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Leonard
Mucheru, last year's New Balance Games champion in
3:57.90, warms up.
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Pacesetter
Lorris Adams leads Leonard Mucheru on lap one. George
Milik leads on the outside.
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St.
John's graduate John Honerkamp leads current St. John's
runner Jose Zayas.
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Zayas
leads Christian Hesch.
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Just
past 300 meters, Adams and Mucheru have already put
some distance on the field.
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Mucheru
won the Bermuda Road Mile on Friday night before flying
to JFK airport for this Saturday afternoon race.
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Christian
Hesch finished second in the Bermuda Road Mile, which
may have accounted for his sluggishness here.
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Honerkamp
follows Hesch on lap two.
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Hesch
and Honerkamp on lap three (just past 500 meters).
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Milik
and Zayas.
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Ray
Biersback of the New York Athletic Club leads Jason
Bernstein of the Bryn Mawr Athletic Club.
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Mucheru
is looking antsy on lap four, Adams dropped out just
before 800m and Mucheru split 1:55.4.
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Honerkamp
runs well behind Mucheru and begins to pull away from
Hesch.
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Hesch
and Milik.
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Milik,
Zayas, Biersback and Bernstein.
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Army's
Clay Schwabe follows Bernstein.
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Mucheru
on lap five.
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Mucheru
on lap six.
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Honerkamp
with Milik, Schwabe and Zayas close behind.
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Biersback
and Zayas trail the pack led by Honerkamp.
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With
a lap and a half to go, most of the field is involved
in the race for second.
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Schwabe
and Milik lead.
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Christian
Hesch fades to the back and runs 4:23.44 (after running
a 4:12 road mile the day before).
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Mucheru
with 100 meters to go. He finished in 3:55.54, just
off Mark Carroll's meet record of 3:54.98.
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Honerkamp
and Schwabe lead the second pack with just over 100
meters to go (and women's mile runner-up Janet Trujillo
cheers them on).
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Honerkamp
held on for second (4:04.32), Bernstein came up for
third (4:05.11) and Schwabe dropped to fifth (4:05.79).
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Ray
Biersback finished 7th in 4:07.47.
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Mucheru
takes a victory lap.
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Results:
1. Leonard Mucheru, New Balance (KEN), 3:55.54, 2.
John Honerkamp, New York Athletic Club, 4:04.32, 3.
Jason Bernstein, Bryn Mawr AC, 4:05.11, 4. George
Milik, Westchester Puma TC (YUG), 4:05.14, 5. Clay
Schwabe, U.S. Army, 4:05.79, 6. Jose Zayas, St. John's
Univ. (DOM), 4:06.14, 7. Ray Biersback, NYAC, 4:07.47,
8. Christian Hesch, Unattached, 4:23.44
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