from 5th A-T World, tied with 1 other, to 4th!
In 2nd came Cecilia Barowski, whose 1:26.74 makes her 7th A-T US!
She misses the World list by 0.18 seconds!!
Then came the incredible Samantha Watson!
She got her own HSR, Senior Class record, and Age 17 record!
She is now 8th A-T US!!
But maybe the most astonishing fact is this--
If she were in College right now, this would be the A-T Collegiate Record, smashing Heather (Dornidan) Kampf's 1:27.78!!
This maybe goes beyond Mary Cain territory!
When Cain was still an amateur, I remarked on where her HSR's would place her if she were then a Collegiate!
Well, Watson is THERE now too!
NONE of Cain's numerous HSR's (as an amateur!) would have "broken" a Collegiate Record!!
Ms Watson's 1:27.13 would!!
Next came Lynsey Sharp--timed in 1:27.16!
Then followed (in 5th) Meg Manley's 1:27.97, which makes her 15th A-T US!
In 6th was Olicia Williams, whose 1:28.20 makes her 21st A-T US, tied with 1 other!
Another "odd" distance record fell!
Sage Watson, a star 400H gal from Canada, ran 500 meters in 1:08.40 for the Collegiate Record!
She also got the National Record!
(I don't have lists for this distance, but she places 5th A-T World, I believe!)
Then there's Mondo Duplantis!!
He'd already broken (his own) HSR in the PV TWICE this season--in the same meet!!
Well, he did it again!
Beginning after everyone else was finished (in a HS meet at LSU), he cleared 18-6.50 to break his record of 18-5!
Then he went over--cleanly!!--18-9.25 to leave the earlier record in tatters!!
Besides the HSR, he gets his own Junior Class and Age 17 records too!
(Twice each!)
If a Collegiate, he'd rank 10th A-T!
He misses the US list by 3 inches!
That takes care of the Major Records this week!
BUT a large assortment of "lesser" records (There really are none in this blog!!) went under!
Enough that I'll do the rest by event group, such as sprints, jumps, etc.
Distances (600 on up)
The 600 was explosive this weekend!
Besides the aforementioned, Courtney Okolo solo'ed a 1:25.21 in Nebraska!
This makes her 3rd A-T US, and 6th A-T World!!
Does she have intentions to add the 800 to her repertoire??
Strymar Livingston ran his fastest NCAA Division One 600, time of 1:16.93, also in the Nebraska meet!
But, as a Junior College athlete in 2015, he ran 1:16.53, his PR!
I carry that mark on my Collegiate DDD, since I believe that a College is a College is a College!!
In New Mexico, Vincent Crisp ran 1:17.60.
Behind him came a familiar name to Multi's fans--Curtis Beach!--who ran 1:17.72!
Rodney Agyare-May ran 1:18.40, moving him from 11th A-T HS to 4th, tied with 1 other!
(In a meet at BU, Carly Muscaro ran the 500 in a good 1:09.05!)
Emmanuel Korir ran the 800 in a non-PR 1:46.75!
In a quiet year for this INdoor 4-lapper, Anita Hinriksdottir, that still-young (Turned 21 on January 13th!) veteran from Iceland, broke her own National Record with her 2:01.18!
Rachel McArthur ran the 1000 in 2:48.35, making her 19th A-T HS!
The 1500 and Mile have been quiet also this year!
But Brit Andy Butchart sped a 3:54.23 in his first-ever Mile under a roof!
He beat Ford Palmer by just over 4 seconds!
Rachel Schneider PR'ed with her 4:28.03
She moves from 23rd A-T US, tied with 1 other, to 17th!
Cory McGee was a solid 2nd with her time of 4:30.03!
In the BU meet, Joel Hubbard ran 3:59.37, while Megan Krumpoch won her race in 4:35.43.
Laura Muir is suddenly the HOT item in the distances!
(We're still waiting to see Genzebe Dibaba and Almaz Ayana et al this season!)
A month ago, she ran that 14:49 over 5000!
Now, in a great battle with Helen Obiri over 3000 meters in the Karlsruhe IAAF World Tour meet, Muir prevailed again!
Running just behind Obiri through the first 12 or 13 laps, she attacked, opening an ever-widening lead, her time of 8:26.41 giving her the Meet Record and the British National Record!
While not getting the Age 23 record, she does become 5th A-T World!!
Obiri held on to break her own National Record of Kenya, time of 8:29.46.
She gets the Age 27 record!
And she is now 10th A-T World!
The K's were approximately 2:51, 2:49, then 2:46 for Muir!
Her 1500's were about 4:17 and 4:09!!
Heather Kampf, best known as the Queen of the Road Mile, PR'ed in the 3000, winning the Armory race in 8:51.27.
She's now 18th A-T US!
Emily Lipari ran a good race, taking 2nd in 8:57.24!
Drew Hunter finished in 3rd place in the Men's race, but his 7:51.90 was a PR by 7.43 seconds over his HSR from 2016--when he was still an amateur!
IF he were a Collegiate--and amateur!--he'd be the Frosh Class record holder!!
Let's return to the PV!
Jenn Suhr's "injury" (reported in a previous post) apparently is all better now!
On her final day being Age 34, she Vaulted 15-2.25!
No Age record, but the Age 35 slot remains empty!!
But great to see her back in action!
(Lucy Bryan PR'ed behind Suhr at 14-2.50!)
Lisa Ryzih got the highest Women's mark, winning Karlsruhe with her 15-3.75!
Chris Nilsen got over 18-5---the best Collegiate mark of 2017!
Kyle Pater cleared 18-4.50 for the Air Force Academy!
Adrian Valles got over 18-3.25.
Morgann LeLeux cleared 14-7.25 at LSU.
In the Notre Dame meet (but on the non-oversize PV runway!!), Mary Saxer reached 14-11, with Kristen Hixson 2nd in 14-7.25!
In New Mexico, Kristen Brown's 14-10 missed the US DDD by a mere quarter-inch!!
Three others reached 14-6--Kortney Ross, Megan Clark, and Kally Long!
But the best mark came from the STEAMING Pole, Piotr Lisek!
He broke his own recently set National Record of Poland with his first 6-meter jump!
The 19-8.25 moves him from 15th A-T World, tied with 3 others, up to 6th, tied with 4 others!!
The WT got its usual abundance of solid marks!
Gwen Berry got a PR after a 4-year stall!
She nabbed the Age 27 record with her toss of 81-3.25!
(More is coming on Women's WT Age records!)
Berry remains 3rd A-T World and US!
Her 5 fair throws all were 78-10.50 or farther!!
Amber Campbell got her TENTH Age record with her measure of 74-7.25!
The Age 35 record, to be exact!
BUT--Berry's toss snagged one of Campbell's records--so Campbell now has "only" 9 Age records!!
Oh, woe!
LOL
Rudy Winkler improved to 76-6.25.
This makes him 16th A-T Collegiate, and 20th A-T US!!
Jordan Young's 75-2 makes him 23rd A-T Collegiate.
He misses my US list by 7 inches!!
Janeah Stewart won the event with her PR-tying 71-8.75.
But in 2nd--with a BIG PR--came Raven Saunders!
Her 71-1.25 is still over 2 feet from the Collegiate list!!
She's of course MUCH better known as a SP'er, but you might not know it with her UNDERwhelming throw of 59-7!
(That said, her earlier throw of 62-8 still leads the WORLD!!)
The Multi's got some decent marks this weekend!
Kansas State Frosh Nina Schultz scored 4271 Pentathlon points, defeating Sami Spenner's 4183.
Schultz misses the Collegiate list by 56 points!
In NM, Brittany Howell scored 4291 points, missing the US list by only 8 points!!
Tim Duckworth won the Nebraska Heptathlon with his score of 6006 points!
More importantly, he became the National Record holder of Great Britain, and the first to score 6000 points!!
He becomes 15th A-T Collegiate!
And Akron Junior Jaclyn Siefring scored 4204 in the Pent!
The Hurdles outdid the Sprint in the 60 meter category!
In Karlsruhe, the "showdown" between Kendra Harrison and Sally Pearson was anticlimactic!
But Harrison's 7.76 missed her PR by just 0.01 seconds, and easily dominated Pearson, and the deep field!
All 8 women ran 8.00 or faster!
Cindy Roleder also beat Pearson, 7.90 to 7.91.
(Sally was very happy with her INdoor rust-buster!)
Christina Manning took 4th in 7.92, but ran her heat in 7.89!
Cindy Ofili was 5th in 7.96.
Eighth (and last) was Sharika Nelvis's 8-flat!
Andrew Pozzi grabbed the World leader for the Men with his 7.44 PR!
He's 22nd A-T World, but tied with 6 others!
Jasmine Camacho-Quinn ran a good 8.03.to win in Nebraska.
HSR holder Trey Cunningham ran his 2nd best mark, a 7.54.
(He also sped the flat 60 in 6.79!)
In Karlsruhe, Dina Asher-Smith ran 7.13 to edge Gayon Evans's 7.14 for the flat 60.
Over hurdles, Chad Zallow missed the Collegiate DDD by 0.01 seconds with his PR of 7.61.
Christian Coleman improved to 6.51 in the flat 60.
He moves from 13th A-T Collegiate, tied with 4 others, to 9th, where he's also tied with 4 others!
He misses the US DDD by that tiniest of numbers--0.01 seconds!!
Michael Norman began his Collegiate career with a 200 in 20.76!
Not bad for a rust-buster!
Then there's Kim Collins!!
Nearing Age 41 (April 5th), he AGAIN broke his own Age "40 & over" record, this time with a 6.52!
This is the FOURTH record in this Age bracket he's set this year!!
He beat Ronnie Baker's 6.54!
In other events, Ashley Spencer's 22.94 over 200 meters took the Nebraska race!
Quenesha Burks LJ'ed 21-4.75 to win at LSU.
Brad Atkins HJ'ed 7-5.
Inika McPherson HJ'ed 6-0.75, but I believe that's her 2017 opener!
The USC Men's 4X400 team ran 3:05.57 in New Mexico to become 17th A-T School!
In the USATF XC meet in Bend OR, Kenyan-Americans dominated the Men's race, with Len Korir winning in 30:11, followed by Stan Kebenai, Shadrack Kipchirchir, and Sam Chelanga!
First US-born American was Chris Derrick!
For the Women, Aliphine Tuliamuk completely overwhelmed the field, her 34:23 winning by 48 seconds over Laura Thweatt, who is coming back from a 2016 injury!
Kellyn Taylor was 3rd, while newlywed (She got married on New Year's Eve!!) Courtney Frerichs was 4th in her first-ever 10K!!
She said she hopes to run a track 10000 this spring!
The best OT marks came--not surprisingly!---on Notre Dame's monster oval!
Carter Lilly ran the 600 in 1:17.20.
Daniel Kuhn ran the 800 in 1:46.42.
And Erik Peterson ran 3000 meters in 7:51.21.
I'll close this post with the Usain-Bolt-ified "Nitro" series being held in Australia!!
I really don't know what to say about this!
(But I'll try! LOL)
First, it's a 3-part "meet".
The first part was today, with the next two coming on 2 separate days in the next week!
It's a track meet.
You would recognize the events, even with the gimmickry the promoters added!
For example, you had a sort of "Devil-take-the-hindmost" set of Mile races, with the last runner each of the first 3 laps being sent off the track!
Then you had a Javelin Throw which was more interested in AIMING the throw rather than its measured distance!
You had a series of Mixed Relays, wherein the teams could choose the 4-some's set-up!
As in whether to go with the alternate-gender thing---a man, a woman, a man, a woman.
Or with 2 women, then 2 men--or vice versa--as the "Bolt All-Stars" used!!
Another interesting race was the "3 Minute" race!
(Back in the day---on 440 yard tracks--I ran several "Hour Runs", wherein you ran as far as you could in one hour!)
In similar fashion, a two-person team (one man, one woman) ran for 3 minutes, and added their distances to determine the winner!
GenGen LaCaze and Luke Matthews added-together distance was 2325 meters!
Have no idea who ran how many meters!
Okay, now let's look at the rest of the results!
The "Devilish" Women's Mile was won by Aussie Linden Hall in 4:36.90.
The Men's race was won in a slow 4:09 and change!
Michelle Jenneke took the 100H race in 13.76!
Have no idea if there were any stunts in that one---except maybe a jiggly dance at the start by Miss Jenneke??
Asefa Powell won the 60 in 6.64, wind of 0.2.
Jenna Prandini won the 150 in 16.99.
Jarrion Lawson won the LJ with 26-0.75!
Kara Winger took that JT with a distance of 200-8!
(Not sure if they determined her win by that number, or by her "aim"!! LOL)
Then there was DA MAN and his Bolt All-Stars in the 4X100 Relay!!
They decided to go with the Men first, followed by the 2 Women!
So here you had Asefa Powell handing off to 2nd-legger Bolt!
And HIS "competition"--among others--was a 16 year old girl!!!
