New Canadian road mile record for men 70-75 set in New Brunswick
Raymond Caissie, 71, runs a 5:54 at New Brunswick mile race, shaving a cool 20 seconds off the previous record
Raymond Caissie, 71, of Richibucto-Village, N.B. set a new Canadian record of 5:54 for the road mile for men in his age group on Sunday in northern New Brunswick.
Caissie took a whopping 20 seconds off the record at the Miramichi Mile race, finishing fourth overall. He said he would have been even faster, but he had run a hard 5K the previous day, and his legs were tired. (He finished second overall in that race, with a time of 19:38.)
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“It feels good!” Caissie told us, about his new record. The previous record of 6:16 was set in 2017 by Barrie Dargie. Dargie still holds the 65-70 record of 5:33, which he set in 2012.
Caissie’s nearest rival is a woman named Patty Blanchard, who pushed him in the 5K, and who plans on contesting the Canadian mile record for women 60-69 at the second of two mile races hosted by the Miramichi River Runners next Sunday, August 19th.
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Caissie will be back again too, trying to beat his own record. Last month Blanchard set a new record in the 1,500m for women 60-64.
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