Elle Purrier smashes 37-year-old American indoor mile record at 2020 Millrose Games | NBC Sports

and you look at purrier hilts debut stafford all had breakout seasons last year at multiple different distances so the new york road runners women's want to make a mile is underway and who will be fortunate enough and good enough to win this famed event also making her american racing debut is gemma ricky who has been performing amazingly well the runner from great britain 21 year old will keep an eye on her first ever race in the us we see her on the right of the screen on the inside looking around a little bit just last weekend she ran a personal best by five seconds in the 800 meters on the indoor 800 meters an amazing breakthrough for she's always thought of herself more as a 1500 meter miler this event but that 800 meters 157 91 the fastest in 14 years coco closter hoffman sits a very comfortable second and to your point craig coco put a hurting on a very talented field here a year ago as i mentioned her coach pete julian feels that she can't win big races by pushing from the front that the great runners like stefan hassan and helen o'beery will just sit on her and run by her as has happened at the world outdoor championships in the 5 000 meters last year where cluster often did win the bronze medal so they need to work on her last 400 meters last two laps on this track so that she can be competitive in those big championship races ricky well placed with number six they're just ahead of the black and white outfit of ellie puria you spoke about five thousand meters period said in recent times i'm not sure if i'm a milo or if i'm a 5 000 meter runner but i enjoy trading for both distances i asked her in front of her coach mark coogan yesterday what are you are you a mile or a 5000 meter runner and i think he thinks he's a 5 000 meter runner i think she's more partial to the mile the event she won at the ncaas when she was at the university of new hampshire and ellie is tough she grew up on a farm in vermont and is used to hard manual labor she said this kind of stuff made her a little bit soft but you see at the end of a race like this her determination and she will be there with the likes of foster health see what riki can do in her first run in the united states sits in a good third behind debut stafford so they had asked for a pace of 209 at the half mile 208 96 is what they ran a very fast time remember a year ago it was gloucester often who ran a national record of 419 breaking the 420 barrier and this is exactly what her coach didn't want her to do didn't want her to be in the lead pushing the pace like this says she's very very fit but he really wants her to focus on those last two laps the last 400 meters it's a german leading a canadian leading a brit and then america's ellie perria bruce stafford is second with multiple personal best last year she's a training partner of ricky who's in third and also laura muir from great britain as it's less than two laps to go now that british record that ricky said just blew her and everybody away recently we'll see what she can do here if she wins wins this one this would be an upset over the likes of coco cluster alpha inside the final two laps now well that's kind of speed 157 speed in an 800 makes her one of the fastest in the world but you've got to be on the shoulder of someone like claustrophobic to have a chance look at the run by courier remember i said as the bell goes curia is terrific at the end of these races and she moves to third now she gets past stafford for second she's got cluster health and in her sights has a quick look over her shoulder here comes puria the meat record is set by safar hassan at a 419. we're at 406 now [Applause] that's an amazing run second on the all-time list ever at an american record for ellie perrier look at that she has stunned herself her personal best 4 24 she ran an 8 second personal best and you called it she moved up gradually put herself in just the right position i thought she had a lot of work to do here still giving up five meters on the back stretch but she never gave up kloster hoffman went with 400 meters to go and she was instructed to do but she was vulnerable in that home stretch and imperial does just the right thing getting up on her shoulder getting the measure of her and then running by in the home stretch 4 16 85 an american record a meet record an eight-second personal best for ellie pereira and foster hoffman gets a pb as well but 24 year old american ellie puria wins the new york road runners women's wanna make up mile lewis ellie you are standing here with a trophy that represents a lot today you win the mill rose games want to make a mile but you have also set an american record what do you think about this moment i didn't know that yes you did oh my god i don't know i just like held on for dear life and kicked as hard as i could you did a lot of things could you just describe the patients you had early as coco was now leading late and how you just waited to the right time to kick yeah i mean i just knew that it was going to be fast with everybody that was in the race and so i started to hang on and mentally be tough for that last lap every athlete waits for a special moment and this is one setting an american record how does this set you up for the rest of the year where you hope more special things happen i don't know i'm just excited congratulations you

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Published: Sun Feb 09 2020