(Wonder who was ahead at the 2nd hand-off!!)
Bolt almost TACKLED Jenna Prandini, his top-end speed tough to brake as he came close to the former Duck!
But both survived, and she handed off to anchor Jeneba Tarmoh, the team timed in a runaway 40.64 win!!
I might have more to say on this "Nitro" thing later on, but for now, it appears everyone---fans included!---had LOTS of fun---before, during, and after the "meet"!
As long as it doesn't BECOME our sport in the future, I'm okay with it!!
Next week is MILLROSE!
But also the new meet in Dallas, which should be a good one!!
Plus the usual assortment of other meets---mostly Collegiate---but also including the 4th stop on the IAAF World Tour--in Poland!
See you then!
(And sorta touches on theme of Bob Dylan's "Everything is Broken" song from the late 80's!)
But the title fits, because just as I outlined the steady line of records broken in the 2017 INdoor season in my last post, here comes several MORE!!
And 3 of those record breakers are quite familiar to us!
Tyrese Cooper continues to amaze!
Amongst a trio of efforts in The Armory Track Classic came Cooper's 32.87 in the 300 meters, taking down his own HSR of 33.03 from a few weeks ago!
He also got his own Soph Class record and Age 16 record!
He moves from 17th A-T US, tied with 1 other, to 14th!
He misses the World list by just 0.12 seconds!!
Cooper actually took 2nd in the race to Trinidad & Tobago's Lalonde Gordon's 32.37!
He gets the Age 28 record!
He broke his own National Record!
And he moves from 9th A-T World, tied with 1 other, to 8th!
Cooper also sped a 60 in 6.79, and the 200 in 21.28!
The latter was widely reported (by Flotrack and Mile Split, to name two!) as the Soph Class record!!
But readers of my blog know that Brian Herron beat him to it, running the Soph Class record time of 21.22 in early January!!
I tweeted them about it, but never received a reply!
Proves that if you want the FACTS, come to my blog!!
LOL
The Armory meet saw another HSR smashing!
Again, this one came from a woman who'd been there, done that!
Sammy Watson obliterated her own HSR in the 600 by 1.54 seconds, her time of 1:27.13 beating an Olympian at 800 meters, Lynsey Sharp!!
But let's cover the whole race!
Ajee Wilson was on a mission--and it was mission accomplished!
After running 1:25.23 last week (See a previous post!), she wanted a sub-1:25, and she got it!
Her 1:24.48 broke her own Age 22 record!
In fact, the only 2 sub-1:24 times came from women 4 & 5 years older than her!
She remains 2nd A-T US, and moves from 5th A-T World, tied with 1 other, to 4th!
In 2nd came Cecilia Barowski, whose 1:26.74 makes her 7th A-T US!
She misses the World list by 0.18 seconds!!
Then came the incredible Samantha Watson!
She got her own HSR, Senior Class record, and Age 17 record!
She is now 8th A-T US!!
But maybe the most astonishing fact is this--
If she were in College right now, this would be the A-T Collegiate Record, smashing Heather (Dornidan) Kampf's 1:27.78!!
This maybe goes beyond Mary Cain territory!
When Cain was still an amateur, I remarked on where her HSR's would place her if she were then a Collegiate!
Well, Watson is THERE now too!
NONE of Cain's numerous HSR's (as an amateur!) would have "broken" a Collegiate Record!!
Ms Watson's 1:27.13 would!!
Next came Lynsey Sharp--timed in 1:27.16!
Then followed (in 5th) Meg Manley's 1:27.97, which makes her 15th A-T US!
In 6th was Olicia Williams, whose 1:28.20 makes her 21st A-T US, tied with 1 other!
Another "odd" distance record fell!
Sage Watson, a star 400H gal from Canada, ran 500 meters in 1:08.40 for the Collegiate Record!
She also got the National Record!
(I don't have lists for this distance, but she places 5th A-T World, I believe!)
Then there's Mondo Duplantis!!
He'd already broken (his own) HSR in the PV TWICE this season--in the same meet!!
Well, he did it again!
Beginning after everyone else was finished (in a HS meet at LSU), he cleared 18-6.50 to break his record of 18-5!
Then he went over--cleanly!!--18-9.25 to leave the earlier record in tatters!!
Besides the HSR, he gets his own Junior Class and Age 17 records too!
(Twice each!)
If a Collegiate, he'd rank 10th A-T!
He misses the US list by 3 inches!
That takes care of the Major Records this week!
BUT a large assortment of "lesser" records (There really are none in this blog!!) went under!
Enough that I'll do the rest by event group, such as sprints, jumps, etc.
Distances (600 on up)
The 600 was explosive this weekend!
Besides the aforementioned, Courtney Okolo solo'ed a 1:25.21 in Nebraska!
This makes her 3rd A-T US, and 6th A-T World!!
Does she have intentions to add the 800 to her repertoire??
Strymar Livingston ran his fastest NCAA Division One 600, time of 1:16.93, also in the Nebraska meet!
But, as a Junior College athlete in 2015, he ran 1:16.53, his PR!
I carry that mark on my Collegiate DDD, since I believe that a College is a College is a College!!
In New Mexico, Vincent Crisp ran 1:17.60.
Behind him came a familiar name to Multi's fans--Curtis Beach!--who ran 1:17.72!
Rodney Agyare-May ran 1:18.40, moving him from 11th A-T HS to 4th, tied with 1 other!
(In a meet at BU, Carly Muscaro ran the 500 in a good 1:09.05!)
Emmanuel Korir ran the 800 in a non-PR 1:46.75!
In a quiet year for this INdoor 4-lapper, Anita Hinriksdottir, that still-young (Turned 21 on January 13th!) veteran from Iceland, broke her own National Record with her 2:01.18!
Rachel McArthur ran the 1000 in 2:48.35, making her 19th A-T HS!
The 1500 and Mile have been quiet also this year!
But Brit Andy Butchart sped a 3:54.23 in his first-ever Mile under a roof!
He beat Ford Palmer by just over 4 seconds!
Rachel Schneider PR'ed with her 4:28.03
She moves from 23rd A-T US, tied with 1 other, to 17th!
Cory McGee was a solid 2nd with her time of 4:30.03!
In the BU meet, Joel Hubbard ran 3:59.37, while Megan Krumpoch won her race in 4:35.43.
Laura Muir is suddenly the HOT item in the distances!
(We're still waiting to see Genzebe Dibaba and Almaz Ayana et al this season!)
A month ago, she ran that 14:49 over 5000!
Now, in a great battle with Helen Obiri over 3000 meters in the Karlsruhe IAAF World Tour meet, Muir prevailed again!
Running just behind Obiri through the first 12 or 13 laps, she attacked, opening an ever-widening lead, her time of 8:26.41 giving her the Meet Record and the British National Record!
While not getting the Age 23 record, she does become 5th A-T World!!
Obiri held on to break her own National Record of Kenya, time of 8:29.46.
She gets the Age 27 record!
And she is now 10th A-T World!
The K's were approximately 2:51, 2:49, then 2:46 for Muir!
Her 1500's were about 4:17 and 4:09!!
Heather Kampf, best known as the Queen of the Road Mile, PR'ed in the 3000, winning the Armory race in 8:51.27.
She's now 18th A-T US!
Emily Lipari ran a good race, taking 2nd in 8:57.24!
Drew Hunter finished in 3rd place in the Men's race, but his 7:51.90 was a PR by 7.43 seconds over his HSR from 2016--when he was still an amateur!
IF he were a Collegiate--and amateur!--he'd be the Frosh Class record holder!!
Let's return to the PV!
Jenn Suhr's "injury" (reported in a previous post) apparently is all better now!
On her final day being Age 34, she Vaulted 15-2.25!
No Age record, but the Age 35 slot remains empty!!
But great to see her back in action!
(Lucy Bryan PR'ed behind Suhr at 14-2.50!)
Lisa Ryzih got the highest Women's mark, winning Karlsruhe with her 15-3.75!
Chris Nilsen got over 18-5---the best Collegiate mark of 2017!
Kyle Pater cleared 18-4.50 for the Air Force Academy!
Adrian Valles got over 18-3.25.
Morgann LeLeux cleared 14-7.25 at LSU.
In the Notre Dame meet (but on the non-oversize PV runway!!), Mary Saxer reached 14-11, with Kristen Hixson 2nd in 14-7.25!
In New Mexico, Kristen Brown's 14-10 missed the US DDD by a mere quarter-inch!!
Three others reached 14-6--Kortney Ross, Megan Clark, and Kally Long!
But the best mark came from the STEAMING Pole, Piotr Lisek!
He broke his own recently set National Record of Poland with his first 6-meter jump!
The 19-8.25 moves him from 15th A-T World, tied with 3 others, up to 6th, tied with 4 others!!
The WT got its usual abundance of solid marks!
Gwen Berry got a PR after a 4-year stall!
She nabbed the Age 27 record with her toss of 81-3.25!
(More is coming on Women's WT Age records!)
Berry remains 3rd A-T World and US!
Her 5 fair throws all were 78-10.50 or farther!!
Amber Campbell got her TENTH Age record with her measure of 74-7.25!
The Age 35 record, to be exact!
BUT--Berry's toss snagged one of Campbell's records--so Campbell now has "only" 9 Age records!!
Oh, woe!
LOL
Rudy Winkler improved to 76-6.25.
This makes him 16th A-T Collegiate, and 20th A-T US!!
Jordan Young's 75-2 makes him 23rd A-T Collegiate.
He misses my US list by 7 inches!!
Janeah Stewart won the event with her PR-tying 71-8.75.
But in 2nd--with a BIG PR--came Raven Saunders!
Her 71-1.25 is still over 2 feet from the Collegiate list!!
She's of course MUCH better known as a SP'er, but you might not know it with her UNDERwhelming throw of 59-7!
(That said, her earlier throw of 62-8 still leads the WORLD!!)
The Multi's got some decent marks this weekend!
Kansas State Frosh Nina Schultz scored 4271 Pentathlon points, defeating Sami Spenner's 4183.
Schultz misses the Collegiate list by 56 points!
In NM, Brittany Howell scored 4291 points, missing the US list by only 8 points!!
Tim Duckworth won the Nebraska Heptathlon with his score of 6006 points!
More importantly, he became the National Record holder of Great Britain, and the first to score 6000 points!!
He becomes 15th A-T Collegiate!
And Akron Junior Jaclyn Siefring scored 4204 in the Pent!
The Hurdles outdid the Sprint in the 60 meter category!
In Karlsruhe, the "showdown" between Kendra Harrison and Sally Pearson was anticlimactic!
But Harrison's 7.76 missed her PR by just 0.01 seconds, and easily dominated Pearson, and the deep field!
All 8 women ran 8.00 or faster!
Cindy Roleder also beat Pearson, 7.90 to 7.91.
(Sally was very happy with her INdoor rust-buster!)
Christina Manning took 4th in 7.92, but ran her heat in 7.89!
Cindy Ofili was 5th in 7.96.
Eighth (and last) was Sharika Nelvis's 8-flat!
Andrew Pozzi grabbed the World leader for the Men with his 7.44 PR!
He's 22nd A-T World, but tied with 6 others!
Jasmine Camacho-Quinn ran a good 8.03.to win in Nebraska.
HSR holder Trey Cunningham ran his 2nd best mark, a 7.54.
(He also sped the flat 60 in 6.79!)
In Karlsruhe, Dina Asher-Smith ran 7.13 to edge Gayon Evans's 7.14 for the flat 60.
Over hurdles, Chad Zallow missed the Collegiate DDD by 0.01 seconds with his PR of 7.61.
Christian Coleman improved to 6.51 in the flat 60.
He moves from 13th A-T Collegiate, tied with 4 others, to 9th, where he's also tied with 4 others!
He misses the US DDD by that tiniest of numbers--0.01 seconds!!
Michael Norman began his Collegiate career with a 200 in 20.76!
Not bad for a rust-buster!
Then there's Kim Collins!!
Nearing Age 41 (April 5th), he AGAIN broke his own Age "40 & over" record, this time with a 6.52!
This is the FOURTH record in this Age bracket he's set this year!!
He beat Ronnie Baker's 6.54!
In other events, Ashley Spencer's 22.94 over 200 meters took the Nebraska race!
Quenesha Burks LJ'ed 21-4.75 to win at LSU.
Brad Atkins HJ'ed 7-5.
Inika McPherson HJ'ed 6-0.75, but I believe that's her 2017 opener!
The USC Men's 4X400 team ran 3:05.57 in New Mexico to become 17th A-T School!
In the USATF XC meet in Bend OR, Kenyan-Americans dominated the Men's race, with Len Korir winning in 30:11, followed by Stan Kebenai, Shadrack Kipchirchir, and Sam Chelanga!
First US-born American was Chris Derrick!
For the Women, Aliphine Tuliamuk completely overwhelmed the field, her 34:23 winning by 48 seconds over Laura Thweatt, who is coming back from a 2016 injury!
