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****69 Boys Break 9:00 at Arcadia as Daniel Simmons Wins in 8:34.96
The boys’ 3200 meters on the Arcadia Invitational has grow to be for highschool runners what the Boston College 5,000m races have grow to be for school and professional athletes: an opportunity for the most effective distance runners within the nation to return collectively and chase quick occasions in good circumstances.
This 12 months’s race pitted NXN champion JoJo Jourdon in opposition to highschool indoor 5,000m file holder Daniel Simmons (13:38 pb) in opposition to highschool indoor 2-mile file holder Drew Griffith (8:34 pb). Ultimately, it got here right down to a closing straight duel between Simmons, who was outkicked by .04 by Simeon Birnbaum final 12 months, and Nike Indoor Nationals 2-mile champ Nathan Neil.
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This time, Simmons held on for the win in 8:34.96 to Neil’s 8:35.32. Neil really had the quickest final lap (57.16) however was solely fourth on the bell, whereas Simmons (57.52 final lap) was main. Simmons will run at BYU subsequent 12 months whereas Neil is headed to Washington.
Past Simmons and Neil, the depth was insane within the 3200m at Arcadia. 20 boys broke 9:00 – within the B warmth. Within the invitational part, 37 of the 38 runners broke 9:00, with 27 beneath 8:50 and seven beneath 8:40. In whole, 69 boys broke 3200 at Arcadia on Saturday, which smashed the earlier file of 44 set final 12 months.
Simmons’ American Fork (Utah) Excessive Faculty crew accounted for 4 of these sub-9:00s on their very own, together with three sub-8:50s. Right here’s AF’s fab 4:
8:34.96 Daniel Simmons, senior8:38.34 Ben Jaster, senior8:46.10 Kaden Evans, junior8:58.26 Ben Bradshaw, senior
The previous few years have seen a speedy shift in what it takes to win at Arcadia. Think about that in 2019, simply 5 years in the past, Nico Younger set a meet file of 8:40.00 when he gained Arcadia. Heck, as lately as 2018, the successful time was 8:50. This 12 months, Younger’s time would have positioned him eighth.
Arcadia’s depth has improved for a similar two causes because the BU 5,000. The primary is that Arcadia has grow to be a virtuous cycle: yearly, extra boys break 9:00, which in flip attracts much more boys hoping to interrupt 9:00 the next 12 months. The second motive is, after all, tremendous footwear and tremendous spikes, with the desk beneath the most recent proof of how know-how has modified the sport in any respect ranges of operating (the spikes turned extensively obtainable to excessive schoolers popping out of the pandemic in 2021).
Arcadia Invitational boys’ 3200m outcomes, 2018-24
Yr
Sub-8:40
Sub-8:50
Sub-9:00
2024
7
28
69
2023
3
17
44
2022
2
8
32
2021
0
2
15
2019
0
14
4
2018
0
0
16
On the women’ facet, the standout performer at Arcadia was junior Sadie Engelhardt, who gained the mile for the third straight 12 months in 4:34.31. That’s a slight enchancment on the 4:34.45 Engelhardt ran on the New Steadiness Indoor Grand Prix in February.
Engelhardt’s time was the second-fastest outside mile ever by a US highschool woman, behind solely Katelyn Tuohy’s 4:33.87 from 2018. Total it’s #4 (Mary Cain and Alexa Efraimson have run sooner indoors), although others, together with Engelhardt herself, have run sooner after changing their 1500 occasions. Engelardt ran 4:09.70 for 1500 in opposition to the professionals at The TEN on March 16, which converts to a 4:29.73 mile based on LetsRun’s 1.0802 conversion.
