Friday, January 31, 2025
University Park, PA

by Marty Mazur

The second meet of the 2025 Indoor Mile Series was more sparsely attended than the first. This usually happens when the Indoor Mile is part of the big Penn State National meet. The open mile gets scheduled for a Friday afternoon and not as many people choose to leave work early to compete. In addition, several runners from the Penn State Cross-Country were participating in a competitive fundraiser, so not as many of them were at the meet. There were only two heats and the first heat only had four runners (there were a lot of scratches).

In the first heat, Masters runner Matt Smith easily took first place in 5:50.78. Laurel Wellman was the only female runner of the day and she was second in 6:29.58. In the fast heat, the top four runners all beat the best time of the first Series meet. Nathan Allen was first in 4:28.03, narrowly beating Owen Stricker who finished in 4:28.91. Most of the fast heat runners beat their times of the previous meet.

The next meet will be the last in this year's Indoor Mile Series and will be held on Saturday, February 8 at 11:30 AM. There will be heats of the mile along with a predicted time contest and one heat of the 3000 meter run. Make sure you sign up by the cutoff time on Wednesday!

 

Heat 1 Winners: Matt Smith (right, first place) and Laurel Wellmand (left, second place)

 

Fast heat top two: Nathan Allen (left) and Owen Strickler (right)

 

Heat 1
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Place  Name                      Time
-----  ----                      ----
 1     Matt Smith               5:50.78    (M)
 2     Laurel Wellman           6:29.48
 3     Bob Ferguson             6:58.92    (M)
 4     Marty Klanchar           7:21.23    (M)


Heat 2
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Place  Name                      Time
-----  ----                      ----
 1     Nathan Allen             4:28.03
 2     Owen Strickler           4:28.91
 3     Zack Mitarotonda         4:30.67
 4     Liam Goldsworthy         4:31.52
 5     Vince Fadale             4:33.70
 6     Winter Parts             4:33.84    
 7     James Behrend            4:34.23
 8     Benjamin Jones           4:39.68
 9     Charles Wood             4:50.48    
10     Cam Mallet               4:55.25
11     Sam Endres               5:01.47
12     Steven Barnard           5:04.55
13     Sean Devlin              5:21.42    (M)

(M) Masters Runner