Stumptown

[lonewolf]

e-mail from a spectator:

<<The biggest issue was the shockingly loud, abrasive music they played throughout every race, drowning out Tom Heinonen's attempts to announce. No one heard him say that the leader of the seeded M 1500 was at 2:48 at 1200!>>

A common complaint of mine. I have on occasion suspended competition until they turned off the damn speakers over the horizontal pits that made communication impossible.

[gh]

e-mail from a spectator:

<<The biggest issue was the shockingly loud, abrasive music they played throughout every race, drowning out Tom Heinonen's attempts to announce. No one heard him say that the leader of the seeded M 1500 was at 2:48 at 1200!>>

[Alan Sigmon]

Ah, I couldn't recall exactly and I looked at Peter Larsson's All-Time list, which has 3:31.51, for some reason. I see that Track Newsletter does report 3:31.25.

[gm]

It depends on how you define things! Yomif Kejelcha ran 3:31.51 en route to his 3:47.01 indoor world record for the mile at Boston on March 3, 2019.
So, it's the outdoor all-comers 1500m record, and it's the fastest actual 1500m race run in the US.

3:31.25 is what is listed for Kejelcha.

[Alan Sigmon]

It depends on how you define things! Yomif Kejelcha ran 3:31.51 en route to his 3:47.01 indoor world record for the mile at Boston on March 3, 2019.
So, it's the outdoor all-comers 1500m record, and it's the fastest actual 1500m race run in the US.

[ATK]

Is 3:31.55 the fastest ever on U.S. soil?

Yes. I could be wrong, but the previous best looks to have been 3:32.34 by Rashid Ramzi of Bahrain in May 2006

[steveu]

John Kerr just dropped a 3:31.55 there!
plus
Rob Napolitano 3:35.63
Colby Alexander 3:35.81

Is 3:31.55 the fastest ever on U.S. soil?

[Atticus]

Sorry for the pedentary but it is Josh Kerr.

Kind of important to him! Sorry.

[Trickstat]

Kerr moves up to 7th on the UK all-time list (behind Farah, Wightman, Cram, Coe, Grice & Ovett).

[cigar95]

John Lester, a high school senior at Amador Valley, ran 1:47.65.
He came in 7th place in the 800m.

That makes him #6 all time high school, and #3 in California. (The 2 ahead of him were both national records at the time.)

[NotDutra5]

John Kerr just dropped a 3:31.55 there!
plus
Rob Napolitano 3:35.63
Colby Alexander 3:35.81

Sorry for the pedentary but it is Josh Kerr.

[Jacksf]

John Lester, a high school senior at Amador Valley, ran 1:47.65.
He came in 7th place in the 800m.

[Atticus]

Why does the results page list that international athletes attained the USOT qualifying mark? Is it at all relevant that Josh Kerr, for example, bettered the USOT Q of 3:37....

The software does it for anyone.

Eric Jenkins just won the 5000 in 13:20.18.

[SoCal45]

John Kerr just dropped a 3:31.55 there!
plus
Rob Napolitano 3:35.63
Colby Alexander 3:35.81

Why does the results page list that international athletes attained the USOT qualifying mark? Is it at all relevant that Josh Kerr, for example, bettered the USOT Q of 3:37....

[Dave]

Centrowitz runs 3 consecutive 800 heats: 1:50.3 1:49.7 1:53.9. Looking strong.

I saw his best time and was really concerned. Now that I see that he ran three heats, it looks like he is really ready for the trials.