Kellyn Taylor was 3rd, while newlywed (She got married on New Year's Eve!!) Courtney Frerichs was 4th in her first-ever 10K!!
She said she hopes to run a track 10000 this spring!
The best OT marks came--not surprisingly!---on Notre Dame's monster oval!
Carter Lilly ran the 600 in 1:17.20.
Daniel Kuhn ran the 800 in 1:46.42.
And Erik Peterson ran 3000 meters in 7:51.21.
I'll close this post with the Usain-Bolt-ified "Nitro" series being held in Australia!!
I really don't know what to say about this!
(But I'll try! LOL)
First, it's a 3-part "meet".
The first part was today, with the next two coming on 2 separate days in the next week!
It's a track meet.
You would recognize the events, even with the gimmickry the promoters added!
For example, you had a sort of "Devil-take-the-hindmost" set of Mile races, with the last runner each of the first 3 laps being sent off the track!
Then you had a Javelin Throw which was more interested in AIMING the throw rather than its measured distance!
You had a series of Mixed Relays, wherein the teams could choose the 4-some's set-up!
As in whether to go with the alternate-gender thing---a man, a woman, a man, a woman.
Or with 2 women, then 2 men--or vice versa--as the "Bolt All-Stars" used!!
Another interesting race was the "3 Minute" race!
(Back in the day---on 440 yard tracks--I ran several "Hour Runs", wherein you ran as far as you could in one hour!)
In similar fashion, a two-person team (one man, one woman) ran for 3 minutes, and added their distances to determine the winner!
GenGen LaCaze and Luke Matthews added-together distance was 2325 meters!
Have no idea who ran how many meters!
Okay, now let's look at the rest of the results!
The "Devilish" Women's Mile was won by Aussie Linden Hall in 4:36.90.
The Men's race was won in a slow 4:09 and change!
Michelle Jenneke took the 100H race in 13.76!
Have no idea if there were any stunts in that one---except maybe a jiggly dance at the start by Miss Jenneke??
Asefa Powell won the 60 in 6.64, wind of 0.2.
Jenna Prandini won the 150 in 16.99.
Jarrion Lawson won the LJ with 26-0.75!
Kara Winger took that JT with a distance of 200-8!
(Not sure if they determined her win by that number, or by her "aim"!! LOL)
Then there was DA MAN and his Bolt All-Stars in the 4X100 Relay!!
They decided to go with the Men first, followed by the 2 Women!
So here you had Asefa Powell handing off to 2nd-legger Bolt!
And HIS "competition"--among others--was a 16 year old girl!!!
(Wonder who was ahead at the 2nd hand-off!!)
Bolt almost TACKLED Jenna Prandini, his top-end speed tough to brake as he came close to the former Duck!
But both survived, and she handed off to anchor Jeneba Tarmoh, the team timed in a runaway 40.64 win!!
I might have more to say on this "Nitro" thing later on, but for now, it appears everyone---fans included!---had LOTS of fun---before, during, and after the "meet"!
As long as it doesn't BECOME our sport in the future, I'm okay with it!!
Next week is MILLROSE!
But also the new meet in Dallas, which should be a good one!!
Plus the usual assortment of other meets---mostly Collegiate---but also including the 4th stop on the IAAF World Tour--in Poland!
See you then!
Thursday, February 2, 2017
A Groundhog Day Review
It's sunny here in Bellingham WA on Groundhog day!
But what about the sport of Track and Field this INdoor season?
Is it "sunny" there too---or will we have 6 more weeks of T&F "winter"?
Let's take a peek in this "extra" post!
BTW, I will have a few marks to report, but am saving those for the end!
Donald Trump became the US President two weeks ago today!
There's been nothing but controversy ever since--in the world of politics.
But how---if at all!!--does this affect our sport!
Aside from speculation about the US bid for the 2024 Olympics, the main source of angst seems to be about his Executive Order on Muslim Immigration!
Sir Mo Farah was concerned!
Lopez Lomong spoke out.
The Twitterverse has gone bonkers on Trump's actions!
BUT---all seems to be okay---as it affects our sport!
Iulia (Or is it Julia?) Stepanova was the key whistleblower in the Russian drug skullduggery!
And she ran the 800 in Boston's IAAF World Tour meet!
(More on the Tour below!)
Her time of 2:05.14 (As her coach predicted, she said later!) wasn't special, but her BEING THERE was!!
Yes, Darya Klishina was a Russian in Rio last summer!
But Stepanova was a Russian in the US of A just days ago!!
And a welcomed one at that!!
In the post-race interview (through an interpreter!), she said she wasn't afraid, and indeed felt safe here!
She smiled, even laughed (in interactions with her interpreter).
IMO, I'm thrilled she competed, and hope to see her (and other CLEAN Russians!) in future meets!
No, I won't go into one of my "rants" on Oversize Tracks here!
What I WILL do is CASTIGATE the SEC (and/or the NCAA authorities) for scheduling a MAJOR Collegiate Conference meet for an OT!!
Yes, the SEC's will be on Vanderbilt's 300 meter monster!!
Where NO RACE longer than 60 meters will be eligible for A-T lists or Records!!
NONE!!
If a "Collegiate Record" is run in the Women's 1000---as is quite possible---it will NOT count!!
This is more than sad--this is STUPID!!
(I believe the Big 10 Conference meet is scheduled for the SPIRE, with ITS 300 meter track!!)
Every season---INdoors and OUTdoors---brings with it its share of redshirts, injuries, major illnesses, school leavings (As Jasmine Todd left UO last year!).
That's expected!
But there's also those athletes who just choose to not compete INdoors---for whatever reason!
Among those THIS year are---
Demi Payne (Word is, she's in Texas training! But for INdoors? Questionable!)
Brigetta Barrett (She's retired!)
Mary Cain (Who knows??)
Usain Bolt & SAFP (Bolt is in Australia for their upcoming "Nitro" series of meets---OUTdoors! As for SAFP, she rarely competes INdoors!)
Galen Rupp (Holder of the 3000, Two Mile, and 5000 INdoor AR's, he's locked into the 10K & Marathon, so is unlikely to compete INdoors---ever again!!)
Molly Huddle (Also into the longer stuff, so NO INdoors!!)
What's "new" to my T&F Record Book---and thus also to this blog?
After the big numbers put up in the 300's this year, I finally drew up A-T Top 24 Performers lists (DDD's) for that event.
As earlier noted, the HS, US, and World lists were relatively simple to get together!
But the Collegiate lists are only halfway there (Through 11th for the Men, and 12th for the Women!).
In earlier years, I added the 1000's and the 600's, as well as Relay lists!
Also, my posts seem to be lengthening.
This is in part due to my personal situation, as my health doesn't always allow for 2 or 3 posts per week, every week!
So I have to cram EVERYthing into one LONG weekly post!!
I'll TRY to do more---just don't expect it!
That said, I will continue to cover---and even ADD!---"odd" events to my coverage---those "lost souls" unloved & even unwanted!
Such as the aforementioned 300's & 600's, but also the 50K Walk for Women!
As for those 300's & 600's, they have been this season's dominant individual events, as the Distance Medley Relay has been "busy" in the team aspect of the sport!
Here's the evidence!
I did a count of my DDD entries for 2017 on January 31st!
As of that date, here's the data.
Ninety eight (98) marks dated as 2017 (Which does NOT count those 2016-2017 season marks made in December!!) are on my INdoor DDD's!
58 are by Women, 40 by Men.
In 2015 and 2016, the final numbers reached 373 and 372!!
(I expect the usual 300+ by season's end!)
23 are from the 600!
20 are from the 300!
14 are on the WT lists!
Only 8 (so far!) are from the Pole Vault!
ZERO marks come from the Men's 60, 400, 1000, 3000, 2 Mile, 5000, HJ, LJ, TJ, and WT
The Women's lists come up empty in the 60, 400, 1500, Mile, 2 Mile, HJ, and the Pentathlon!
(I did NOT count the 2000's!)
Here's how the 4 core groups played out!
HS'ers have 28 marks, with 14 each for Men and Women!
Collegiates have 24 marks, with 10 for Men, and 14 for Women!
US Women more than double the count of US Men, 19 to 9!
World Women have 11, while World Men have 7.
How will THIS weekend's action change things??
As for the core group's in the Records department, it's been a good year so far!!
But let's peek at 2016 first!
Last year, the Men broke--
2 WR's
3 US Records
4 CR's
6 HSR's
The Women broke--
4 WR's
3 US
6 CR's
and
13 HSR's!!!
Totals were--
6 WR's
6 US
10 CR's
19 HSR's!
Knowing that the final totals should (Will??) be greatly enhanced by the Championship meets (USATF, NCAA, European Champs, and the NBIN), here's the numbers---so far!--for 2017!
Men
WR's for Emmanuel Korir and Casimir Loxsom!
AR's go to Loxsom!
CR's for Korir, Isaiah Harris, and Texas A&M's 4X400 Relayists!
HSR's for Tyrese Cooper, Jordan Geist (that 16 lb SP---which still ranks 3rd in the WORLD, according to Tilastopaia!!!), Mondo Duplantis, and Trey Cunningham!
Women
WR's go to the US team in the DMR!
AR's to that DMR team, and Quanera Hayes!
CR's to Kaela Edwards and the UO DMR team!
HSR's go to Sammy Watson and the Lake Braddock DMR squad!
(Special Mention goes to Candace Hill, who nabbed TWO of my own HS PRO records---in the 60 and 300!!)
So, EXcluding those HS PRO marks, we have, total--
WR's (3)
AR's (3)
CR's (5)
HSR's (6)
Expect a LOT more!!
Sooooo, the IAAF World Tour!
Let's just say my expectations were MUCH bigger and expansive than the reality---thus far, after 2 meets---presents!
WHY?
Well, the same happens with their OUTdoor equivalents, the Diamond League meets!
(Am I wrong to connect the two---beyond that both are IAAF created and produced?)
Some comments on the T&FN MB suggest that the "poor" marks from the 1st two meets (Boston and Dusseldorf--See below for some marks from the latter!) are due to--
No INdoor WC this year, but an OUTdoor WC which many athletes are focusing on!
The usual antipathy to INdoor---period!
Post-Olympics, so athletes are just now getting into serious training for 2017!
Whatever the reasons (excuses!!), this season has been relatively slow to grow!
(Despite the numbers presented above!)
But can we blame it all on the grandiosity of the IAAF World Tour?
That "grandiosity" was partly MY fault!
I was the one who equated these 5 meets to the 14 OUTdoor DL's!
Was I wrong?
In response to the T&FN Message Board folks, I would suggest they look to the first 2 meets of the DL season---in Doha and Shanghai!
Study the marks that emerge from those meets!
Pretty good, I'd say!
In totality, the World Tour meets are weaker!
This of course could be (IS?) due to the reasons stated above!!
INdoors just isn't seen as important to many athletes as one (I...!!) would want!!
That's the reality!
But, that said, the fields for the Karlsruhe meet are pretty damn strong!!
Check back Sunday morning for the detailed results!
And now for the NEWS!
I decided to report these now---just in case the weekend meets produce such a gigantic amount of great Records & Marks that the post's length becomes untenable!
First, a correction that's NOT a correction!!
I reported in my previous post that Thiago Braz's 19-2.75 PV had defeated---among others--Renaud Lavillenie!!
Then I saw T&FN's eTN on Monday!
The results for the Rouen (France) meet did have Braz winning, but Lavillenie's name was absent!!
DID he compete there?
I rechecked the meet results, and he indeed DID compete---but ended up in 7th place!!
The eTN results went only 6 places deep---so no Lavillenie!!
(Why you NEED my blog---for DETAILED results!!!)
In other news---
Airine Palayte HJ'ed 6-6.75 for the National Record of Lithuania!
Jorge Urena's 6249 Heptathlon score is the National Record of Spain!
Katie Jones leads the HS Pole Vaulter's with her 13-6.50 mark!
This makes her 15th A-T HS---no ties!
LaPorscha Wells threw the WT 73-11.
She's 14th A-T Collegiate, tied with 2 others!
As for Dusseldorf---
Probably the best marks---Well, the only Record breakers!--came from Ageless Kim Collins!
This phenom TWICE broke his own Age 40 record in the 60!
He'd run 6.64 earlier this season to "set" the record!
In Dusseldorf, he broke it in his heat with a 6.58!
Then broke it again in the final with a 6.56!
Sandi Morris took the PV with a jump of 15-5.75.
She missed thrice at 15-9.75!
Elijah Manangoi won the 1500 in 3:37.62, a World leader!
Also getting World leaders were--
Adam Kszczot took the 800 in 1:46.17.
Dimitri Bascou, with a 60H in 7.51.
Joanna Jozwik with her 2:00.91 in the 800.
The Women's 60 was a good race, but no World leading mark!
Olesya Povh won in 7.16, but close behind were Barbara Pierre (7.17), Asha Philip (7.18), and Gina Luckenkemper (7.19).
