It mattered little to Jack Graffeo that he was racing the mile on simply 5 days of coaching at Saturday’s Auerbach Freshman-Sophomore Large School Invitational.
With a private better of 4:22 from final yr, he had each intention of constructing a run at Franklin’s Tyler Brogan’s meet file of 4 minutes, 26.75 seconds set in 2018.
Tall and often known as an excellent onerous finisher, Graffeo bolted by means of the opening 800 in 2:10 and pushed his method by means of the tape to decimate the sector and break Brogan’s mark in 4:26.50. The time was all of the extra spectacular by the Westford Academy sophomore on condition that he has been battling a shin harm for the reason that cross nation season.
“It’s a good stepping stone in the right direction,” stated Graffeo. “I had it (the record) in mind and I definitely wanted to give it a shot. I wanted to go out in 63 or 64 (seconds) and do what I could to get the record.”
Training with the likes of teammate and Div. 1 All-State champion Paul Bergeron and a powerful core group of distance runners, Graffeo is assured he’ll run sooner by means of the spring.
“I feel like there’s a lot of speed work to be done,” he stated. “We have a great running environment and we all push each other.”
Wellesley’s terrific distance runners, Charlotte and Emily Tuxbury, ran collectively early within the mile earlier than Charlotte switched gears on the 800 and sprinted house for a private greatest 5:10.74. Emma was second, additionally establishing a private better of 5:13.40, and Cambridge’s Aoife Shovlin took third in 5:15.20.
“We wanted to push each other,” stated Charlotte. “I definitely felt like I saved a little too much earlier in the race. It was pretty smooth early and we definitely worked together.”
The Tuxbury sisters’ teammate, Annie Comella, copped a pair of gold medals in particular person occasions. The sophomore proficient outleaped Gabrielle Pierre of Lincoln-Sudbury with a 17-9-3/4 effort. Pierre took silver together with her 17-2-3/4 effort.
Comella warmed up by turning away a powerful area within the 55 with a really fast, season greatest of seven.33.
“I felt pretty confident about it,” stated Comella. “My start was OK. My start in the preliminaries was definitely better.”
Daniel Killian of Winchester was “locked in” within the 55 last and used a powerful last 20 meters to drag forward for the win in a private better of 6.63, edging out Mansfield’s Myles Brown (6.68).
Killian has been working particularly onerous on his begins out of the blocks and believes he’s forward of tempo from final yr.
“As of late, the’ve (starts) been going good,” he stated. “I really want to improve on my flexibility. I’m not as fluid as I’d like to be.”
Weymouth’s Gracie Richard was simply in need of the meet file within the 1,000 together with her 3:00.80 and Newton South’s Alex Friedman surged onerous down the backstretch to drag away for the win in 2:37.53.
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