New 4 mile road record ( to be confirmed)

Ceepo

Sean Tobin hit form today in Clonmel in the annual St Stephens day 4 mile road race. When he broke the National 4 mile road race record. Setting a time of 17.45. Or approx 4.26 per mile pace.
Noel Berkely previous old record of 17.59 stood since 1992.
If ratified this is also the only one of the road race records on Irish soil.
Amazing performance when you consider it was mostly a solo run.
Absolutely delighted for Sean after a bit of a bad patch earlier this year for a number of reasons.

https://www.premiertimingsystems.ie/2019-Race-Results/MSD-4-Mile-Race-Results


https://www.athleticsireland.ie/competition/statistics/mens-road-records/

MY BAD

Delighted for him, brilliant running. It's a pity we don't see more of the traditional road race distances anymore like 4 mile, 5 mile etc

nannerby

Great run from him..its amazing how long some of those records have lasted.

walshb

1992 is not that long ago, really. The 1980s was where we really started to push on, and into the 1990s.

I think Ray Flynn's mile and 1500 metres records are standing for well over 30 years now, and these are distances that would be more challenged than a 4 mile road race.

youngrun

Great Running thats a serious time

Why is there no 5 mile time down and anyone hazard a guess at it ?

Lots of fast times this week. Athenry 10k had a great race upfront http://www.redtagtiming.com/results/FoA2019.pdf

Ceepo

walshb wrote: »

1992 is not that long ago, really. The 1980s was where we really started to push on, and into the 1990s.

I think Ray Flynn's mile and 1500 metres records are standing for well over 30 years now, and these are distances that would be more challenged than a 4 mile road race.

Amazing to think really despite all the advances in sports science, sports nutrition, running shoes and apparel.
While there are a few outliers the strength and depth of fields are well below that of 20 years ago..

Ceepo

Mellow Yellow 26.2 wrote: »

Delighted for him, brilliant running. It's a pity we don't see more of the traditional road race distances anymore like 4 mile, 5 mile etc

There are still a good number of 4 and 5 mile races on in the Tipp, Waterford Cork area every year. No sure about rest of the country.

MY BAD

Ceepo wrote: »

There are still a good number of 4 and 5 mile races on in the Tipp, Waterford Cork area every year. No sure about rest of the country.

Very few in my neck of the woods. The ones that still exist are on hilly routes and not supported in good numbers compared to 5 and 10km races

Ceepo

Mellow Yellow 26.2 wrote: »

Very few in my neck of the woods. The ones that still exist are on hilly routes and not supported in good numbers compared to 5 and 10km races

That is a pity really.
I have to say 4 mile was one of my favorite distance to race.
All metric distance now I suppose,