See you soon!
But what about the sport of Track and Field this INdoor season?
Is it "sunny" there too---or will we have 6 more weeks of T&F "winter"?
Let's take a peek in this "extra" post!
BTW, I will have a few marks to report, but am saving those for the end!
Donald Trump became the US President two weeks ago today!
There's been nothing but controversy ever since--in the world of politics.
But how---if at all!!--does this affect our sport!
Aside from speculation about the US bid for the 2024 Olympics, the main source of angst seems to be about his Executive Order on Muslim Immigration!
Sir Mo Farah was concerned!
Lopez Lomong spoke out.
The Twitterverse has gone bonkers on Trump's actions!
BUT---all seems to be okay---as it affects our sport!
Iulia (Or is it Julia?) Stepanova was the key whistleblower in the Russian drug skullduggery!
And she ran the 800 in Boston's IAAF World Tour meet!
(More on the Tour below!)
Her time of 2:05.14 (As her coach predicted, she said later!) wasn't special, but her BEING THERE was!!
Yes, Darya Klishina was a Russian in Rio last summer!
But Stepanova was a Russian in the US of A just days ago!!
And a welcomed one at that!!
In the post-race interview (through an interpreter!), she said she wasn't afraid, and indeed felt safe here!
She smiled, even laughed (in interactions with her interpreter).
IMO, I'm thrilled she competed, and hope to see her (and other CLEAN Russians!) in future meets!
No, I won't go into one of my "rants" on Oversize Tracks here!
What I WILL do is CASTIGATE the SEC (and/or the NCAA authorities) for scheduling a MAJOR Collegiate Conference meet for an OT!!
Yes, the SEC's will be on Vanderbilt's 300 meter monster!!
Where NO RACE longer than 60 meters will be eligible for A-T lists or Records!!
NONE!!
If a "Collegiate Record" is run in the Women's 1000---as is quite possible---it will NOT count!!
This is more than sad--this is STUPID!!
(I believe the Big 10 Conference meet is scheduled for the SPIRE, with ITS 300 meter track!!)
Every season---INdoors and OUTdoors---brings with it its share of redshirts, injuries, major illnesses, school leavings (As Jasmine Todd left UO last year!).
That's expected!
But there's also those athletes who just choose to not compete INdoors---for whatever reason!
Among those THIS year are---
Demi Payne (Word is, she's in Texas training! But for INdoors? Questionable!)
Brigetta Barrett (She's retired!)
Mary Cain (Who knows??)
Usain Bolt & SAFP (Bolt is in Australia for their upcoming "Nitro" series of meets---OUTdoors! As for SAFP, she rarely competes INdoors!)
Galen Rupp (Holder of the 3000, Two Mile, and 5000 INdoor AR's, he's locked into the 10K & Marathon, so is unlikely to compete INdoors---ever again!!)
Molly Huddle (Also into the longer stuff, so NO INdoors!!)
What's "new" to my T&F Record Book---and thus also to this blog?
After the big numbers put up in the 300's this year, I finally drew up A-T Top 24 Performers lists (DDD's) for that event.
As earlier noted, the HS, US, and World lists were relatively simple to get together!
But the Collegiate lists are only halfway there (Through 11th for the Men, and 12th for the Women!).
In earlier years, I added the 1000's and the 600's, as well as Relay lists!
Also, my posts seem to be lengthening.
This is in part due to my personal situation, as my health doesn't always allow for 2 or 3 posts per week, every week!
So I have to cram EVERYthing into one LONG weekly post!!
I'll TRY to do more---just don't expect it!
That said, I will continue to cover---and even ADD!---"odd" events to my coverage---those "lost souls" unloved & even unwanted!
Such as the aforementioned 300's & 600's, but also the 50K Walk for Women!
As for those 300's & 600's, they have been this season's dominant individual events, as the Distance Medley Relay has been "busy" in the team aspect of the sport!
Here's the evidence!
I did a count of my DDD entries for 2017 on January 31st!
As of that date, here's the data.
Ninety eight (98) marks dated as 2017 (Which does NOT count those 2016-2017 season marks made in December!!) are on my INdoor DDD's!
58 are by Women, 40 by Men.
In 2015 and 2016, the final numbers reached 373 and 372!!
(I expect the usual 300+ by season's end!)
23 are from the 600!
20 are from the 300!
14 are on the WT lists!
Only 8 (so far!) are from the Pole Vault!
ZERO marks come from the Men's 60, 400, 1000, 3000, 2 Mile, 5000, HJ, LJ, TJ, and WT
The Women's lists come up empty in the 60, 400, 1500, Mile, 2 Mile, HJ, and the Pentathlon!
(I did NOT count the 2000's!)
Here's how the 4 core groups played out!
HS'ers have 28 marks, with 14 each for Men and Women!
Collegiates have 24 marks, with 10 for Men, and 14 for Women!
US Women more than double the count of US Men, 19 to 9!
World Women have 11, while World Men have 7.
How will THIS weekend's action change things??
As for the core group's in the Records department, it's been a good year so far!!
But let's peek at 2016 first!
Last year, the Men broke--
2 WR's
3 US Records
4 CR's
6 HSR's
The Women broke--
4 WR's
3 US
6 CR's
and
13 HSR's!!!
Totals were--
6 WR's
6 US
10 CR's
19 HSR's!
Knowing that the final totals should (Will??) be greatly enhanced by the Championship meets (USATF, NCAA, European Champs, and the NBIN), here's the numbers---so far!--for 2017!
Men
WR's for Emmanuel Korir and Casimir Loxsom!
AR's go to Loxsom!
CR's for Korir, Isaiah Harris, and Texas A&M's 4X400 Relayists!
HSR's for Tyrese Cooper, Jordan Geist (that 16 lb SP---which still ranks 3rd in the WORLD, according to Tilastopaia!!!), Mondo Duplantis, and Trey Cunningham!
Women
WR's go to the US team in the DMR!
AR's to that DMR team, and Quanera Hayes!
CR's to Kaela Edwards and the UO DMR team!
HSR's go to Sammy Watson and the Lake Braddock DMR squad!
(Special Mention goes to Candace Hill, who nabbed TWO of my own HS PRO records---in the 60 and 300!!)
So, EXcluding those HS PRO marks, we have, total--
WR's (3)
AR's (3)
CR's (5)
HSR's (6)
Expect a LOT more!!
Sooooo, the IAAF World Tour!
Let's just say my expectations were MUCH bigger and expansive than the reality---thus far, after 2 meets---presents!
WHY?
Well, the same happens with their OUTdoor equivalents, the Diamond League meets!
(Am I wrong to connect the two---beyond that both are IAAF created and produced?)
Some comments on the T&FN MB suggest that the "poor" marks from the 1st two meets (Boston and Dusseldorf--See below for some marks from the latter!) are due to--
No INdoor WC this year, but an OUTdoor WC which many athletes are focusing on!
The usual antipathy to INdoor---period!
Post-Olympics, so athletes are just now getting into serious training for 2017!
Whatever the reasons (excuses!!), this season has been relatively slow to grow!
(Despite the numbers presented above!)
But can we blame it all on the grandiosity of the IAAF World Tour?
That "grandiosity" was partly MY fault!
I was the one who equated these 5 meets to the 14 OUTdoor DL's!
Was I wrong?
In response to the T&FN Message Board folks, I would suggest they look to the first 2 meets of the DL season---in Doha and Shanghai!
Study the marks that emerge from those meets!
Pretty good, I'd say!
In totality, the World Tour meets are weaker!
This of course could be (IS?) due to the reasons stated above!!
INdoors just isn't seen as important to many athletes as one (I...!!) would want!!
That's the reality!
But, that said, the fields for the Karlsruhe meet are pretty damn strong!!
Check back Sunday morning for the detailed results!
And now for the NEWS!
I decided to report these now---just in case the weekend meets produce such a gigantic amount of great Records & Marks that the post's length becomes untenable!
First, a correction that's NOT a correction!!
I reported in my previous post that Thiago Braz's 19-2.75 PV had defeated---among others--Renaud Lavillenie!!
Then I saw T&FN's eTN on Monday!
The results for the Rouen (France) meet did have Braz winning, but Lavillenie's name was absent!!
DID he compete there?
I rechecked the meet results, and he indeed DID compete---but ended up in 7th place!!
The eTN results went only 6 places deep---so no Lavillenie!!
(Why you NEED my blog---for DETAILED results!!!)
In other news---
Airine Palayte HJ'ed 6-6.75 for the National Record of Lithuania!
Jorge Urena's 6249 Heptathlon score is the National Record of Spain!
Katie Jones leads the HS Pole Vaulter's with her 13-6.50 mark!
This makes her 15th A-T HS---no ties!
LaPorscha Wells threw the WT 73-11.
She's 14th A-T Collegiate, tied with 2 others!
As for Dusseldorf---
Probably the best marks---Well, the only Record breakers!--came from Ageless Kim Collins!
This phenom TWICE broke his own Age 40 record in the 60!
He'd run 6.64 earlier this season to "set" the record!
In Dusseldorf, he broke it in his heat with a 6.58!
Then broke it again in the final with a 6.56!
Sandi Morris took the PV with a jump of 15-5.75.
She missed thrice at 15-9.75!
Elijah Manangoi won the 1500 in 3:37.62, a World leader!
Also getting World leaders were--
Adam Kszczot took the 800 in 1:46.17.
Dimitri Bascou, with a 60H in 7.51.
Joanna Jozwik with her 2:00.91 in the 800.
The Women's 60 was a good race, but no World leading mark!
Olesya Povh won in 7.16, but close behind were Barbara Pierre (7.17), Asha Philip (7.18), and Gina Luckenkemper (7.19).
See you soon!
Sunday, January 29, 2017
Records Fall Far Beyond Boston
Three women and a young lady salvaged a Boston meet that fell far short of what one would expect from an IAAF World Tour event--compared by me as the INdoor equivalent of the OUTdoor Diamond League series!
In another European meet, Thiago Braz again defeated Renaud Lavillenie (Remember Rio??), his 19-2.75 the winning height!
In the always-PV-potent Razorback meet, the Weeks twins tore through the heights like melted butter, with Tori again topping sister Lexi.
Tied for the Collegiate lead coming in, she became the sole leader, clearing a PR of 14-10.25!!
(She attempted 15-0.25, but didn't make it!)
She moves from 22nd A-T Collegiate all the way up to 7th, tied with 1 other!!
She also becomes 22nd A-T US, tied with 2 others!
Lexi got her best mark of 2017, a 14-6.25.
She said she got a late start, due to her being an Olympian last year!!
Desiree Freier was a DNS, as she was listed as an entry!
In Seattle, new Oiselle member Megan Clark got unraveled, and hit 14-11, winning the meet!
Kortney Ross was 2nd with 14-8.25!
Logan Cunningham's 18-4.50 took the Seattle Men's event!
In other PV news--
Chris Nilsen reached 18-2.50.
Katie Nageotte got over 14-8.25 at Penn State.
Lucy Bryan, an Akron Frosh, was 2nd with 14-0.50.
An old mark, but Mondo Duplantis cleared 18-2.50 last week!
He missed his tries at 18-6.50!
The Boston 3000's were OK.
Sprint times were decent, but nothing splashy!
First, yet another ERROR by me!!
Remember me writing about Olivia Friedrichs's 8.20 over 60H being the HS leader?
It's NOT!
The timing was BAD, and WRONG!!
So Tara Davis remains the leader with her 8.31.
Sasha Wallace tied her PR of last year, her 7.91 becoming the Collegiate leader in the 60H!
In Erfurt, Germany, Rebeka (sp?) Haase sped a 60 flat in 7.14 to take the World lead!
But then Hannah Cunliffe nipped that with her 7.13 in NYC for the World, American, and Collegiate lead!
Deajah Stevens was 2nd in 7.23.
But Stevens returned the next day with a Collegiate (and World) leading 200 of 22.65!!
This makes her 14th A-T Collegiate!
She is 13th A-T US.
She misses the World DDD by just 0.07 seconds!!
Ironically, Cunliffe was cut OFF the US list, her time having been 22.85 from 2016!
Cunliffe, however, followed in 23.00, with Harvard's Gabrielle Thomas a tick back in 23.01.
Carly Muscaro took the Boston U 400 in 52.27.
Sharrika Barnett ran a 400 in 52.07 to win at the Razorback meet!
Deanna Hill sped a 200 in 22.94.
Christian Coleman's 20.49 became the World, US, and Collegiate leader!
He misses the Collegiate DDD by 0.03 seconds, the US list by 0.07 seconds, and the World DDD by 0.09 seconds!!
Second was Fred Kerley---who would run lead-off for Texas A&M's CR 4X400 Relay (See above!)--in 20.58, a PR!
Kim Collins is now the Age 40 record holder for the 60, his 6.64 filling the gap!
Expect some improvement there!!
ANOTHER biggie!!
