Official 2017 5th Avenue Mile Discussion Thread - Simpson v Coburn + King Ches makes his pro debut

The race TV coverage appears to have been bumped by Irma coverage.

At least where I live in Central Time Zone.

A downhill mile on the famous 5th Ave GRANITE. Lets not take for GRANTED her performance.

Not an Ivy wrote:

I would say she made it look easy.

She was struggling on the 3rd quarter and had to dig pretty deep to make that last surge nearly tying up at the finish. Just because someone looks good crossing the finish line and they are smiling doesn't mean it was a walk in the park. Jenny Simpson, while a great runner, doesn't just casually drop a 4:15 road mile. She went to the well.

Mine was bumped by "Inside Indiana Business" though the channel guide on my TiVo said Road Running. Very frustrating. Thankfully, I have a login for NBCSN, and still caught the women's race. Great race by Simpson. Looking forward to watching the men on YouTube whenever it ends up there.

what was the final time for women? TV and many others incl. NYRR twitter are saying it was 4:16.65 (which would be just off the CR), but official results say it was 4:15.58:

https://twitter.com/nyrrnews/status/906941179622825984

https://liveresults.nyrr.org/e/NYRR-5THAVEMILE-2017#/leaderboard/pro-women-1mile/FINISH

Which is correct?

Top American finishers were Ben, Colby, Jenkins. All 3:52. 3rd, 5th, 6th.

Great international field. 5 or 6 WC 1500 finalists competed.

With 100 to go, there had to still be 12 guys with a chance to win.

Old man Willis is amazing at 34 yrs.

I think this was the first year with chip timing. In the past, the results indicated hand timing. The results only went to tenths of a second. So anyone starting in the second row could very well be bumped up in the live results vs someone who started in the front row even tho they may have finished behind them at the finish.

Blankenship and Alexander were 2nd and 3rd in the live results based on chip time but actually 3rd and 5th at the finish.

That was a monster race for Judd.

Where were Andrews and Cheserek

Concupiscurd wrote:

Simpson with another win. She makes it look easy and also broke the course record.

A bit of trivia, Wetmore's first athlete to win a 5th Avenue Mile event was John Carlotti in the boys' H.S. division back in 1982.

NOP Skeptic wrote:

Not an Ivy wrote:

I would say she made it look easy.

She was struggling on the 3rd quarter and had to dig pretty deep to make that last surge nearly tying up at the finish. Just because someone looks good crossing the finish line and they are smiling doesn't mean it was a walk in the park. Jenny Simpson, while a great runner, doesn't just casually drop a 4:15 road mile. She went to the well.

I'm aware that she had to run hard. That said, she made it look easy.

Not an Ivy wrote:

NOP Skeptic wrote:

She was struggling on the 3rd quarter and had to dig pretty deep to make that last surge nearly tying up at the finish. Just because someone looks good crossing the finish line and they are smiling doesn't mean it was a walk in the park. Jenny Simpson, while a great runner, doesn't just casually drop a 4:15 road mile. She went to the well.

I'm aware that she had to run hard. That said, she made it look easy.

Considering that her PR was 3 seconds faster than anyone else in the field, i wouldn't call that an easy victory.

Fast times. Anyone in the women's field who did not run a personal best for a road mile?

...a lot of white athletes today; where were the actual champions from the top African countries..?

Trialswatcher wrote:

Where were Andrews and Cheserek

Andrews finished in 3:55 and Cheserek in 3:57. So far, the NYRR only has the top ten listed. Both are well out of that.

Lots of Caspers wrote:

...a lot of white athletes today; where were the actual champions from the top African countries..?

Agreed.

But perhaps some of those athletes are not tempted by a very long trip to NYC.

Thought we might at least see Sifan Hassan, since she is with NOP and was running well at the end of the track season.

Is it a pro debut if you don't make any money?

His uniform attire was as atrocious as his "pro" debut.

Frank Lee wrote:

Is it a pro debut if you don't make any money?

been around ya' know wrote:

That was a monster race for Judd.

She's had an incredible season/2017 and made up for a number of years of underperformance and injuries all at once. I mean, at 17 she'd run 2:00, 4:09 and 9:08.

Well over 30 races, English National cross country champion, 4:03 PB for 1500m (4:09 before '17), 8:43 PB for 3000m (9:00 before '17), British universities/collegiate champion over 800m and 5000m and now a ~25 sec road mile best.

Still only 22 years old.

(Maybe someone could put Mary Cain in touch?)