Extra: MB: Official Arcadia 2024 Reside Dialogue Thread
****Claudia Hollingsworth Continues To Roll
The quickest teenage metric miler was operating down in Australia as 18-year-old Claudia Hollingsworth’s wonderful 2024 season continued. She lowered her U20 1500 NR from 4:04.45 to 4:02.96 to win the Field Hill Basic in Melbourne by greater than 10 seconds (2nd place 4:13.13), that means the Australian U20 file is now sooner than the American U20 file (Alexa Efraimson’s 4:03.39). Hollingsworth has additionally run 1:58.81 for 800 this 12 months.
Presently, Hollingsworth’s SBs rank her #1 in all of Australia within the 800 this 12 months and #2 within the 1500 (behind Jessica Hull’s 4:01.19). The Australian championships start on Thursday in Adelaide, and Hollingsworth, who’s coached by Craig Mottram, is entered in each occasions.
Just one non-East African/non-Chinese language girl in world historical past has damaged 4:00 as an official U20 athlete and that’s Zola Budd (nee Pieterse), who ran 3:59.96 in 1985 at age 19. Budd additionally ran 4:17.57 for the total mile as an U20 athlete (equal to a 3:58.45 1500). America’s Addy Wiley ran 3:59.17 final September at age 19 however she turned 20 in October and thus wasn’t formally a U20 athlete.
If Hollingsworth needs to interrupt 4:00 as an official U20 athlete, she’ll need to do it throughout this calendar 12 months as she turns 19 on Friday.
In case you might be questioning, the official U20 world file belongs to China’s Yinglai Lang at 3:51.34 in 1997 however just about nobody believes that was accomplished clear. Ethiopia’s Birke Haylom ran 3:54.93 final summer time, a time solely surpassed by 4 completely different Chinese language teenagers from the identical race on the Chinese language Nationwide Video games in Shanghai on October 18, 1997.
*TFN’s U20 file checklist
*****Stat of the Week
Hillary Bor celebrates his USATF 10 Mile title and new American file of 45:56 on the Credit score Union Cherry Blossom 10-Miler in Washington, D.C.
45:56 – new American file set by Hillary Bor on the Credit score Union Cherry Blossom 10-miler on Sunday in Washington, D.C.
60:13 – half marathon tempo run by Bor on Sunday.
So congrats to Bor (and Nathan Martin, who bounced again from a seventh place exhibiting on the US Olympic Marathon Trials with a 46:00) for breaking the outdated file of 46:11. However we offer that stat to point out you the American file is a comparatively mushy one contemplating the American file within the half is 59:43.
Ryan Corridor’s 10-mie cut up throughout his half marathon AR was 45:33, whereas Galen Rupp cut up 45:54 for 10 miles throughout a 60:23 half in 2020. However neither Corridor nor Rupp’s cut up occasions have been formally ratified as an American file.
Bor completed third within the race as there was a three-way dash for the win, gained by 2021 NCAA indoor 5000 champ Wesley Kiptoo of Kenya/HOKA NAZ Elite in 45:54 as 60:00 half marathoner Raymond Magut of Kenya was second in 45:55.
Within the girls’s race, Sarah Chelangat, who ran a Ugandan file of 14:40.88 final 12 months on the observe (and 30:40 on the roads), bought the win in 51:14 (67:10 half marathon tempo) eight days after ending as the primary non-Kenyan at World XC (sixth place).
American Emily Durgin confirmed she was recovered from the US Olympic Marathon Trials the place she was ninth as she was second total in 51:26 (67:26 half marathon tempo).
Extra: RRW: Hillary Bor (45:56) Smashes His American Report at Cherry Blossom 10-Miler, Finishes Third As HOKA NAZ Elite’s Wesley Kiptoo Wins
****Seven Seconds Show To Be Pricey At World’s Richest Marathon
The most important first-place prizes on the planet of marathoning in 2024 have been provided final week on the Daegu Marathon, the place $160,000 US was provided to every of the winners. The one caveat is the ladies needed to run 2:20:00 or sooner to get all of that cash and the lads needed to run 2:05:00 or sooner. The Nagoya Marathon does provide a bigger first-place prize of $250,000, however Nagoya is a girls’s-only race so the overall first-place prize is bigger in Daegu.
