Jen Toomey toppled an Alisa Harvey mile record
Jen Toomey is 36. Last Saturday in Boston, she ran the mile at the Reebok indoor games in 4:36.27. You can look it up. The Boston Globe reports that Jen, who missed much of the 2006 and 2007 seasons to injury, wasn’t thrilled by the effort. “When asked how she felt about her time, Toomey added, ‘It’s fine. I’m certainly not going to call everyone and tell them about my time. It gives you a platform to jump off of and go from there.’ ” Well, her time merely shatters the listed W35 world indoor record by 12 seconds. It’s 4:48.52 by Alisa Harvey in 2005. But it’s not the best W35 indoor mile on record. That would probably be 4:21.79 by later-dope-tainted Regina Jacobs in 2000 (when Regina was 36). You can look that up, too.
I may be a broken record on this, but our records are broken! I mean the process of vetting and ratifying world and American records. I’m beyond blue in the face. I’m deep purple, with hints of green and magenta.
Can’t someone within WMA and USATF take responsibility for this shameful situation and resolve to fix it? Athletes set records that truly aren’t. Athletes set true records that are ignored. Media blithely cite the incorrect ones.
Who’s in charge of USATF and WMA records?
You can look it up.
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Way to go Jen. I met Jen at the last BU meet I attended. She’s an amazing athlete and runs with focus and strength.
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