Alisa Harvey’s latest record: W45 American indoor best for mile

Alisa Harvey

Alisa Harvey’s indoor season is young, but she already has her first W45 American indoor record—a mile in 5:04.02. That edges the listed W45 national record of 5:04.73 by Joan Nesbit Mabe in 2007. She did it at the Navy Women’s Invitational on Saturday. See results here. “The Navy runner took the lead, but held herself back to run my pace,” Alisa writes. “This kept me wide on her shoulder. So I finally made a strong move past her at the end of lap two. We were 73 seconds for 400. After that I led the race with her on my shoulder. She blew by me with a lap to go. I struggled in with a final slow lap (no split). I could feel the seconds slipping away. Not one of my best races. I hope for more energy next week at Hartshorne.” Congrats, Alisa. Have a great race in New York!

Results from Alisa’s race Saturday:

Women 1 Mile Run
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NCAA Auto: N 4:37.00 2011
NCAA Prov: ? 4:48.00 2010
ECAC: E 4:59.04 2011
Fieldhouse: F 4:59.53 2/11/2010 Jess Palacio, Navy
Navy: @ 4:50.80 2010 Jess Palacio
Name Year School Finals Points
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1 Palacio, Jess JR Navy 4:56.93E 10
2 Condino, Kim SO Penn 5:06.38 8
3 Powell, Megan SO Penn 5:11.03 6
4 Jones, Eunice JR Maryland-Eas 5:15.67 5
5 Kinsella, Megan SO Mount St. Ma 5:18.90 4
6 Pietrosh, Lauren SO Lehigh 5:19.43 3
7 Honrath, Rachel FR Navy 5:20.29 2
8 Smith, Colleen SO Mount St. Ma 5:21.65 1
9 Loewen, Zatha FR Navy x5:21.68
10 Barnett, Lisa SR Penn x5:31.11
11 Haran, Katy SO UNC-Wilmingt 5:41.89
12 Franke, Kathryn SO Mount St. Ma x5:44.22
— Harvey, Alisa UNAT X5:04.02
— Mannion, Breeda UNAT X6:01.53

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January 16, 2011

3 Responses

  1. peter taylor - January 16, 2011

    Wonderful performance by Alisa. It is particularly interesting that only one collegian beat her, even though Alisa is 45. I wonder what the young women from the University of Pennsylvania, for example, thought about finishing behind “an older woman.”

    Let’s see, a major venue (the Naval Academy), FAT, and an important invitational meet; I wonder whether this time will get approved as a W45 record. Looking forward 6 days, it will be interesting to see whether Alisa can run 5:04.01 or better at the Hartshorne on Saturday and make approval a moot point.

  2. Ed Winslow - January 16, 2011

    Congrats!

  3. Gary - January 16, 2011

    Excellent, great effort. It’s great doing this college races as an older person….last year a guy said to me at the line….”good luck sir.” I thought that was funny.

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