Cornell University

Edna (with javelin) and Sandy (inset) added to their running legends in Ithaca, New York.

Records January 18, 2025

Indoor mile world records fall to W85 Sandy Folzer and W90 Edna Hyer at Hartshorne

The annual Hartshorne Memorial Masters Mile races Saturday morning produced two world indoor records — 9:45.24 in W85 by Sandra “Sandy” Folzer of Philadelphia and 15:01.31 in W90 by Edna Hyer of Orchard Park, New York. Adam Engst, race director and president of the Finger Lakes Runners Club, reports from Cornell University in upstate New York that three USATF officials were on hand for the paperwork. Results are here. Photos and videos are here. Adam writes: In our first race of the day, W85 Sandra Folzer ran a 9:45.24 to bury Ivy Granstrom’s (Canada) previous record of 13:00.96 from 1999…

Men's elite field may not challenge meet record 4:17:98 bu Jim Sorensen 10 years ago.

General January 17, 2019

Prize money returns, team competition added at Saturday’s Hartshorne Masters Miles

I love seeing heat sheets for the Hartshorne Masters Miles — the 52nd edition is Saturday at Cornell University in Ithaca, Snow York. That’s where I learn who submitted 4:56 as a seed time. This year, it’s Brian Lazzaro of Ithaca. Why 4:56? That’s my all-time PR — set indoors at Allen Fieldhouse at the University of Kansas as a 20-year-old senior. (The dirt track is gone, subsumed by a museum beneath the basketball arena.) Brian, 44, will wear Hip No. 7 in the men’s elite race, where Stefan Lingmerth, 41, is top seed at 4:25. (Defending champ Mark Williams…