Trey Cunniingham began 2017 with a bang in the HS 60H!
Well, that bang got a whole lot louder!
His latest--7.49--breaks Grant Holloway's HSR by 0.04 seconds!!
It's also the Senior Class record!
He moves from 3rd A-T HS, tied with 1 other, to 1st!!
Moving to OUTdoors for a bit, we have an American Record to report!
Katie Burnett WALKED 50,000 meters in 4:26:37 to claim the AR in this new event for Women!!
In Jamaica, Elaine Thompson sped an OUTdoor 60 meters in 7.02, a wind of 1.7 at her back!
(See the difference between an OUTdoor and INdoor 60??)
Christiane Williams took 2nd in 7.05!
Julian Forte took the Men's race in 6.55, wind of 1.3!
Fedrick Dacres threw the Discus 225-3, the National Record for Jamaica!
It's also the Age 22 record!!
Back to INdoors, more stuff--a wide variety!!
Mikiah Brisco sped 60 meters in 7.19, missing my Collegiate DDD by 0.02 seconds!
Raven Saunders took the Razorback SP with 60-7.25!
Shelby Ashe took the WT with her Collegiate best of 71-4.75!
(She has a 71-10.25 PR, but that came at the USATF meet, AFTER the NCAA!!)
A sudden emergence from total obscurity saw Belarus's Gleb Budorov--a Kansas Frosh!!--throw the WT 75-5.50!!
This was his FIRST Collegiate meet!!
And he gets the Frosh Class record!!
He's now 21st A-T Collegiate!!
At first, I thought this mark was questionable!
But there's an article in the U of Kansas online paper about it--and him!!
Kendell Williams took a good Razorback Pentathlon with 4476 points!
Kelsey Herman's 4278 took 2nd, but misses my Collegiate list by 49 points!
Leigha Brown's 4257 misses the Collegiate DDD by 70 points!
Keturah Orji got the Razorback LJ with 21-9, which rates her 23rd A-T Collegiate!
She misses the US list by 1.25 inches!
She didn't do her TJ specialty!
Yulimar Rojas--whom Orji battled with in Rio for a podium spot--TJ'ed 48-6.25, improving her Venezuela National Record by about 4 inches!
She moves from 24th A-T World to 19th!
And she gets the Age 21 record too!!
Alina Shukh of Ukraine scored 4550 points in the Pentathlon, breaking the World Age 17 record!!
The Boston 800 saw Charlene Lipsey defeating Habitam Alemu, 2:02.01 to 2:02.38, with Lynsey Sharp 3rd!
Sammy Watson finished in 2:03.94, a PR by 1.17 seconds!
This moves her from 6th A-T HS to 3rd!
In 7th was Russian whistle-blower Iulia Stepanova!
Her time was 2:05.14!
In the Junior Men's Mile in Boston, DJ Principe LOST!!
The 4:00.97 Miler was defeated by Josh Hoey, 4:09.26 to 4:12.34!
English Gardner took the Boston 60 in 7.17, with Dezerea Bryant 2nd in 7.19.
Gianna Rao improved her HS WT distance to 60-8, moving her from 22nd A-T HS to 11th!!
In the BU meet, Spain's Esther Guerro's 2:01.72 took the 800 from Cory McGee's 2:02.20 and Megan Krumpoch's 2:02.22.
Elinor Purrier took the Mile in 4:34.48!
Here's my usual list of OT marks---all from Seattle, of course!!
Barbara Nwaba scored 4376 Pentathlon points!
Justyn Knight took the Men's Mile in 3:59.64, with Andy Wheating and Brannon Kidder also sub-4!
Brie Felnagle ran a fast Mile in 4:27.27!
Too bad it's worthless for list purposes!!
Alexa Efraimson was 2nd in 4:30.49.
Kate Grace took the 800--sporting her new NIKE gear!!!--in 2:02.29!
The Women's 3000 was won by a nameless Canadian, but 2nd went to Christina Aragon, with Brenna Peloquin back in 14th!
(There were several sections!)
In 26th came 13 year old Grace Ping, her 9:33.85 a great time, OT or not!!
So the New Balance Boston meet wasn't the greatest!
When you have numerous other meets---small & large--a bit known, or not---that give up all kinds of top-end Marks & Records--including a WORLD Record!!---who needs the IAAF--or Boston?
(Half-kidding here, folks!)
Yes, the 4-some collectively known as the USA All-Stars--individually as Emma Coburn, Sydney McLaughlin, Brenda Martinez, and Jenny Simpson--came through in the penultimate event of a generally dull night!
The World (and American) Record they broke was essentially their own, although just Martinez ran with the earlier record-breakers--and on a different leg!!
Coburn's 3:18 over 1200 was 3 seconds slower than wanted, as she appeared a bit heavy-legged.
But McLaughlin, coming off a speedy 300, tore up a 52 for the 400, handing off to Martinez!
Despite still being in tempo-shape, she tore through the first 400, then held on over the final 150 to run a good 2:01.9 for 800!
Dependable Jenny calmly belted out a 4:27 (almost exactly matching Martinez's anchor from 2015), sealing the WR!
Their time of 10:40.31 was quite a bit slower than their potential, but it took 2.26 seconds off the old record!
A European NB team took 2nd in 10:49.39, with the NB Boston team 6 seconds back in 10:55.93!
When you have numerous other meets---small & large--a bit known, or not---that give up all kinds of top-end Marks & Records--including a WORLD Record!!---who needs the IAAF--or Boston?
(Half-kidding here, folks!)
Yes, the 4-some collectively known as the USA All-Stars--individually as Emma Coburn, Sydney McLaughlin, Brenda Martinez, and Jenny Simpson--came through in the penultimate event of a generally dull night!
The World (and American) Record they broke was essentially their own, although just Martinez ran with the earlier record-breakers--and on a different leg!!
Coburn's 3:18 over 1200 was 3 seconds slower than wanted, as she appeared a bit heavy-legged.
But McLaughlin, coming off a speedy 300, tore up a 52 for the 400, handing off to Martinez!
Despite still being in tempo-shape, she tore through the first 400, then held on over the final 150 to run a good 2:01.9 for 800!
Dependable Jenny calmly belted out a 4:27 (almost exactly matching Martinez's anchor from 2015), sealing the WR!
Their time of 10:40.31 was quite a bit slower than their potential, but it took 2.26 seconds off the old record!
A European NB team took 2nd in 10:49.39, with the NB Boston team 6 seconds back in 10:55.93!
You can find great interviews with all 4 women on You Tube!
Those oddballs, the 600 and the 300 (especially the former!), played a huge role in how this weekend played out!
Just days after Emmanuel Korir shocked the track world by breaking the World & Collegiate records in the 600, Casimir Loxsom and Izaiah Harris did the same!!
At the Penn State meet, Loxsom and Harris dueled to the tape, Loxsom's 1:14.91 taking the WR, while Harris's 1:14.96 nabbed Korir's CR by a mere 0.01 seconds!!
Just days after Emmanuel Korir shocked the track world by breaking the World & Collegiate records in the 600, Casimir Loxsom and Izaiah Harris did the same!!
At the Penn State meet, Loxsom and Harris dueled to the tape, Loxsom's 1:14.91 taking the WR, while Harris's 1:14.96 nabbed Korir's CR by a mere 0.01 seconds!!
For Loxsom, he got the WR, AR, and the Age 25 record!
He took down his own AR!!
He moved from 5th to 1st on the A-T World list!
For Harris, besides the CR, he gets the Soph Class record and the Age 20 record!
He moved from 5th to 1st on the A-T World list!
For Harris, besides the CR, he gets the Soph Class record and the Age 20 record!
(His birthdate is October 18, 1996.)
He becomes 2nd on both the World & US lists!
And it doesn't stop there!
First, I found out Korir's birthdate--it's June 15, 1995!
So he got the Age 21 record for his 1:14.97!
In "old" news, I found out the Iowa City track is NOT Oversize!!
So Erik Sowinski's 1:16.45 time there last week was legit!
And it doesn't stop there!
First, I found out Korir's birthdate--it's June 15, 1995!
So he got the Age 21 record for his 1:14.97!
In "old" news, I found out the Iowa City track is NOT Oversize!!
So Erik Sowinski's 1:16.45 time there last week was legit!
So was Jaymes Dennison's 1:16.84.
That makes him 7th A-T Collegiate!
Carter Lilly's time of 1:17.30 makes him 18th A-T Collegiate!
Carter Lilly's time of 1:17.30 makes him 18th A-T Collegiate!
Daniel Kuhn ran a 600 in 1:15.88, and collecting the Collegiate Junior Class record in the process!!
He moves from 9th A-T Collegiate, tied with 1 other, to 5th.
He moves from 18th A-T US, tied with 1 other, to 7th!
And he makes the World list as well--in 18th place!
He moves from 9th A-T Collegiate, tied with 1 other, to 5th.
He moves from 18th A-T US, tied with 1 other, to 7th!
And he makes the World list as well--in 18th place!
Staying with the Men, the Boston race produced a rookie DQ for Duane Solomon!
He cut in right after the first curve--one curve too early!!
So it was left to Donavan Brazier to take the win, his 1:16.57 making him 16th A-T US!
The Women had a good one too, theirs in the Clemson meet!
Natoya Goule got the W, her 1:25.76 making her 9th A-T World, tied with 1 other!
It also gave her the National Record of Jamaica!
Second went to Marilyn Okoro, who improved her time from a week or so ago, down to 1:25.89!
But this needs an explanation!
In my previous post, I said her other time was a British National Record!
NOPE!!
Jenny Meadows holds that distinction, her 1:25.81 dating from 2007!!
MY error!!
Another explanation--this one more fun!
Okoro WAS 24th A-T World!
Then, DURING this race, Goule kicked her OFF the list!
The Women had a good one too, theirs in the Clemson meet!
Natoya Goule got the W, her 1:25.76 making her 9th A-T World, tied with 1 other!
It also gave her the National Record of Jamaica!
Second went to Marilyn Okoro, who improved her time from a week or so ago, down to 1:25.89!
But this needs an explanation!
In my previous post, I said her other time was a British National Record!
NOPE!!
Jenny Meadows holds that distinction, her 1:25.81 dating from 2007!!
MY error!!
Another explanation--this one more fun!
Okoro WAS 24th A-T World!
Then, DURING this race, Goule kicked her OFF the list!
Then she got back ON---in a big way--all the way to 15th A-T World!!
Okoro does break her own Age 32 record, however!
In 3rd came Latavia Thomas's 1:28.01.
She moves from 24th A-T US to 13th!!
And Madeline Kopp, next in 1:28.48, gets 13th A-T Collegiate!
And 23rd A-T US!
Taken OFF my US list was Sammy Watson, whose HSR of 1:28.67 from last week is no longer US ranked!!
WHEW!!
The Boston 300's were okay!
Noah Lyles out-sprinted veteran Vernon Norwood, winning the Boston race in 32.67, a PR!
It's the Meet Record.
He's now 8th A-T US, tied with 2 others!
And he gets 15th A-T World, also tied with 2 others!
Norwood's 33.17 was not a PR!
BTW, I've got another Correction to make!
In the post where I wrote of Lyles's rust-busting 60 & 200, I intimated he was a Collegian!
He's a PRO!!
Sorry, Noah!!
Okoro does break her own Age 32 record, however!
In 3rd came Latavia Thomas's 1:28.01.
She moves from 24th A-T US to 13th!!
And Madeline Kopp, next in 1:28.48, gets 13th A-T Collegiate!
And 23rd A-T US!
Taken OFF my US list was Sammy Watson, whose HSR of 1:28.67 from last week is no longer US ranked!!
WHEW!!
The Boston 300's were okay!
Noah Lyles out-sprinted veteran Vernon Norwood, winning the Boston race in 32.67, a PR!
It's the Meet Record.
He's now 8th A-T US, tied with 2 others!
And he gets 15th A-T World, also tied with 2 others!
Norwood's 33.17 was not a PR!
BTW, I've got another Correction to make!
In the post where I wrote of Lyles's rust-busting 60 & 200, I intimated he was a Collegian!
He's a PRO!!
Sorry, Noah!!
In the Women's race, Candace Hill got out quick, but Courtney Okolo finished quicker!
Her 36.87 is ranked 14th A-T US!
She misses the World list by 0.15 seconds!
Let's change gears, and go to the always popular Pole Vault!
Lots of ups---and a down or 2--to report!
Piotr Lisek broke his own National Record of Poland, clearing 19-5!
He moves from 20th A-T World, tied with ELEVEN others, to 15th, where he's tied with a measly 3 others!!
Her 36.87 is ranked 14th A-T US!
She misses the World list by 0.15 seconds!
Let's change gears, and go to the always popular Pole Vault!
Lots of ups---and a down or 2--to report!
Piotr Lisek broke his own National Record of Poland, clearing 19-5!
He moves from 20th A-T World, tied with ELEVEN others, to 15th, where he's tied with a measly 3 others!!
