Racing against professional runners yesterday in the mile race at the New Balance Games in NY, Bronxville High School Junior Mary Cain set a new American record time of 4:32.78. Cain’s time broke a record that had stood since 1972 (a 4:38.5 mile by Debbie Heald).
Video of the race is available via Flotrack – it’s well worth a watch!
Watch more video of 2013 New Balance Games on flotrack.org
Below is footage of Cain’s post race interview:
Watch more video of 2013 New Balance Games on flotrack.org
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I enjoyed your article and videos that were posted. I have only one thing to disagree on. Don’t get me wrong, she is a phenomenal athlete and she is very talented for her age and will do many great things in her life especially in running. I believe that her times in the mile, and the 2 mile should not be counted as the American high school for a couple of reasons. One, she didn’t run those times in a high school race, she ran them in a professional race with all professional athletes. This pushed her to run that fast of a time, because in a high school race there would no way she could run that fast with no one pushing her. So in other words, she was helped to run those times so I believe she could not run those times in a high school track meet, where she would need to run that time to fairly have the American high school record. Other than that, I enjoyed your article and it was very well written.