The American Milers Club High Performance Series features a mile event tonight in which two well-known athletes will be in the field taking a shot at running a sub-4:00 mile. What makes the race unique is that one of them is (officially) still a high-school athlete, and the other has celebrated his 40th birthday.
The kid is Matt Centrowitz. He won the NON 2-Mile two weeks ago in 8:41, and finished second (by 0.01!) to A.J. Acosta in the 1500m at USATF Junior Nationals last weekend. Centrowitz is bidding to become the fifth American high school runner ever to run sub 4:00 (after Jim Ryun, Marty Liquori, Tim Danielson, and Alan Webb).
The geezer is Jim Sorenson, who turned 40 this year. Earlier this month, Sorenson set the World M40 record at 1500m, running 3:44.06. No M40 runner has ever run sub-4:00 outdoors. The listed world record is 4:02.53, held by Great Britain's Dave Moorcroft. Indoors, Eamonn Coughlin ran 3:58.13 (at the Harvard Track!). Sorenson would dearly love to take a crack at the outdoor record.
The prospect of both runners challenging 4:00 in the same race is tantalizing.
Start list for the 1M on Wednesday night
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Best luck to Centrowitz breaking the 4 minute barrier!
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