In another European meet, Thiago Braz again defeated Renaud Lavillenie (Remember Rio??), his 19-2.75 the winning height!
In the always-PV-potent Razorback meet, the Weeks twins tore through the heights like melted butter, with Tori again topping sister Lexi.
Tied for the Collegiate lead coming in, she became the sole leader, clearing a PR of 14-10.25!!
(She attempted 15-0.25, but didn't make it!)
She moves from 22nd A-T Collegiate all the way up to 7th, tied with 1 other!!
She also becomes 22nd A-T US, tied with 2 others!
Lexi got her best mark of 2017, a 14-6.25.
She said she got a late start, due to her being an Olympian last year!!
Desiree Freier was a DNS, as she was listed as an entry!
In Seattle, new Oiselle member Megan Clark got unraveled, and hit 14-11, winning the meet!
Kortney Ross was 2nd with 14-8.25!
Logan Cunningham's 18-4.50 took the Seattle Men's event!
In other PV news--
Chris Nilsen reached 18-2.50.
Katie Nageotte got over 14-8.25 at Penn State.
Lucy Bryan, an Akron Frosh, was 2nd with 14-0.50.
An old mark, but Mondo Duplantis cleared 18-2.50 last week!
He missed his tries at 18-6.50!
And on the "down" side, Jenn Suhr fell DOWN---in the planting box.
Not badly hurt, she nonetheless withdrew from the Boston meet after that 1st attempt at her 1st height!
Ekaterina Stefanidi won easily, her mark a lowly 15-2.25!
Alysha Newman took 2nd with 14-10.25!
Back to the Records business!!
The University of Oregon visited The Armory in NYC!
Far from home, the 4 women comprising UO's Distance Medley Relay team finally removed their sisters from the University of Tennessee from the Record Books!!
UT's 10:50.98, dating from 2009, is no more!
UO's 10:48.77 is the new Collegiate Record!
Lilli Burdon ran 3:20.6 for 1200, followed by Ashante Horsley's 53.8 for 400!
Then came Raevyn Rogers's 2:03.5 cruiser 800, followed by Frosh sensation Katie Rainsberger's 4:30.9 over 1600!
They move from 4th A-T School to 1st!
Not badly hurt, she nonetheless withdrew from the Boston meet after that 1st attempt at her 1st height!
Ekaterina Stefanidi won easily, her mark a lowly 15-2.25!
Alysha Newman took 2nd with 14-10.25!
Back to the Records business!!
The University of Oregon visited The Armory in NYC!
Far from home, the 4 women comprising UO's Distance Medley Relay team finally removed their sisters from the University of Tennessee from the Record Books!!
UT's 10:50.98, dating from 2009, is no more!
UO's 10:48.77 is the new Collegiate Record!
Lilli Burdon ran 3:20.6 for 1200, followed by Ashante Horsley's 53.8 for 400!
Then came Raevyn Rogers's 2:03.5 cruiser 800, followed by Frosh sensation Katie Rainsberger's 4:30.9 over 1600!
They move from 4th A-T School to 1st!
The UO Men ran a decent time of 9:30.86, but not a PR!
Ed Cheserek anchored with 3:54.6!
At Penn State, Stanford's Women DMR'ed 11:01.39, also not a PR!
Georgetown took the Men's race in 9:33.89, with Stanford and Middle Tennessee State within one second space behind!
Ed Cheserek anchored with 3:54.6!
At Penn State, Stanford's Women DMR'ed 11:01.39, also not a PR!
Georgetown took the Men's race in 9:33.89, with Stanford and Middle Tennessee State within one second space behind!
The Razorback meet's DMR's were won by both Oklahoma State teams, the Men in 9:33.93, the Women in 11:08.15.
Mississippi and LSU were close behind in the respective races!
TONS more to report, so hang in there---this is gonna be a LONG one!!
Another BIG Relay record went down!
The Men of Texas A&M erased their own 4X400 Collegiate Record from 2 years ago, with a time of 3:02.52!
But it was Fred Kerley's LEAD OFF leg of 44.96 that really shocked & awed!!
We haven't seen any OPEN 400's INdoors at sub-45 for---years??
And his younger brother Mylik Kerley anchored in 45.30!
Richard Rose and Devin Dixon were the middle legs!
This was at the Razorback meet!
Mississippi and LSU were close behind in the respective races!
TONS more to report, so hang in there---this is gonna be a LONG one!!
Another BIG Relay record went down!
The Men of Texas A&M erased their own 4X400 Collegiate Record from 2 years ago, with a time of 3:02.52!
But it was Fred Kerley's LEAD OFF leg of 44.96 that really shocked & awed!!
We haven't seen any OPEN 400's INdoors at sub-45 for---years??
And his younger brother Mylik Kerley anchored in 45.30!
Richard Rose and Devin Dixon were the middle legs!
This was at the Razorback meet!
The Boston 3000's were OK.
Helen Obiri decided to cruise, and everyone agreed!
So her hugely negative split race ended in 8:39.08, ahead of Sifan Hassan's 8:40.94, and Shannon Rowbury's 8:41.94.
The latter improved her PR, moving Rowbury from 10th A-T US to 5th!
Since my 2000 meter INdoor list is short of 24 names, I'm putting any "official" time under 6 minutes on there to fill it up!
So Rowbury's 2000 split of 5:52.88 makes her 12th A-T US on my 2000 DDD.
Leah O'Connor's 5:56.18 becomes 17th A-T US!
And Shannon Osika's 5:58.45 is 19th A-T US!!
The Men's race was also a snorer, with Paul Chelimo claiming his first INdoor win for the US in a non-PR of 7:42.39!
At Penn State, Tessa Barrett's 9:07.22 beat Tori Gerlach's 9:10.09 for 2 good Collegiate times!
Danae Rivers ran the Mile in 4:34.87, the Collegiate leader!
Remember, she's just a Frosh!
In the NY meet, Cheserek turned over a 7:46.85 for an easy 3000 win!
Kyle Merber and John Gregorek were left about 3 seconds behind!
The day after the UO DMR win (and CR!), Raevyn Rogers returned to run the fastest Collegiate 800 of 2017, time of 2:01.75!
Rogers misses the Junior Class record by 0.10 seconds!!
In 2nd came Clairigh (sp?) Buttner's 2:02.97!
This makes her 15th A-T Collegiate!!
In Virginia, Chantz Sawyers ran 500 meters in 1:02.10.
In Arkansas, Karissa Schweizer won the Razorback Mile in 4:35.61.
So her hugely negative split race ended in 8:39.08, ahead of Sifan Hassan's 8:40.94, and Shannon Rowbury's 8:41.94.
The latter improved her PR, moving Rowbury from 10th A-T US to 5th!
Since my 2000 meter INdoor list is short of 24 names, I'm putting any "official" time under 6 minutes on there to fill it up!
So Rowbury's 2000 split of 5:52.88 makes her 12th A-T US on my 2000 DDD.
Leah O'Connor's 5:56.18 becomes 17th A-T US!
And Shannon Osika's 5:58.45 is 19th A-T US!!
The Men's race was also a snorer, with Paul Chelimo claiming his first INdoor win for the US in a non-PR of 7:42.39!
At Penn State, Tessa Barrett's 9:07.22 beat Tori Gerlach's 9:10.09 for 2 good Collegiate times!
Danae Rivers ran the Mile in 4:34.87, the Collegiate leader!
Remember, she's just a Frosh!
In the NY meet, Cheserek turned over a 7:46.85 for an easy 3000 win!
Kyle Merber and John Gregorek were left about 3 seconds behind!
The day after the UO DMR win (and CR!), Raevyn Rogers returned to run the fastest Collegiate 800 of 2017, time of 2:01.75!
Rogers misses the Junior Class record by 0.10 seconds!!
In 2nd came Clairigh (sp?) Buttner's 2:02.97!
This makes her 15th A-T Collegiate!!
In Virginia, Chantz Sawyers ran 500 meters in 1:02.10.
In Arkansas, Karissa Schweizer won the Razorback Mile in 4:35.61.
Sprint times were decent, but nothing splashy!
First, yet another ERROR by me!!
Remember me writing about Olivia Friedrichs's 8.20 over 60H being the HS leader?
It's NOT!
The timing was BAD, and WRONG!!
So Tara Davis remains the leader with her 8.31.
Sasha Wallace tied her PR of last year, her 7.91 becoming the Collegiate leader in the 60H!
In Erfurt, Germany, Rebeka (sp?) Haase sped a 60 flat in 7.14 to take the World lead!
But then Hannah Cunliffe nipped that with her 7.13 in NYC for the World, American, and Collegiate lead!
Deajah Stevens was 2nd in 7.23.
But Stevens returned the next day with a Collegiate (and World) leading 200 of 22.65!!
This makes her 14th A-T Collegiate!
She is 13th A-T US.
She misses the World DDD by just 0.07 seconds!!
Ironically, Cunliffe was cut OFF the US list, her time having been 22.85 from 2016!
Cunliffe, however, followed in 23.00, with Harvard's Gabrielle Thomas a tick back in 23.01.
Carly Muscaro took the Boston U 400 in 52.27.
Sharrika Barnett ran a 400 in 52.07 to win at the Razorback meet!
Deanna Hill sped a 200 in 22.94.
Christian Coleman's 20.49 became the World, US, and Collegiate leader!
He misses the Collegiate DDD by 0.03 seconds, the US list by 0.07 seconds, and the World DDD by 0.09 seconds!!
Second was Fred Kerley---who would run lead-off for Texas A&M's CR 4X400 Relay (See above!)--in 20.58, a PR!
Kim Collins is now the Age 40 record holder for the 60, his 6.64 filling the gap!
Expect some improvement there!!
ANOTHER biggie!!
Trey Cunniingham began 2017 with a bang in the HS 60H!
Well, that bang got a whole lot louder!
His latest--7.49--breaks Grant Holloway's HSR by 0.04 seconds!!
It's also the Senior Class record!
He moves from 3rd A-T HS, tied with 1 other, to 1st!!
Moving to OUTdoors for a bit, we have an American Record to report!
Katie Burnett WALKED 50,000 meters in 4:26:37 to claim the AR in this new event for Women!!
In Jamaica, Elaine Thompson sped an OUTdoor 60 meters in 7.02, a wind of 1.7 at her back!
(See the difference between an OUTdoor and INdoor 60??)
Christiane Williams took 2nd in 7.05!
Julian Forte took the Men's race in 6.55, wind of 1.3!
Fedrick Dacres threw the Discus 225-3, the National Record for Jamaica!
It's also the Age 22 record!!
Back to INdoors, more stuff--a wide variety!!
Mikiah Brisco sped 60 meters in 7.19, missing my Collegiate DDD by 0.02 seconds!
Raven Saunders took the Razorback SP with 60-7.25!
Shelby Ashe took the WT with her Collegiate best of 71-4.75!
(She has a 71-10.25 PR, but that came at the USATF meet, AFTER the NCAA!!)
A sudden emergence from total obscurity saw Belarus's Gleb Budorov--a Kansas Frosh!!--throw the WT 75-5.50!!
This was his FIRST Collegiate meet!!
And he gets the Frosh Class record!!
He's now 21st A-T Collegiate!!
At first, I thought this mark was questionable!
But there's an article in the U of Kansas online paper about it--and him!!
Kendell Williams took a good Razorback Pentathlon with 4476 points!
Kelsey Herman's 4278 took 2nd, but misses my Collegiate list by 49 points!
Leigha Brown's 4257 misses the Collegiate DDD by 70 points!
Keturah Orji got the Razorback LJ with 21-9, which rates her 23rd A-T Collegiate!
She misses the US list by 1.25 inches!
She didn't do her TJ specialty!
Yulimar Rojas--whom Orji battled with in Rio for a podium spot--TJ'ed 48-6.25, improving her Venezuela National Record by about 4 inches!
She moves from 24th A-T World to 19th!
And she gets the Age 21 record too!!
Alina Shukh of Ukraine scored 4550 points in the Pentathlon, breaking the World Age 17 record!!
The Boston 800 saw Charlene Lipsey defeating Habitam Alemu, 2:02.01 to 2:02.38, with Lynsey Sharp 3rd!
Sammy Watson finished in 2:03.94, a PR by 1.17 seconds!
This moves her from 6th A-T HS to 3rd!
In 7th was Russian whistle-blower Iulia Stepanova!
Her time was 2:05.14!
In the Junior Men's Mile in Boston, DJ Principe LOST!!
The 4:00.97 Miler was defeated by Josh Hoey, 4:09.26 to 4:12.34!
English Gardner took the Boston 60 in 7.17, with Dezerea Bryant 2nd in 7.19.
Gianna Rao improved her HS WT distance to 60-8, moving her from 22nd A-T HS to 11th!!
In the BU meet, Spain's Esther Guerro's 2:01.72 took the 800 from Cory McGee's 2:02.20 and Megan Krumpoch's 2:02.22.
