Y ask Y: Whether it's a high schooler named Webb or middle-agers named Shaheed or Smith-Hanna, the middle of the fields of recent miles have provided the most startling results. This morning in Atlanta, Nolan Shaheed of Southern California demolished his own world indoor record in the M50 age-group, running 4:27.14 -- more than eight seconds faster that his previous M50 best of 4:35.51 set March 25, 2000. The men's mile went out in a relatively slow 66-67 seconds and picked up speed after that, I'm told. In the women's mile at the Georgia Dome, Carolyn Smith-Hanna finished "last" in a huge W50 world record of 5:22.92 -- smashing a nearly 20-year-old record of 5:40.1 by America's Mila Kania on March 20, 1983. In late December, Smith-Hanna showed her fitness by lowering the American record in the indoor 1500 to 5:05.01. The W50 world record for 1500 is 4:51.8 by Britain's Pat Gallagher set in February 1998. The age-graded conversions of Shaheed's and Smith-Hanna's times are impresive as well, with Smith-Hanna's time considered the equivalent of a 4:37 open mile and Shaheed's a 3:53. I think both are age 51. Event 46 Men's 1 Mile Run Masters Results - Final - Saturday 03/03/01 RANK COMP# ATHLETE NAME TEAM TIME ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 112 Graeme Fell Unattached 4:18.43 2 210 Anselm LeBourne Unattached 4:19.22 3 90 Tom Dalton Adirondack TC 4:23.31 4 279 Sam Ngatia So Cal TC 4:26.29 5 337 Nolan Shaheed, 51 So Cal TC 4:27.14 6 11 Jamin Aasum So Cal TC 4:29.02 7 252 Tim McMullen Genessee Valley Harriers 4:32.32 8 121 Stuart Galloway Niagara Oly. Club 4:35.06 9 378 Dave Van Houten Byrn Mawr RC 4:36.14 10 275 Steve Nearman, 41 Team United 4:36.55 11 129 Dave Clingan, 46 Portland Masters 4:40.56 - 377 John Tuttle Atlanta TC DNS (Unsure of other ages in this race) Event 47 Women's 1 Mile Run Masters Results - Final - Saturday 03/03/01 RANK COMP# ATHLETE NAME TEAM TIME ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 281 Madelyn Noe, 40 or 41 Asics Club East 5:10.24 2 109 Kellie Eyre Atlanta TC 5:16.80 3 346 Carolyn Smith-Hanna, 51 Genessee Valley Harriers 5:22.92 - 138 Christine Gregorek, Unattached DNF - 117 Patty Ford Syracuse Chargers DNS - 263 Rose Monday Fila Club West DNS Ken Stone http://www.masterstrack.com
