Gregsons 3.31 AUST RECORD 1500M.
It broke a long standing 19 year old Australian Record by Simon Doyle from 1991, and is a major!!! moment in Australian athletics history...Although one gets the feeling he could smash it by a whole lot more...
Putting it in perspective he would have beaten me by more than 2 minutes on what I did at Masters this year, and most people I know by at least 30seconds to a minute(i.e. 200-500m thrashing, maybe 800m in my case...in a 1500m race)...2.20 per K pace...for Gregsons 3.31 1500m...
I like the fact his Mum gave him $2 for every PB he got as a kid. I remember getting $1 for ever goal I kicked playing AFL as a kid, and 5cents for every fly I killed, pretty soon will be doing similiar with my kids...
Gregsons record... from Aths. Aust. Mottrams 7.50 3000m is 2.36 per K pace (about 13.00 5000m pace), so there is going to be some good battles between birmingham, mottram, gregson, roff, riseley, and people like the two australian college athletes Robert Curtis 27.33 and Shawn Forrest 28.12 ) in Solinskys sub 27min 10k in May this year, in the years ahead hopefully.....
Solinsky ran 12.56 in Oslo June 4th which was a 16 second PB for him, and Collis Birmingham ran a 13.10 PB at the PREfontaine classic on July 3rd 2010. At the PRE meet 5000m race Solinsky "only" managed a 13.08...So its clear that Solinsky and a number of Australian runners are on the charge this year...Of course when Mottram was at his peak he went sub 13 minutes. Can Mottram go back in the sub 13 minute realm, judging on the 7.50 3000m this week, you'd be a game man to bet against him, although he is yet to get back to that yet, he is starting to look like he is very close...
Speaking of runners on the charge and looking a bit closer to home...nice to see CC has made the move over from WA and is racing some of these guys, which has coincided with Roberto Busi winning a lot of races in WA this year...
Will Sarah Jamieson come back and improve on her australian womens 1500m record of 4.00, or run the 5000m or another distance instead?...what will happen in New Delhi, with MONAs team at the commonwealth Games next month...exciting times ahead...
with presumably Gregson and Birmingham in action at New Delhi amongst others...
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Thanks for the Gregson link. That was some PB! Agree he had the perfect race - fast pace and able to stay in lane 1 most of the way. Will be good to see how he goes in Delhi.
Also Mottram. He has another 5k, I think this weekend. Haven't heard anything from Jamieson for ages.
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