Neither of these issues occurred so the prize cash ended up being $100,000 every for the lads’s and girls’s winners. Ethiopia’s Ruti Aga gained the ladies’s race in a course-record 2:21:07. Had Aga, who ran 2:18:07 for 2nd in Dubai in January, run seven seconds sooner, she would have gained $130,000, which was the payout for a win between 2:20:01 and a couple of:21:00. She went out in 66:28 for the primary 20k (2:20:14 tempo).
58:42 half marathoner Stephen Kiprop gained $100,000 as effectively within the males’s race by operating a pb of two:07:20. He went out in 59:50 for the primary 20k (2:06:14 tempo).
Race Outcomes Weekly reported that the circumstances have been a little bit heat and sunny however not loopy: 11C/52F, 72% humidity, 0.9 m/sec wind firstly, 18C/64F, 39% humidity, 3.0 m/sec wind on the end.
However kudos to the race for selling the truth that it’s providing the richest prize purse within the sport of marathoning for the 12 months 2024.
Extra: *Daegu Marathon Prize Purse Particulars
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The quickest marathon final weekend got here in Paris the place Ethiopia’s Mestawut Fikir debuted with a win in 2:20:45 whereas compatriot Mulugeta Uma gained the lads’s race with a 2:05:33.
2016 Olympic 5000 champion Vivian Cheruiyot, the 2018 London Marathon champ, returned to the marathon for the primary time since dropping out of London in 2020. Cheruiyot, 40, who gave start to her second little one in 2021, was third in Paris in 2:21:46.
****Daniel Ebenyo Seems To Be In Good Form
Daniel Ebenyo, the world 10,000 silver medallist final 12 months, didn’t run World XC this 12 months. As an alternative, he went for the world file on the Berlin Half Marathon final week however needed to accept a win in 59:30. Ebenyo went out in a scorching 13:28 for the primary 5000 (the 57:31 WR is 27:15 tempo for 10k) however slowed in heat circumstances. Regardless, he’s undefeated on the 12 months having gained two XC races previous to this.
The quickest half marathon over the weekend got here in Prague the place Sabastian Sawe, the 2023 world half champ, ran a 58:24 course file, every week after ending seventh at World XC. Sawe, who trains in Kapsabet with Boston Marathon champ Evans Chebet and Tokyo Marathon champ Benson Kipruto, had barely raced exterior of Kenya earlier than 2022 however has loved a meteoric rise to the highest of the game. For the reason that begin of 2022, he’s gained six of his eight profession half marathons and run beneath 59:00 4 occasions.
Sabastian Sawe’s half marathons
Date
Occasion
End result
January 30, 2022
Seville
1st, 59:02
March 6, 2022
Rome-Ostia
1st, 58:02
October 23, 2022
Valencia
sixth, 59:23
December 23, 2022
Bahrain Night time
1st, 58:58
April 2, 2023
Berlin
1st, 59:00
October 1, 2023
World Half
1st, 59:10
October 22, 2023
Valencia
fifth, 58:29
April 6, 2024
Prague
1st, 58:24
Ethiopian’s Gete Alemayehu (68:10 in Prague) and Tekle Muluat (66:53 in Berlin) have been your girls’s winners within the two races.
****Ajee’ Wilson Opens Up 2024 Marketing campaign
The Miramar Invitational was held on Saturday in Florida and it’s finest identified for tremendous quick windy dash occasions. Initially, world champions Sha’Carri Richardson and Shericka Jackson have been each meant to open their seasons at Miramar however each wound up withdrawing. As an alternative, the meet served because the 2024 opener for Ajee’ Wilson who didn’t run indoors this 12 months for the primary time ever as a professional.