Elinor Purrier took the Mile in 4:34.48!
Here's my usual list of OT marks---all from Seattle, of course!!
Barbara Nwaba scored 4376 Pentathlon points!
Justyn Knight took the Men's Mile in 3:59.64, with Andy Wheating and Brannon Kidder also sub-4!
Brie Felnagle ran a fast Mile in 4:27.27!
Too bad it's worthless for list purposes!!
Alexa Efraimson was 2nd in 4:30.49.
Kate Grace took the 800--sporting her new NIKE gear!!!--in 2:02.29!
The Women's 3000 was won by a nameless Canadian, but 2nd went to Christina Aragon, with Brenna Peloquin back in 14th!
(There were several sections!)
In 26th came 13 year old Grace Ping, her 9:33.85 a great time, OT or not!!
Colby Gilbert took the Men's 3K in 7:45 and change!!
Thomas Ratcliffe was 5th!
In today's Osaka Women's Marathon, American Serena Burla PR'ed in 4th with 2:26:53!
This 34 year old cancer survivor moves from 15th A-T US, tied with 1 other, to 9th!!
The race was won in the 2:24's!
I'll close this omnibus opus (!!) with a couple of news items!
Kate Murphy is going to race with the Pro's in the Millrose Mile!!
A HSR in the offing??
And Sally Kipyego, who has lived in the United States for 12 years (since her college days!!) is now a United States citizen!!
No word on whether she'll compete for the US--or when!!
Thanks for staying with me!
Hope you enjoyed the ride!
See you soon!
Thomas Ratcliffe was 5th!
In today's Osaka Women's Marathon, American Serena Burla PR'ed in 4th with 2:26:53!
This 34 year old cancer survivor moves from 15th A-T US, tied with 1 other, to 9th!!
The race was won in the 2:24's!
I'll close this omnibus opus (!!) with a couple of news items!
Kate Murphy is going to race with the Pro's in the Millrose Mile!!
A HSR in the offing??
And Sally Kipyego, who has lived in the United States for 12 years (since her college days!!) is now a United States citizen!!
No word on whether she'll compete for the US--or when!!
Thanks for staying with me!
Hope you enjoyed the ride!
See you soon!
Sunday, January 22, 2017
A WR? From WHO?
Yes, a totally unexpected World Record from an even MORE unexpected source topped this weekend's T&F action!
But that was just the beginning!
It's exciting to realize that this INdoor season has yet to see a REALLY important meet---which will (hopefully) be next week's Boston IAAF World Tour opener!
Let's take a look at what HAS happened in these "lesser" meets!
Hold on to your (whatevers)!!
Emmanuel Korir began his Frosh year at UTEP with an Oversize Track 800 of 1:46.50, which WOULD have been the 2017 Collegiate leader IF run on a legal 200 meter track!
So maybe his 1:14.97 in a 600 at a meet in Albuquerque wasn't TOTALLY shocking!
But when you attach the "WR" initials to it, then it gains TONS of weight!!
Yes, Nico Motchebon's 1:15.12 WR, run in 1999, is no more!
This is also the Collegiate Record!
And the Collegiate Frosh Class record!
I have no idea his actual age, so I can't give him his due Age record!
(I will, if & when I discover his birthdate!)
It's also the National Record of Kenya, as he hails from Iten!
Also running fast in this race (Korir didn't take the lead until after 400 meters!!) were--
Jonah Koech, his 1:17.24 in 2nd making him 15th A-T Collegiate!
Tre Hinds, his 1:17.29 in 3rd making him 16th A-T Collegiate!
ANOTHER World Record popped up from an unexpected source this week!
I've written before about wanting an OFFICIAL 50,000 meter Walk for Women!
Well, the IAAF has now officially accepted a WR for this event!
Ines Henriques of Portugal Walked the distance in 4:08:26 to knock about 2 minutes off the old WR---even if THAT record wasn't considered official!
Her 25K splits were 2:02:07 and 2:06:19!!
This of course is the National Record of Portugal, as well as an (unknown to me!) Age record!!
BTW, the Men's race was won with a time just 4 seconds faster than Ms Henriques!!
The Women's 600 gave up two BIG marks!
Sammy Watson's 1:28.67 took down the HSR in a race where she was unchallenged!
This is also the Senior Class record, as well as the Age 17 record (based on my records!).
She moves from 3rd to 1st on the A-T HS list!
She also becomes 23rd on the A-T US list!!
Ajee Wilson also ran a "solo" race, as her 1:25.23 dominated the field!
She is now the Age 22 record holder!
She moves from 19th A-T World to 5th, tied with 1 other!
She remains 2nd A-T US!
Kendra Harrison improved her 60H PR by just 0.02 seconds, but her 7.75 ties the Age 24 record!
It moves her from 3rd to 2nd on the A-T US list!
And she moves from 12th A-T World, tied with 1 other, to 8th, tied with 2 others!
She'd run her heat in 7.85!
In other 60H news---
Trey Cunningham's 7.59 is the HS leader, and moves him from 8th A-T HS to 3rd, tied with 1 other!
Olivia Friedrich also becomes the HS leader, her 8.20 ranking her 8th A-T HS!!
And finishing 3rd in the Kendra Harrison race was Pedrya Seymour's 7.98, which makes her 19th A-T Collegiate, tied with 4 others!!
Knocked OFF my Top 24 list were two iconic names!!
Lolo Jones's 8.00 dates from 2004!
She went on to run the American Record of 7.72!
Susanna Kallur's 8.00 dates from 2002!
She went on to break the World Record with her 7.68!!
(Akela Jones's 8.00 from 2016 was also erased!!)
The Weight Throw got revved up quite a bit---as per usual!!
A bit dated mark---about a week or two?---is Makenti Forrest's 59-11.75, which places her 16th A-T HS!
Annette Eckdunwoke (Somewhat similar tongue-twister to that of Chuk Enechwechi?? LOL) threw it out to 73-11, making her 14th A-T Collegiate, tied with 1 other.
She's also 17th A-T US!
AND she ranks 20th A-T World, tied with 1 other!
Johnnie Jackson's throw measured 77-3.75.
This makes him also 14th A-T Collegiate, except for the Men!
He's also 17th A-T US, matching Ms Eckdunwoke's mark, but for the other gender!
And he ranks 24th A-T World!
DeAnna Price, the Rio Olympian, finally took her talents INdoors in a serious way, her 75-10.25 making her 10th A-T US, and 12th A-T World!!
Jeneva Stevens, another Pro, got a good throw, but her 77-7.25 was NOT a PR!
(She also threw the SP out 60-10!)
Jacob Wickey followed his HS list-leading 76-10 with a good 76-5!
Second to Wickey was Brent Fairbanks, whose 75-6 misses my HS DDD by 9.50 inches!
Raven Saunders had another great SP series, getting 3 over 60 feet, her longest being 61-4.75!
But she fouled 3 times in the WT, not getting her final 3 throws!
Erin Farmer threw the SP out to 58-4.75.
This makes her 22nd A-T Collegiate, tied with 1 other!
The PV continued producing, but nothing in the "eyes wide open" realm!
Tori Weeks (Lexi did NOT compete!!) fraction-inched her way up the charts, her 14-6.25 improving last week's (sic!) PR by a quarter-inch!!
She remains 22nd A-T Collegiate, but has removed the 2 she was tied with, so she's now 22nd with NO ties!
She took 3 tries--said by sources to be "good" tries!--at 15-0!!
Alysha Newman improved to 15-3, which gave her the National Record of Canada!!
Victor Weinrich got over a bar set at 18-8.25, which fell 4 inches short of making the US Top 24 Performers list!!
Allison Koressel and Kortney Ross both topped 14-7.25!
But Oiselle's newest signee--Megan Clark--No-Heighted in this competiton!
Annie Rhodes jumped 14-5.25, missing the Collegiate DDD by 0.75 inches!
She missed 3 times at 14-9!
Deakin Volz climbed over 18-1 for one of the better 2017 Collegiate marks!
Finally--in the PV world!--Becky Arbiv's 13-5.75 gives her 17th on the A-T HS list!!
In other jumps--
Keturah Orji opened her 2017 INdoor TJ season--she'd previously LJ'ed!--in good fashion, her 45-9.25 winning easily!
She had two other 45 foot jumps!
The INdoor Collegiate and American records await her next competitions!!
Madeline Fagan HJ'ed 6-2.75, but missed the Collegiate DDD by a quarter-inch!
She took 3 tries at 6-4.25!!
Grant Holloway became the 2017 Collegiate leader in the LJ, his 26-5 missing my Collegiate list by 3.50 inches!
He also missed the Collegiate Frosh Class record by 2.75 inches!!
(He also ran a 60H in 7.77.)
Kendell Williams LJ'ed 21-4.75.
She also did the 60H--time of 8.07!
And----from Russia!!--comes two more World leading marks in the HJ!!
Mariya Kuchina reached 2.00--or 6-6.75--but it missed her 2014 PR by 0.25 inches!
She just turned 24 years old!
Ivan Ukhov upped his season's (and World-leading) best to 7-8.50!!
I'll lead off the Mile-1500 news with an announcement!
Genzebe Dibaba---Who else??---said she'll be chasing her own INdoor 1500 WR on February 10th in the Torun IAAF World Tour meet!!
Ready to bet??
LOL
In other middle-distance news--
Drew Hunter WON his first Pro INdoor race, his 3:58.92 outkicking Julian Oakley's 3:59.04!
But in 3rd came a High School kid!!
DJ (David) Principe improved on his December time of 4:04.47 by just a bit!
Closing fast, he missed breaking 4 minutes, but his 4:00.97 still moved him from 6th to 3rd on the A-T HS INdoor list--behind Mr Hunter and a certain Mr Webb!!
And he was officially timed at 1500 meters, so his 3:44.52 makes him 3rd A-T HS, with the same pair ahead of him!
His final 109 meters was a solid 16.45 seconds!!
Andy Bayer ran the Mile in 3:59.24.
In the 500, Bershawn Jackson sped 1:01.41.
The list of Oversize Track marks will follow!
But first, I should report that Kayla Montgomery continues her comeback from her MS relapse!
Her time (11:10.29 over 3000 meters) or place (13th of 15 finishers) weren't "good" in the "normal" sense!
But she moved up in distance run, and there were Lipscomb runners slower than her!
She IS coming back!
Alll the way??
Maybe!
But that this inspirational girl is running AT ALL is almost a miracle!!
ADDENDUM to a previous post!
I noted that Christian Coleman had sped a 60 in 6.56!
I failed to note that he ran the final FASTER---his 6.54 leading the World!!
Jairaine (sp??) Oliver ran the 60 in 7.18 to take over the Collegiate lead for 2017.
She'd run her heat in 7.19!
But her 7.18 misses my Collegiate DDD by 0.01 seconds!!
Teahna Daniels took 2nd in 7.21.
Fred Kerley improved his season's best in the 200 to 20.74.
But Jereem Richards ran faster, his 20.57 now topping the season list!
Eli Hall-Thompson ran 20.71.
And now for those infamous OT marks!
Put on your mourning hats!
Molly Seidel opened her INdoor season in the Mile--on Notre Dame's 320 meter oval!
And despite the track size, she couldn't run faster than 4:44.75!
She did beat Anna Rohrer, however, Rohrer's 4:53.23 putting her 7th in the race!!
Erin Finn ran 3000 meters--also at ND--in 9:07.24!
Shakima Wimbley and Kendell Ellis ran OT 400's in 51.28 and 51.52, respectively!
Isaiah Harris sped the 800 in 1:46.65!
But the saddest tale of all was that of Aliyah Miller!!
This young lady tweeted that she'd just run what she BELIEVED was the fastest 800 run by a College Freshman---EVER!!
I felt the need to tell her the FACTS!!
(I did congratulate her, however!! LOL)
Her great time of 2:03.43 is indeed faster than the listed Collegiate INdoor Frosh Class record---that being 2:04.27!!
But it was run on an Oversize Track, thus making it NOT eligible for list or RECORD purposes!!
This girl DOES remain one to watch!!
Speaking of my chief pet peeve, the SEC meet is being held on Vanderbilt's OT this year!!
WHY??
This always-fantastic meet thus will LOSE ALL the marks run over 60 meters!!
Stupid, stupid, STUPID!!!
Finally, the Dubai Marathon!
Ken Bekele--and his coach--had told everyone before the race that he would chase---and get---the World Record of 2:02:57!
And but for a fall, this record might have fallen---sic!!
Right at the start, Bekele got tripped, and fell!
This---he said!---was the cause of him DNF'ing at about the halfway point, or just past!
The Half was reached at WR pace, but with Bekele gone, it faded!
Still Tamirat Tola did break Dubai's Course Record, his 2:04:11 moving him from 24th to 11th on the A-T World list!
Second runner ended over 2:30 later!!
The Women's race went to Worknesh Degefa's 2:22:34!
