Anselm twice set M55 mile WRs indoors in 2015.
This is my semiannual apology for not going the extra mile. Although I always cite “listed record” in my WR reports, I should have checked an authoritative site on who really owns the M55 indoor mile best. My old friend
Alan Sigmon reminds me that
Guy Bracken isn’t the fastest M55 indoor miler, and
Chris Chisholm isn’t the speediest M55 American. That’s because some guy named
Ken Stone told of
Anselm LeBourne running
4:34.79 and 4:37.05 in 2015. (Marks also covered by
Runner’s World and
RunnerSpace.) So how did Anselm’s 4:34 fall out of the deck? Was it not ratified? In fact,
Jeff Brower (our masters records czar)
submitted the AL miles
for approval at the 2015 USATF annual meeting. The problem? The mark wasn’t added to the
USATF and
WMA records pages. That should be rectified quickly. Or else I’ll be forced to memorize my 5,734 blog posts. Or put Alan Sigmon on retainer.
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Better than Bateman’s record outdoor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_world_records_in_masters_athletics#Mile
Thank you for re-posting, and spot on.
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