Patrick Tarpy absolutely dominated the field at the New England Mile this morning, coming in at an impressive 3 minutes, 54.8 seconds. His excellent race was the first sub-4 minute mile run by a Maine runner on Maine soil, and earned him a $1500 bonus that was generously donated by Smith Barney. When the race was over, he was asked at what point he knew that he was going to break 4 minutes. His reply? “Yesterday.”
Congratulations to Pat, and to the rest of the great field of around 300 finishers this year. Official results will be available later this afternoon.
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A short video of the back of the pack is posted.
I took it with my Z710 Kodak which is not a video camera but it will do vidoes.