Jen Rhines rocks American record in 5000 at Payton Jordan meet
Nat Larson’s comment, we’ve learned about three-time Olympian (and 5X NCAA champion) Jen Rhines crushing the W40 American record at Stanford University on Sunday. At the same Payton Jordan meet where Bernard Lagat went sub-28 in the 10K at 41, Jen went sub-16 in the 5K at the same age. She clocked an amazing 15:45.94 — not far off her PR of 14:54.29. (See results here.) The listed American record is 16:02.27 by Carmen Troncoso in 1999. The listed WR is 15:04.87 by Britain’s great Joanne Pavey in 2014. Nice run, Jen! You’re only 21 seconds away from the automatic qualifying standard for the Olympic Trials.
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Jen’s splits in Palo Alto:
20 Jen Rhines Baa 15:45.94
35.822 (35.822) 1:50.744 (1:14.922) 3:04.550 (1:13.806)
4:17.795 (1:13.245) 5:32.264 (1:14.469) 6:48.066 (1:15.802)
8:02.573 (1:14.507) 9:18.374 (1:15.801) 10:35.439 (1:17.065)
11:52.176 (1:16.737) 13:11.792 (1:19.616) 14:30.088 (1:18.296)
15:45.936 (1:15.849)
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Michael Walker - May 4, 2016
An impressive 5K performance and an excellent time for anyone but I do wonder if Jen Rhines would agree that she was just off her PR of 14:54.29 but still a great run. Hope she can improve by 20 seconds to get the Olympic trials standard.
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