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World of Running

New High School mile record by Hobbs Kessler

• Fayetteville, AR (2/7/21 – Sunday) → reported by USATF
• Kessler ran 3:57.66 at the Third American Track League meet in Arkansas
• Broke Drew Hunter’s indoor record of 3:57.81.
• In the same race with Nick Willis and Nick gives us some backstory:
  • More interested in rock climbing
  • Was more eager to play with Nick Willis’ kids than the “old guys”
  • He’s a kid running 30mpw who is just incredibly fast
  • “The biggest news came from third-placer Hobbs Kessler (Ann Arbor, Michigan), a Michigan high schooler who set a national prep record with his 3:57.66, taking down Drew Hunter’s previous record of 3:57.81 from 2016. That time moved Kessler to second on the world U20 indoor all-time list for the mile.

 Athing Mu 50.52 in Open 400 

• College Station, TX (2/6/21 – Saturday) → reported by World Athletics
• If ratified, the 18-year-old’s time would improve the official world U20 indoor record of 50.82 set by 2012 Olympic champion Sanya Richard Ross
• 4th best in US history
• 20th fastest all-time

NCAA Big 10 Championship

• Shelbyville, IN (1/31/21 – Sunday) → reported by Big10 Network
• Michigan State claimed its second consecutive women’s title
• Wisconsin earned its third straight men’s win at the 2020-21 Big Ten Cross Country Championships 
• EXCLUSIVE with champion George Kusche who won the men’s individual title representing 
• Bethany Hasz of Wisconsin was the champion in the women’s race.

Mariko Yugeta ran new W60 world record marathon

• Osaka, Japan (1/31/21 – Sunday) reported by Canadian Running
• In the Osaka Marathon
• 2:52:13
• “smashed the previous W60 world record of 2:56:54, which she set in 2019”

Florian Neuschwander set new 100k treadmill record

• (1/30/21 – Saturday) reported by Runner’s World
• According to Runner’s World: “The 39-year-old completed the distance in 6:26:08—an average of 6:13 per mile!—beating the previous record by six minutes.”
• Even set the TM 50k record last year, but lost it twice over before the year finished
• Apparently lots of people running on treadmills last year

UW indoor preview: Cruz Culpepper ran 3:59.53

• Seattle, WA (1/30/21) reported by Canadian Running
• His first sub-4 mile
• Freshman at University of Washington
• Why significant? Because he joins his father on the sub-4 club and together become only the 13th father-son pair to both be sub-4 milers