ECAC Championships: Day 1 results

ECAC Championships, Day 1

Saturday, March 2, 2013

Boston University Track

1,000-meter run preliminaries

9-Kristen Traub 2:53.00

32.8, 66.9 (34.1), 1:42.2 (35.3), 2:18.4 (36.2), 2:53.00 (34.60)

Comments: This was a surprise race in many ways. Kristen was entered in both the 1,000 and the mile, but the plan was her to focus on the mile and most likely scratch the 1000. When the mile entries were posted on Friday afternoon, however, there were only 10 entrants. Thus, there was no need for a trials-and-finals system, with all 10 entries automatically entered in Sunday’s final. This left Saturday an event-free day for her, until we decided to give her a go in the 1,000. And boy, did that work out well! Kristen improved on her personal-best time and ECAC qualifier, set on the same track at the Terrier Invitational back in January, by exactly three seconds (she ran 2:56.00 on that night). Eight runners advanced to Sunday’s final, so Kristen just missed moving on to that … which is fine, considering she has the mile to run on Sunday. This race gives us confidence that Sunday could be a good day for her in the mile. We will see. Her time of 2:53.00 is just off Susan Golden’s outstanding school record mark of 2:52.58, set at the ECAC meet in 2003. It is one of the best records we have on the books, an Kristen came close to getting it. Nicely done!