adminindoor mark on Saturday with yet another victory at Millrose. He finished in 8 minutes, 9.49 seconds at the Armory to beat Galen Rupp’s time by just .23, then fell to the track in exhaustion. “I kept digging deeper toward the end,” Lagat said.
He had hoped to go under 8:09, but he accomplished his goal — just barely. Lagat now owns the American indoor records at 1 500 meters, 1 mile, 3 000 meters, 5 000 meters and 2 miles. Lagat has won a record eight titles in Millrose’s signature event, the Wanamaker Mile.
The past two years, though, he has used the storied indoor meet to set a different kind of standard.
He reclaimed the 5 000 record here a year ago. But on the same day, Rupp broke his mark in the 2 miles, so Lagat took on that distance this year. — AFP.
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