Valle, Gillespie win masters middle-distances at big Portland meet
Britain native Ian Gillespie, 41, won the masters mile in 4:22.18 and American Lisa Valle took the masters 3,000 yesterday at the Portland Track Festival — in races notable for no-shows as much as their marks. Women’s race organizer Joanna Harper says almost half her field couldn’t come, but “it was still a good race with Tania leading Lisa the whole way and Lisa kicking to the win. They were both close to the 9:57 W45 AR, but there was no record to be had last night. It was a beautiful night for racing and some of the open races had impressive results.†(See results here.) They also had a masters 100-meter dash, with some names I’m not familiar with. The winner in 12.35 was Mark Berry, who mastersrankings.com lists as 49. Pretty nifty. Here’s the mile:
I don’t know much about Ian beyond his IAAF bio. Welcome to masters, Ian!
Here’s the women’s 3000 at Portland:
Event 14 100 Meter Dash Masters Men
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Meet: R 12.41 6/12/2010 Jay Martin, Unattached
Name Year Team Finals
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Section 1
1 283 Berry, Mark Unattached 12.35R
2 276 Irving, Marcus Allegiance Athle 12.48
3 146 Sanders, Steve OTCM 12.59
4 346 Hasan, Naim Unattached 12.84
Event 89 3000 Meter Run Masters Women
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Meet: R 9:56.26 6/13/2009 Trina Painter, McMillan Elite
Name Year Team Finals
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1 213 Valle, Lisa Unattached 10:00.62
2 194 Fischer, Tania The Janes El 10:02.37
3 198 Ayala-Troncoso, Ca Unattached 10:28.71
4 207 Olen, Christine Unattached 10:47.44
5 306 MacTavish, Kate Unattached 11:19.63
6 136 Zderic, Miriam Oiselle Running 11:42.93
Event 287 1 Mile Run Masters Men
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Meet: R 4:14.47 6/13/2009 Jim Sorenson, Unattached
Name Year Team Finals
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1 70 Gillespie, Ian Bowerman AC 4:22.18
2 259 Swanson, Jonathan Unattached 4:24.86
3 258 Blackmore, Mike Bowerman AC 4:26.40
4 225 Julian, Tim Unattached 4:45.70
5 22 Cannon, David Unattached 4:49.66
Here are the age-graded results from Portland, courtesy of Joanna:
Name Place Time Age grade
Lisa Valle 1 10:00.62 92.0
Tania Fischer 2 10:02.37 91.8
Carmen Troncoso 3 10:28.71 96.0
Christine Olen 4 10:47.44 83.4
Kate Mactavish 5 11:19.63 84.4
Miriam Zderic 6 11:42.93 89.3
Here’s the masters 100 from Portland:
4 Responses
Mark,
Congratulations on the win! You look great.
Congrats to Mike Blackmore for achieving another mile stone performance…a 4:26 mile at age 49,…94 % age grade.
If I remember correctly, Ian ran the 5000 for Great Brittan in the Olympics, but did not make the final.
He has lived in Portland since 2002 or so. I ran on a couple of Hood to Coast teams with him some years back.
Awesome event and hope to make it there next year @ 50. Congrats to all.
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