Chaplin-Swann sees herself as a record holder
Lesley Chaplin-Swann, bless her super-efficient heart, good-naturedly replied to my cheeky request for details of her W45 American Record in the 1500 over the weekend in Nashville, Tennessee. She took the time to type and send a report despite it being Mother’s Day (she has a grown daughter) and no doubt having better things to do. She writes: “With regards to the race (Saturday): I had run in the SE Masters meet at Duke last week attempting a double record from the mile.”
Lesley continued:
“The (Duke) meet organizers had graciously agreed to have official timers at the 1500 mark for me. I came up short on both attempts, 4.50.3 for 1500 and 5.12.48 for the mile.
“So off to Nashville for another go at the 1500. It was SO windy when we got to Nashville that my husband suggested I not run, but I figured it might calm down a little. I didn’t feel that great warming up, but I have learnt that is not a good predictor for me of how I will run. However, I still had to talk myself into running. I put my spikes on and felt so much better!
“All the college girls I was about to compete against were seeded in the 4.40s so I knew I had the potential for a good race.
“We hit the quarter in 74 right on pace, 2.31 at the half, still good. I just stayed tucked in behind two girls from Milligan. I took the lead just past the bell-lap on the curve — too soon as it turned out. There was a clock at the 200 mark but not one at the finish line. I hit the 200 clock at 4.11, I think, and knew then I had a shot if I could just hold on that last 200.
I got passed in the last 100 and finished fourth not knowing if I had done it or not, I knew it was close! (Memories of my mile at Boston just missing the WR by 2/100 of a second remain fresh in my mind!) They printed off the results and showed them to me. I couldn’t read them since I didn’t have my glasses on! They had to read my time to me! Anyway, one down, two to go!”
Me again:
Who needs eyesight when you have the eye of the tiger? Lesley is one tough runner, and shows it by taking on the kids on their turf.
No doubt we’ll have much more to watch for.
Thanks for the note, Lesley. Hope you had restful Mom’s Day!
Chaplin-Swann sets AR as Americans dominate 800s
Americans broke up the British-German axis of middle-distance strength today at the Linz world masters meet, led by Lesley Chaplin-Swann who won W45 gold in 2:20.99 to set an American 800 age-group record (lowering her own indoor AR of 2:22.37). M65 Sid Howard (2:28.37) added another gold to his world medal collection. Steve Gallegos won M50 in 2:06.90 and Kevin Paulk won M45 in 2:04.03. W70 Mary Harada got a bronze in her 800. Greg Foster went 14.12 (46-4) for gold in the M40 triple jump. (Not the hurdler Foster, BTW). Here, then, is Pete Mulholland’s report on Day 3:
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Jimson Lee - March 18, 2006
…seems like borrowed shoes results in WRs. Remember Tim Montgomery’s 9.78 100m WR? He borrowed Marion Jones’ shoes!
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Mark Cleary - March 18, 2006
His World record as we know now had more to do with drugs he was on –not the barrowed shoes he was wearing.
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I would like to formally say congrats to my teamate Lesley Chaplin Swann on breaking her American record and winning her first World title( I am sure this is the first of many more to come) and to my good friends Sid Howard and Kevin Paulk great running–Steve Gallegos deserves a special award ( I won’t share what Steve’s been through the last year , but he’s been to hell and back and was still able to defend his title–he is a champions Champion–What an awesome job from all of these athletes–Mark Cleary
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Dan Holton - March 19, 2006
Current time in Linz is 9:40 Sunday morning….excellent facility, in the pole vault Chris Duhon won a silver medal last night, I didn’t see it but Johnnye Valien won a gold!
I vault tommorow, will let you know how I do, one complication is that my poles got stuck in the US and won’t be here 🙁 …the UK vaulters were gracious enough to let me use there poles, so we will see how that goes! If all else fails, I spoke to a local coach and he has a pole I could use off of 10 steps, so that is my fall-back, but he did have a good point, you don’t want to come all the way to Austria to vault off a short approach.
So, if any of you know of anyone who has 15′ Carbon FX poles with flexes between 16.0 and 17.0 in the Munich or Linz area, give me a shout out! 🙂
Cheers,
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saladin allah - March 20, 2006
To you all, congratulations.
To my dear friend & companion, Sid Howard, luv ya man!!! Keep showing me the way with your life.
Sal
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