Colorado Runner

With her 9:25.28 personal best performance at last Saturday’s Prefontaine Classic in Eugene, Ore., University of Colorado redshirt senior Emma Coburn joined an elite club. Her mark made her America’s fourth-fastest steeplechaser ever –just the fifth to break 9:30– and cemented her status as the favorite to win the USA Olympic Trials on the same Hayward Field track later this month. “My PR prior to this was only 9:37,” a delighted Coburn told reporters after her race. She continued: “To run 9:25, I was really pleased with that. I felt really relaxed the whole time, too, so I’m confident that [...]

World 1500m champion Jenny Simpson will headline the first-ever Wanamaker Metric Mile for Women at the 105th Millrose Games at the Armory in New York City next February.  Simpson’s participation in the meet was announced in a joint statement released by the Armory Foundation, which owns the Millrose Games, and the New York Road Runners, which will be sponsoring and organizing both the traditional Wanamaker Mile for men and the new Metric Mile (1500m) for women. “I am really looking forward to coming to New York for the first ever Women’s Wanamaker Metric Mile in February,” Simpson said through a [...]