Charlie Kern defends masters mile title at New Balance in Boston

Charlie Kern

Charlie Kern goes where the competition is. Today in Boston, he was in a masters mile at the New Balance Indoor Grand Prix, an elite meet in which his event was first on the track. See results here. Several Twitter feeds tweeted results instantly, including Larry Eder’s RunBlogRun, which covered the mile thusly: “Kern has run 34-68-1:38-2:11 at 800, Charlie Kern, Ray Pugsley, 3:17-another 66!-3:51-one to go!-4:22.2!” In 2011, he ran the meet record 4:19.73. Here’s the interview FloTrack did a year ago at the same meet. Kern is 42. Nice race, Charlie!

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February 4, 2012

4 Responses

  1. peter taylor - February 4, 2012

    The actual time for Charlie appears to have been 4:22.09. Excellent. Charlie is one of the smoothest striders we have in masters T&F, and I look forward to announcing him in Bloomington.

    So far, Charlie has not entered the M40 mile at nationals, but I believe he will do so. At this point there are no entrants at all for Bloomington in the M40 mile, but I hope we can get at least 15 when all is said and done (regular deadline is one week from Friday).

  2. Ken Stone - February 4, 2012

    BTW, this meet will be televised at 2 p.m. Eastern time on Super Sunday:
    http://usatf.org/News/Suhr-breaks-American-record-at-New-Balance-Indoor-.aspx

    PV geeks will get to see an American record by Jenn Suhr. I doubt they’ll show the masters mile. But hope remains.

  3. KP - February 5, 2012

    Nice 8-lapper Charlie. Welcome to Indoor Ray.

    KP

  4. Texas Tornado - February 5, 2012

    That’s beautiful running.

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