So a very deep field,
everyone knows that at the finish line
is a potential winners. Check of 5,000. The halfway mark
gives you one thousand dollars if you're the leader.
And as they get underway, try to find room to run. They also
know for most of them, the end of the season is about four and
a half minutes away. We look at that start list.
You know, you can throw in names like Sage her to. We
saw her in Zurich
Lorimer medalist at Europeans Commonwealth.
And the Oregon. 22 World Championship is you look at
page 2A, Lee Wilson who's had a phenomenal year. He should
probably clear
a lot of the Names that we know and follow all season long and
excellent Deep Field. And this will be interesting to see how
this plays out because we have the athletes that are kind of
coming on now late in the season and we have athletes
have been performing
at the top of the world since July.
And so do those fresher legs, can that help you?
Or is the experience and knowing
that you're finally going to get to take a break? Is that
going to win over as they run now?
On the far left of your screen is the defending champion in
the red Gemma rekey
of Great Britain
and Carol McKeon from Ireland, the 30 year old Fresh Off
setting, a new Irish 1500 meter record last weekend on
the track winning in Brussels.
You see the list of most wins on the list,
no one
and to catch Jenny, Jenny Simpson for a while now. No
time soon and you know as they're coming up till now
approaching. 800 meter, Mark, Jenny Simpson, who won this
race eight times said she never even thought about the halfway
bonus because it would just
come so quick. All of a sudden it would be there.
But one of the women whoever's ahead at 800 meters, as long as
they run under 432, they will get that thousand dollar bonus.
So it's a little bit of, you know, a carrot dangling to pull
the race out a little bit.
They do incentivize that half bonus by
making sure that the
leader at the halfway mark doesn't
Start race walking. There is still a way they got to finish
under 432, Laura mirror now Sprints forward
and try to take advantage and in the back of the pack
see Adele Tracy and others and there is Laura mirror.
And now is pulling away here at the halfway. Mark,
this is a run by Laura. Muir she has had such a long season,
a medal at the World Championships, a gold at
Commonwealth, a bronze at Commonwealth, a gold at
European. She ran in that diamond League final just
a couple days ago
but this is how she likes to run. She likes to push and
she's always easy to pick out of a pack because her arms
really pumped the entire time, but she has really taken off.
And I think may be surprised that pack behind her.
Yeah, blasted away from the field and everyone in Chase,
including Cory McGee the defending Champion Gemma Ricky,
Nicky hilts.
Mcgeehan all there. But look at the distance that Bureau has
put on the field here as they near three minutes on Fifth
Avenue. This is pretty shocking. Paul. You know, she
said that she was feeling a little tired.
It's been a long year but she did want to finish strong, but
we're used to seeing everybody come down to the very end at
the Fifth. Avenue mile who just has seen Claire Johnson said,
who kicks last and sort of see this much of a lead with less
than a quarter. Mile
to go is really surprising and is about his dominant
performance. We've ever seen here.
Lauren Bureau was the runner-up in this race back in 2016. And
as we see it had on,
it is Lorimer and the chase pack,
but that head-on shot doesn't give that lead. Just as you can
see mirror, gutting it out. Now in the closing moments of this
Mile and this is what she's so good at. She is willing to
go to that pain cave. She is willing to make everyone her
into risk her own chances. This is what makes her such a global
Superstar at the 1500.
The race behind her
with Ricky
and hilts.
They finished first and second last year, hilts. Now, into
second ahead of rekey, but No One's Gonna Catch. Laura mirror
on this rainy day, in New York,
that she wins The Fifth Avenue mile
Well, that was so fast.
We don't have the official time right now, but that potentially
was a course record. She really just took that after that 800
meter, Mark, and pushed and pushed. And at no one with her,
they thought maybe she was kicking way too early but that
was unbelievable
and confirmation for 14.8.
So Jenny Simpson has the most victories in the history of
the New Balance Fifth Avenue mile but she no longer has the event
record and that is
The end of a long
track and field season looks like
and maybe surprising yourself. There was a wow out of her
mouth are. Look at the Finish there, for fourteen eight,
and going back to that halfway mark, you know,
thought, maybe it was like, I'm just going to take the half
half mile bonus, and try to gut it out at the end, but no,
she was determined to break loose and boy, did she,
you know, you could all honestly, see the switch in her
Farm her knee. He left got higher her arm Drive, got
bigger. And she really just started to pull away and string
it out.
And into the final strides and across the line, no one
catching Lorimer on this day as she caps off a phenomenal
season. With her first win
in the Fifth Avenue mile. Let's hear from the winner whose with
Louis Johnson. All right. Thanks very much. Ted metellus.
Was offering some assistance here for Laura. After she
finished. Incredible run, just explain to us, how, how were
you able to make such a move with the halfway point and hold
it after such a
long season for this big win?
I just knew, you know, people sometimes search for halfway
point so I thought I'd try and do that and then hold it.
Surprise people a bit. But
yeah, it's a long way
to go
and I certainly feel that that last hundred years but yeah,
horse What happiness, finish the season of the wind when
you're coming down, that the last stretch, are you are you
looking left and Counting blocks? Because
this is like, really the end of your season, right? Yes. Is my
very last week? So yeah, I just kept on thinking
All I got to do Shawn for another minute,
another 300 years, the whole season. So
yeah, just give everything
aligned, and yeah, I did that. And what about eclipsing Jenny
Simpsons, of course, record her event record. You did that.
Yeah, even know what the time is or 14 and some change.
Wow,
you can take that off to the beach. Congratulations on
everything, they see and, of course, finishing with this
Fifth Avenue Iowa. You so much for having me today. I know
it's a it's a sad day today. So
all my thoughts and
And yeah, go to everybody who's been affected and
it's a true honor to be here today in racing today,
Jr. Dr. The same. Thank you. Laura thanks very much guys.