Report: Dale Campbell lowers own M55 American record in steeple
I turn 57 in two weeks. So around this time, my radar goes up for marks by cohorts. Today I learned about a 57-year-old prolific runner names Dale Campbell, who covered a mile in about 5:45. But wait! He did this nearly back-to-back with 10:38.15 for 3,000 meters. But wait! He did this over 36-inch barriers and water jumps. Yup: Dale ran a 3K steeple in a time that beats his own listed American record of 10:39.56, according to a note from fellow M55 star Rich Burns. (The listed M55 world record is the ungodly 9:55.05 by New Zealand’s Ron Robertson in 1997.) Haven’t found results posted online yet, but I suspect the meet was the Coast Classic Invitational at Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa, California. Nice run, Dale!
Dale wears a medal from a 2010 road race at SCA championships.
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Dale Campbell is awesome! I turned 56 March 23rd, and will set two lifetime PR’s after my run today (both this week): most miles in a single run: 20.6, and most miles in a week: 83. We CAN do!
Great run for Dale! He’s a Southern California age group star on the roads and cross country courses, too! Great to see him getting better and better on the track too!! Congrats, Dale, on a stellar performance!!!
Wow, great run! I’ll try to stay out of his way in the M55 Steeple in Sac. 🙂
It does break the single age (57) WR- Great job.
Where is Leonard Hill? Isn’t he 57 as well this year? Ran 10:10 at age 50- should be able to run close to this time.
These guys will be able to run the 36″ barriers full 3K through age 70!!
Ken:
Thanks for the kind words. I do consider us to be competitors since I am a long distance hurdler!
Dale
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