Love them Lisas! Valle and Daley lead record assault in California
Lisa Daley
Lisa Valle got hugs in Lahti after her 4x4 relay bronze. (Photo by Ken Stone)
Lisa says she only started hurdling in April, and the record came in her second race!
“The first race was at the New Jersey Open and Masters Championships, when I ran 1:07:75, which was good enough to qualify me for the National club Championships,” Lisa says. “I run for Central Park Track Club and hoped to score more points for my team with this new event.”
The same day and place Lisa Valle brought down the steeple record, Charlie Brown of San Diego upped the M55 American record in the vault to 4.20 meters (13-9 1/4), topping the listed national record of 4.13 (13-6½) by Dennis Phillips at Brisbane worlds in 2001. Charlie turned 55 earlier this month, says USATF West Regional Coordinator (and meet director) Mark Cleary.
At the Western State masters meet at UC Davis, a couple hours east of San Francisco, Olympian Ed Burke demolished his own M70 world record in the hammer throw on four of his six throws Saturday, culminating with an ungodly of 58.60 meters (192-03). (See results here.) His series: 56.94, 56.60, 57.32, 54.38, 55.03 and the whopper 58.60.
Not only is the 58.60 the best ever by an M70, but it also exceeds his own listed M65 world record of 55.74 (182-10) set in 2006. (But the M65 hammer is 5 kilograms, while the M70 hammer is 4 kilograms.)
And just for giggles, Ed added American records in the weight and superweight Sunday — going 20.82 (68-3 3/4) and 11.66 (38-3 1/4), respectively. The listed W70 American records are 19.12 (62-8) by Bob Ward for the 16-pound weight and 11.43 (37-6) for the 35-pound superweight (also by Bob Ward).
Also at the Club Championships at SF State, 39-year-old Jeff Laynes won the 100-meter dash in 10.51 seconds — into a slight wind. (See results here.) Jeff turns 40 in October and apparently is poised to crush the listed M40 American record of 10.73 by Aaron Thigpen.
The weekend’s only downer news was the announced retirement of 39-year-old professional hurdler Allen Johnson, the 1996 Olympic champ.
But Allen might not quit track altogether, and masters still beckons.
See you at Sacramento worlds next year, Allen! (And you, too, Stacy.)
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Congrats to both Lisa’s—awesome runs and such fast times! Way to go. Ken, the picture you show at the beginning of the post is not Lisa Daly, it’s Maurelhana Walles (W35-39), although I may have just butchered the spelling of her name–if so, apologies!
Thank you, Terry, for pointing that out. That is indeed Maurelhena Walles in the photo, not Lisa Daley.
Watch for both Lisa Valle and Lisa Daley to tear up the track in Sacramento next week (yes, next week. After months of anticipation the meet is going to start in 10 days. Is that really possible?) Stars like Lisa Daley and Lisa Valle will help to make it a huge success.
Ed actually threw the hammer 59.04m at a meet in Tahoe last month, but I believe that mark cannot be ratified, unfortunately. As for Ed’s 28.82 AR in the weight throw, he just missed another WR- the mark by Arne Lothe is 20.85!!! We had a great meet-lots of new nation-leading marks, temperate weather (we go Friday evening, and Saturday and Sunday morning to beat the heat), a WONDERFUL offical and volunteer crew, and a great turnout with over 200 entries!
CONGRATS to all on such tremendous performances this past weekend! What a great accomplishment by Lisa Daley to have broken that record while racing the event for only the second time. Great job everyone!!! Can’t wait to see you all in SAC!
I see the results for Western States have the 2600 meter Steeplechase listed as an event that was contested. Is that correct?
Congrats to both Lisa’s but especially to Ms Valle whom I now know as a cool person and an incredbile runner.
Hi Mellow Johnny, the event was supposed to be the 3k steeple, but a lap miscount left the runner one lap short!
Congratulations to Lisa Valle and to Lisa Daley who has also put down a SUPER 200m race this year as well. I will be running up to the bleachers after my 200m race to watch her run — AWESOME!!
Hey Mary-
Thanks for the info, I was wondering if that was it. At least you had it reflected correctly in the results as far as the distance- rarely do you ever see that done and I think it’s the right way to handle it.
Funny to hear that as I almost had the same problem in my steeple on Saturday at the State Games of Oregon. They switched lap counters mid-race (why you’d do that I don’t know) and so the new guy panicked and was one lap short from 5 on down even though I kept telling him it was wrong when I went by. He even rang the bell a lap early. I just kept running as I knew (unfortunately) my time couldn’t be that good!
Wow- I just caught my typo on Ed Burke’s AR in the weight throw! Should read 20.82- sorry!
http://www.usatf.org/events/2010/USAMastersOutdoorTFChampionships/schedule.asp
Nationals time schedule has posted!
Besides having to run between 1 or later myself, I was also hoping to see Lisa Valle and Karen Steen throw down 2 WR’s in the 2K steeples for their respective age groups.
With them running at 12:30pm (at the earliest), don’t see that happening…
Huge bummer for the ‘chasers all the way around
Yeah the steepler’s get hosed with the schedule every year.
The correct photo of Lisa Daley is now posted.
Sorry for the mistake!
Congrats to both Lisas. They are both amazing!! I was honored to run on the 4×200 relay team this year with Lisa Daley in Kamloops. She ran a blistering anchor leg to seal up the gold for us.
Congrats Lisa!!!!!!! Who knew you could Hurdle as well!!!!
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