Wilson, who turns 30 in Could, has traditionally has thrived indoors, however Wilson’s coach Derek Thompson stated they skipped the indoor season in 2024 to give attention to outside, the place Wilson will try to make her third Olympic crew.
Wilson’s 2024 opener didn’t go nice as she was simply third within the 600 in 1:27.86. Wilson’s time equates to only a 2:03.89 800 based on John Kellogg (multiply by 1.41).
The race was gained in 1:23.80 by former Arkansas runner Shafiqua Maloney, who ran 1:58 for 800 indoors. Maloney’s time was a nationwide file for St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Wilson was greater than 4 seconds behind Maloney and likewise misplaced by .05 to the Atlanta Observe Membership’s Sadi Henderson, who solely ran 2:04 indoors.
Talking of Wilsons opening up their 2024 seasons, new professional Britton Wilson started her open marketing campaign in Miramar on Saturday as effectively, operating 51.07 to win the 400 on a windy day (she had run the 4×400 at Texas Relays every week earlier). Wilson ran some unimaginable occasions throughout her 2023 marketing campaign on the College of Arkansas, which included a 49.48 American indoor file at NCAAs and collegiate information of 49.40 and 49.13 within the semis and closing at SECs. However she ran a lot of the season whereas managing shin accidents and was clearly damage at Worlds, the place she exited within the first spherical after operating 53.87.
Wilson can be a proficient hurdler, successful the NCAA title and ending fifth at Worlds in 2022, so it was fascinating to listen to Ato Boldon reveal on the Miramar broadcast that she will probably be specializing in the flat 400 in 2024.
The items are actually falling into place for the Paris Olympics. Wilson, who tried an formidable 400/400 hurdles double at 2023 NCAAs, will goal the 400 on the Olympics whereas Femke Bol is doing the 400 hurdles solely. The most important domino nonetheless to fall, after all, is Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone. Boldon stated he has heard McLaughlin-Levrone is leaning in the direction of doing the 400 solely however careworn that these have been unconfirmed rumors.
It’s value noting that the 400 hurdles comes after the 400 on the US Olympic Trials, so if catastrophe strikes for both Wilson or SML, they may nonetheless attempt to make the crew within the hurdles.
Extra: Miramar Invy: Kenny Bednarek Beats Christian Coleman Over 200m, 20.35 To twenty.43 Sada Williams gained the ladies’s race in 22.82. Shericka Jackson was purported to race, however delayed beginning her 2024 season for the third time, pulling out on the final minute.
***Russ Cook dinner Runs From The Most Southern Level To The Most Northern A part of Africa
It’s wonderful that Russ Cook dinner ran from the underside of Africa to the highest – South Africa to Tunisia, a journey of greater than 10,000 miles in just below a 12 months, throughout which era he was robbed and kidnapped in two completely different incidents. However in an article praising Cook dinner’s feat, the Telegraph known as the World Runners Affiliation “killjoys” for mentioning that Denmark’s Jesper Olsen ran from the highest of Africa (Egypt) to the underside (South Africa) 14 years in the past. The WRA aren’t killjoys. They’re simply doing what most journalists would admire – offering context for a uncommon achievement.
Sure Cook dinner is a badass, however he’s not the primary to run vertically throughout Africa. He’s the primary to do it alongside the western fringe of the continent, and he’s the primary to do it from the southernmost level to the northernmost. However to erase Olsen’s feat (or that of Nicholas Bourne, who ran from Cape City to Cairo in 1998 based on Guinness World Information) could be silly.
Olsen didn’t run almost so far as Cook dinner (2,000 miles much less) and ran slower (434 days), however he nonetheless ran throughout Africa vertically. Erasing him and Bourne from the historical past books could be like saying somebody who runs throughout the US however begins in Georgia and ends in California didn’t actually run throughout America as a result of they didn’t go the longest method attainable and begin in Maine.
Extra: British Man Russ Cook dinner Turns into First Particular person To Run The Total Size Of Africa
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