Tuesday, February 07, 2006
The Milrose games
Sunday, while most of us were watching the super bowl, a bunch of fast guys were in New York for the 99th running of the Wannamaker mile. The race is run on a short banked wooden track inside madison square garden ( okay in 1984 they threw out the old wooden surface and replaced it with something called mondo that is mounted on a steel frame, but it is still severly banked because of space issues even if it isn't as bouncy as it used to be). It's 11 laps to the mile. The race is always run at 10:00 pm and just happens to be the most famous indoor race in the world.
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Bernard Lagat won the featured event in 3:56:85. He was 5 seconds faster than the rest of the field. For those of you who know how it feels to go out too fast and die, the splits tell more than the final time. There was a paid rabbbit who took the field out in 55:8 ( that's suicide territory for those of you who have never run a mile) and held on for a 1:53.7 half before he stepped off of the track. At that point Lagat was all by himself because Bekele and the rest of the boys were in real trouble. Lagat finished with a 2:03 half but nobody had anything left to challenge with.
The other notable race was the High School boys mile. The folks at 'let's run' described it this way:
Boys HS Mile
Brian Rhodes-Devey led through a fast opening quarter of 62.6. John Coghlan, son of famed Irish indoor miler Eamonn Coghlan, soon fell off the pace and would not be a factor finishing 2nd to last in 4:28.76.
Deven led at 800m, followed by Dan McManamon. Greg Kelsey, one of 3 runners from boys high school national XC champion Saratoga High School in the field, took the lead on the third quarter and led in 3:14.6 followed by Alex Bean, as the field bunched together for a kick as the pace slowed. McManamon surged to the front at the bell and would power home for a convincing win, winning by nearly a second in 4:17.18, over Mark Amirault in 4:18.10.
If those times sound slow, remember that it was 11 laps to the mile.
Keep running!
Read more!
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Bernard Lagat won the featured event in 3:56:85. He was 5 seconds faster than the rest of the field. For those of you who know how it feels to go out too fast and die, the splits tell more than the final time. There was a paid rabbbit who took the field out in 55:8 ( that's suicide territory for those of you who have never run a mile) and held on for a 1:53.7 half before he stepped off of the track. At that point Lagat was all by himself because Bekele and the rest of the boys were in real trouble. Lagat finished with a 2:03 half but nobody had anything left to challenge with.
The other notable race was the High School boys mile. The folks at 'let's run' described it this way:
Boys HS Mile
Brian Rhodes-Devey led through a fast opening quarter of 62.6. John Coghlan, son of famed Irish indoor miler Eamonn Coghlan, soon fell off the pace and would not be a factor finishing 2nd to last in 4:28.76.
Deven led at 800m, followed by Dan McManamon. Greg Kelsey, one of 3 runners from boys high school national XC champion Saratoga High School in the field, took the lead on the third quarter and led in 3:14.6 followed by Alex Bean, as the field bunched together for a kick as the pace slowed. McManamon surged to the front at the bell and would power home for a convincing win, winning by nearly a second in 4:17.18, over Mark Amirault in 4:18.10.
If those times sound slow, remember that it was 11 laps to the mile.
Keep running!
Read more!