Shure Demise's 2:22:57 was closer than Tola's nearest challenger, but the two women have VERY different running forms!
Degefa appeears very smooth and fast, her demeanor appearing tireless.
But Demise appeared sluggish and slow, even plodding!
Yet she never really lost any steps in the final few miles!!
So this proves the adage that appearances can be deceiving!!
As noted earlier, next week brings us BOSTON!!!
ALL the events are loaded with stars!
But the best event--as far as I can tell--might be the Women's Distance Medley Relay!
I know who 3 of the 4 runners are, and they are BEASTS!!
Don't know who will run which leg, but here's my guess---
Emma Coburn (!!) will lead off in the 1200.
Followed by "Lady X" in the 400.
Then Brenda Martinez will run her specialty, the 800 leg!
To be anchored by Jenny Simpson!!
Here's my TIME prediction---given those 3 women, plus perfect health, shape, and pacing!!
Coburn will run 3:15
The unknown 400 gal will speed a 54 (total time of 4:09).
Then Martinez will ace her 800 in 2:01 (total time of 6:10)
Simpson will race her 1600 anchor in 4:20, for a "WR" time of 10:30!!
Note that the current INdoor WR is 10:42.57!
See you soon!
But that was just the beginning!
It's exciting to realize that this INdoor season has yet to see a REALLY important meet---which will (hopefully) be next week's Boston IAAF World Tour opener!
Let's take a look at what HAS happened in these "lesser" meets!
Hold on to your (whatevers)!!
Emmanuel Korir began his Frosh year at UTEP with an Oversize Track 800 of 1:46.50, which WOULD have been the 2017 Collegiate leader IF run on a legal 200 meter track!
So maybe his 1:14.97 in a 600 at a meet in Albuquerque wasn't TOTALLY shocking!
But when you attach the "WR" initials to it, then it gains TONS of weight!!
Yes, Nico Motchebon's 1:15.12 WR, run in 1999, is no more!
This is also the Collegiate Record!
And the Collegiate Frosh Class record!
I have no idea his actual age, so I can't give him his due Age record!
(I will, if & when I discover his birthdate!)
It's also the National Record of Kenya, as he hails from Iten!
Also running fast in this race (Korir didn't take the lead until after 400 meters!!) were--
Jonah Koech, his 1:17.24 in 2nd making him 15th A-T Collegiate!
Tre Hinds, his 1:17.29 in 3rd making him 16th A-T Collegiate!
ANOTHER World Record popped up from an unexpected source this week!
I've written before about wanting an OFFICIAL 50,000 meter Walk for Women!
Well, the IAAF has now officially accepted a WR for this event!
Ines Henriques of Portugal Walked the distance in 4:08:26 to knock about 2 minutes off the old WR---even if THAT record wasn't considered official!
Her 25K splits were 2:02:07 and 2:06:19!!
This of course is the National Record of Portugal, as well as an (unknown to me!) Age record!!
BTW, the Men's race was won with a time just 4 seconds faster than Ms Henriques!!
The Women's 600 gave up two BIG marks!
Sammy Watson's 1:28.67 took down the HSR in a race where she was unchallenged!
This is also the Senior Class record, as well as the Age 17 record (based on my records!).
She moves from 3rd to 1st on the A-T HS list!
She also becomes 23rd on the A-T US list!!
Ajee Wilson also ran a "solo" race, as her 1:25.23 dominated the field!
She is now the Age 22 record holder!
She moves from 19th A-T World to 5th, tied with 1 other!
She remains 2nd A-T US!
Kendra Harrison improved her 60H PR by just 0.02 seconds, but her 7.75 ties the Age 24 record!
It moves her from 3rd to 2nd on the A-T US list!
And she moves from 12th A-T World, tied with 1 other, to 8th, tied with 2 others!
She'd run her heat in 7.85!
In other 60H news---
Trey Cunningham's 7.59 is the HS leader, and moves him from 8th A-T HS to 3rd, tied with 1 other!
Olivia Friedrich also becomes the HS leader, her 8.20 ranking her 8th A-T HS!!
And finishing 3rd in the Kendra Harrison race was Pedrya Seymour's 7.98, which makes her 19th A-T Collegiate, tied with 4 others!!
Knocked OFF my Top 24 list were two iconic names!!
Lolo Jones's 8.00 dates from 2004!
She went on to run the American Record of 7.72!
Susanna Kallur's 8.00 dates from 2002!
She went on to break the World Record with her 7.68!!
(Akela Jones's 8.00 from 2016 was also erased!!)
The Weight Throw got revved up quite a bit---as per usual!!
A bit dated mark---about a week or two?---is Makenti Forrest's 59-11.75, which places her 16th A-T HS!
Annette Eckdunwoke (Somewhat similar tongue-twister to that of Chuk Enechwechi?? LOL) threw it out to 73-11, making her 14th A-T Collegiate, tied with 1 other.
She's also 17th A-T US!
AND she ranks 20th A-T World, tied with 1 other!
Johnnie Jackson's throw measured 77-3.75.
This makes him also 14th A-T Collegiate, except for the Men!
He's also 17th A-T US, matching Ms Eckdunwoke's mark, but for the other gender!
And he ranks 24th A-T World!
DeAnna Price, the Rio Olympian, finally took her talents INdoors in a serious way, her 75-10.25 making her 10th A-T US, and 12th A-T World!!
Jeneva Stevens, another Pro, got a good throw, but her 77-7.25 was NOT a PR!
(She also threw the SP out 60-10!)
Jacob Wickey followed his HS list-leading 76-10 with a good 76-5!
Second to Wickey was Brent Fairbanks, whose 75-6 misses my HS DDD by 9.50 inches!
Raven Saunders had another great SP series, getting 3 over 60 feet, her longest being 61-4.75!
But she fouled 3 times in the WT, not getting her final 3 throws!
Erin Farmer threw the SP out to 58-4.75.
This makes her 22nd A-T Collegiate, tied with 1 other!
The PV continued producing, but nothing in the "eyes wide open" realm!
Tori Weeks (Lexi did NOT compete!!) fraction-inched her way up the charts, her 14-6.25 improving last week's (sic!) PR by a quarter-inch!!
She remains 22nd A-T Collegiate, but has removed the 2 she was tied with, so she's now 22nd with NO ties!
She took 3 tries--said by sources to be "good" tries!--at 15-0!!
Alysha Newman improved to 15-3, which gave her the National Record of Canada!!
Victor Weinrich got over a bar set at 18-8.25, which fell 4 inches short of making the US Top 24 Performers list!!
Allison Koressel and Kortney Ross both topped 14-7.25!
But Oiselle's newest signee--Megan Clark--No-Heighted in this competiton!
Annie Rhodes jumped 14-5.25, missing the Collegiate DDD by 0.75 inches!
She missed 3 times at 14-9!
Deakin Volz climbed over 18-1 for one of the better 2017 Collegiate marks!
Finally--in the PV world!--Becky Arbiv's 13-5.75 gives her 17th on the A-T HS list!!
In other jumps--
Keturah Orji opened her 2017 INdoor TJ season--she'd previously LJ'ed!--in good fashion, her 45-9.25 winning easily!
She had two other 45 foot jumps!
The INdoor Collegiate and American records await her next competitions!!
Madeline Fagan HJ'ed 6-2.75, but missed the Collegiate DDD by a quarter-inch!
She took 3 tries at 6-4.25!!
Grant Holloway became the 2017 Collegiate leader in the LJ, his 26-5 missing my Collegiate list by 3.50 inches!
He also missed the Collegiate Frosh Class record by 2.75 inches!!
(He also ran a 60H in 7.77.)
Kendell Williams LJ'ed 21-4.75.
She also did the 60H--time of 8.07!
And----from Russia!!--comes two more World leading marks in the HJ!!
Mariya Kuchina reached 2.00--or 6-6.75--but it missed her 2014 PR by 0.25 inches!
She just turned 24 years old!
Ivan Ukhov upped his season's (and World-leading) best to 7-8.50!!
I'll lead off the Mile-1500 news with an announcement!
Genzebe Dibaba---Who else??---said she'll be chasing her own INdoor 1500 WR on February 10th in the Torun IAAF World Tour meet!!
Ready to bet??
LOL
In other middle-distance news--
Drew Hunter WON his first Pro INdoor race, his 3:58.92 outkicking Julian Oakley's 3:59.04!
But in 3rd came a High School kid!!
DJ (David) Principe improved on his December time of 4:04.47 by just a bit!
Closing fast, he missed breaking 4 minutes, but his 4:00.97 still moved him from 6th to 3rd on the A-T HS INdoor list--behind Mr Hunter and a certain Mr Webb!!
And he was officially timed at 1500 meters, so his 3:44.52 makes him 3rd A-T HS, with the same pair ahead of him!
His final 109 meters was a solid 16.45 seconds!!
Andy Bayer ran the Mile in 3:59.24.
In the 500, Bershawn Jackson sped 1:01.41.
The list of Oversize Track marks will follow!
But first, I should report that Kayla Montgomery continues her comeback from her MS relapse!
Her time (11:10.29 over 3000 meters) or place (13th of 15 finishers) weren't "good" in the "normal" sense!
But she moved up in distance run, and there were Lipscomb runners slower than her!
She IS coming back!
Alll the way??
Maybe!
But that this inspirational girl is running AT ALL is almost a miracle!!
ADDENDUM to a previous post!
I noted that Christian Coleman had sped a 60 in 6.56!
I failed to note that he ran the final FASTER---his 6.54 leading the World!!
Jairaine (sp??) Oliver ran the 60 in 7.18 to take over the Collegiate lead for 2017.
She'd run her heat in 7.19!
But her 7.18 misses my Collegiate DDD by 0.01 seconds!!
Teahna Daniels took 2nd in 7.21.
Fred Kerley improved his season's best in the 200 to 20.74.
But Jereem Richards ran faster, his 20.57 now topping the season list!
Eli Hall-Thompson ran 20.71.
And now for those infamous OT marks!
Put on your mourning hats!
Molly Seidel opened her INdoor season in the Mile--on Notre Dame's 320 meter oval!
And despite the track size, she couldn't run faster than 4:44.75!
She did beat Anna Rohrer, however, Rohrer's 4:53.23 putting her 7th in the race!!
Erin Finn ran 3000 meters--also at ND--in 9:07.24!
Shakima Wimbley and Kendell Ellis ran OT 400's in 51.28 and 51.52, respectively!
Isaiah Harris sped the 800 in 1:46.65!
But the saddest tale of all was that of Aliyah Miller!!
This young lady tweeted that she'd just run what she BELIEVED was the fastest 800 run by a College Freshman---EVER!!
I felt the need to tell her the FACTS!!
(I did congratulate her, however!! LOL)
Her great time of 2:03.43 is indeed faster than the listed Collegiate INdoor Frosh Class record---that being 2:04.27!!
But it was run on an Oversize Track, thus making it NOT eligible for list or RECORD purposes!!
This girl DOES remain one to watch!!
Speaking of my chief pet peeve, the SEC meet is being held on Vanderbilt's OT this year!!
WHY??
This always-fantastic meet thus will LOSE ALL the marks run over 60 meters!!
Stupid, stupid, STUPID!!!
Finally, the Dubai Marathon!
Ken Bekele--and his coach--had told everyone before the race that he would chase---and get---the World Record of 2:02:57!
And but for a fall, this record might have fallen---sic!!
Right at the start, Bekele got tripped, and fell!
This---he said!---was the cause of him DNF'ing at about the halfway point, or just past!
The Half was reached at WR pace, but with Bekele gone, it faded!
Still Tamirat Tola did break Dubai's Course Record, his 2:04:11 moving him from 24th to 11th on the A-T World list!
Second runner ended over 2:30 later!!
The Women's race went to Worknesh Degefa's 2:22:34!
Shure Demise's 2:22:57 was closer than Tola's nearest challenger, but the two women have VERY different running forms!
Degefa appeears very smooth and fast, her demeanor appearing tireless.
But Demise appeared sluggish and slow, even plodding!
Yet she never really lost any steps in the final few miles!!
So this proves the adage that appearances can be deceiving!!
As noted earlier, next week brings us BOSTON!!!
ALL the events are loaded with stars!
But the best event--as far as I can tell--might be the Women's Distance Medley Relay!
I know who 3 of the 4 runners are, and they are BEASTS!!
Don't know who will run which leg, but here's my guess---
Emma Coburn (!!) will lead off in the 1200.
Followed by "Lady X" in the 400.
Then Brenda Martinez will run her specialty, the 800 leg!
To be anchored by Jenny Simpson!!
Here's my TIME prediction---given those 3 women, plus perfect health, shape, and pacing!!
Coburn will run 3:15
The unknown 400 gal will speed a 54 (total time of 4:09).
Then Martinez will ace her 800 in 2:01 (total time of 6:10)
Simpson will race her 1600 anchor in 4:20, for a "WR" time of 10:30!!
Note that the current INdoor WR is 10:42.57!
See you soon!
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