Ed Whitlock displays modesty on milestone 1500
In the wake of his M75 world indoor record at 1500 meters, Ed Whitlock posted some comments on a letsrun message board on the remarkable feat. Ed writes: “Well 5:31 is maybe not too bad off a training regime of glacial paced long runs around the cemetery. But I don’t recommend it as proper training for the 1500 at least in the absence of some races at a similar distance. Anyway it is certainly not that great when you compare it to Earl Fee’s M75 indoor mile record of 5:41. Still hoping to improve though.”
Then, referring to fellow Canadian Earl Fee, Ed writes:
“When I run against Earl he is giving away a couple of years. That was enough advantage for me to beat Earl in a couple of indoor 1500m battles in 2003 and 2004. In 2003 Earl led from the start just in front of Jim Irons (m60) They gained a lead of almost 40 metres on me but I caught them up with 200m to go.
“I passed them both with just over 100m to go but Jim beat me on the finishing straight, my time 5:14.15. In 2004 again Earl led from the start but this time I stayed with him and overtook him with 250m to go and won in 5:18.39. Earl’s world mile record was set in the US masters champs, 2004 I believe.
“I’m not sure when we will have another battle, I believe Earl has decided to limit himself to track races less than 1500m now. Maybe I’ll have to go down to 800m where he will trounce me.”
