Elle Purrier - Are you F***ing kidding - 4:16.85 full mile FTW at Millrose. AR and #2 all time

KoKo (4:17.26) just off the European record of 4:17.14, Reekie takes down Muir's British record set just last year

2013- 4:56 - 1600 m High School

2014- 4:36 - mile, Freshman in College

2015 - red shirt

2016- 4:29

2017- 4:29, also NCAA runner up

2018- 4:26, 2nd All Time NCAA, NCAA Champion

2019- 4:24 , 4:02 - 1500, 4:16 5th Ave

2020- 4:16- indoor American Record

Very logical progression for a white American.

entertaining stuff wrote:

national records wrote:

National records for USA, Germany, GB, and Canada. If this were a road race it’d only be because they were wearing vaporfly’s, what’s the excuse for this one?

For place 2-4 rojo can of course blame the new Nike spikes, but Purrier who produced the most absurd result (those behind her were really good, but not unexpectedly good) sadly is sponsored by New Balance. Unless NB secretly invented a spike superior to all its competiton, rojo will desperatly try to ignore this result and continue to blame every fast road performance on the shoes (which makes sense because he surely gets paid by Nike to do so).

Also I agree there's no way the winner was clean, but I actually don't care, it's fun to see not only doped up Genzebe do such superman efforts indoors.

Shes clean, and they did.

midpackgirl wrote:

Four women under 4:20, four national records. Millrose never disappoints.

Someone should inspect that track for extra illegal springiness....

rojo wrote:

WOW.

Coming into the race, her 1500 pb was 4:02.34. That converts to a 4:21.77 mile. Her actual mile pb was 4:24.88.

If she were an African, everyone would be saying her record was performance-enhanced...

not epo wrote:

seen so often before wrote:

Prime example of how well epo works. Not even out of breath when she finished, looks like she has changed to the dark side after Doha.

That is blatantly wrong. I had the privilege of training with Elle this summer for a brief period of time and have met her on multiple occasions along with her coach. They are very against the idea of epo and are devoted to a clean sport. What has this world come to where we doubt each and every performance.

I think I read that exact same thing word for word after the owners of this site visited kiprop’s camp and wrote that glowingly complimentary article a couple years ago. Can’t trust anyone anymore. That’s just the way it is.

She is a farm girl...

https://www.runnersworld.com/advanced/a20828779/for-elle-purrier-farm-life-leads-to-fast-times/

bartholomew_maxwell wrote:

rojo wrote:

WOW.

Coming into the race, her 1500 pb was 4:02.34. That converts to a 4:21.77 mile. Her actual mile pb was 4:24.88.

If she were an African, everyone would be saying her record was performance-enhanced...

They'd say, looks like Ramzi!

Haha, spelled my complement wrong.

Coevett would say no African has ever had that kind of progression clean.

biggest compliment! wrote:

Haha, spelled my complement wrong.

Or not... I must be rojo.

New Balance is in fact releasing a track spike to compete with Nike. Emma Coburn was testing them in Boston while her group was in town for New Balance Grand Prix and BU meets.

No Shortcuts wrote:

rojo wrote:

What does that type of breakthrough and shock remind you of? Only thing I can think of is Solinsky's 2659 but admittedly their wasn't a barrier to be broken here unless you think of it as the 4:00 barrier.

Her time converts to a 3:57.8 1500.

Wysocki dropping 12 seconds off her personal best and running 4 flat for 1500, beating reigning WC Decker to make the Olympic team at the 84 trials.

that was a stunner in '84-pretty crazy considering that she was 7th in the NCAA 1500 m final less than 2 years ago--though she was the indoor runner up....

THOUGHTSLEADER wrote:

rojo wrote:

What does that type of breakthrough and shock remind you of? Only thing I can think of is Solinsky's 2659 but admittedly their wasn't a barrier to be broken here unless you think of it as the 4:00 barrier.

Her time converts to a 3:57.8 1500.

Reminded me of Jenny Simpson breaking 4. Is Purrier essentially training alone at UNH with her college coach and doing all this? The 1500 women’s is too loaded though.

Isn't she training under Mark Coogan?

But the Simpson analogy is apt. She was a 9:30sh steepler for a few years and then won NCAAs a couple years ago. A friend wrote a profile on her a couple years ago and I don't think she was doing high miles. Get into a good pro-training group with a good coach, run the 5000 for a season, and the drop isn't so mind-boggling.

Clean world record.

Looks liked she's naturally lean out a bit since her college days which is helping her performance. She is basically the Chris Solinsky of female runners.

bartholomew_maxwell wrote:

rojo wrote:

WOW.

Coming into the race, her 1500 pb was 4:02.34. That converts to a 4:21.77 mile. Her actual mile pb was 4:24.88.

If she were an African, everyone would be saying her record was performance-enhanced...

Because she lives in a country with actual out of performance testing...

Purrier wearing new NB carbon plate spikes that are not available commercially ... Is that legal?

To be honest the entire sport is under a cloud due to doping. Depends on the testing the sport adopts. In cycling they adopted the biological passport. Doping still happens in cycling (Frome, LOL), but it eliminated the insane performances from the 1990s at least.