Even More 800U Goodness "Old Age"* Is No Barrier

Harry Stants helped set the World Record in the 45-50yo 4 x 800M last week in Beantown.  Congrats, Harry.  From Mark Wimmer and Ron Moore:

Have to give a shout out to Harry Stants who was part of a World Record setting 4x800 relay at the  Boston University Last Chance Meet in Boston.  Harry and 3 other BAA teammates set a world record for the 4x800 Indoor relay for 45-50 year olds. The old record was 9:51.95 which they crushed by going sub 9.  Harry can give splits and world record time.  Time doesn't matter though as a world record is a world record.  Congrats to Harry and his teammates!

Reply from Harry:

Thanks guys and MarkWimmer for the shout out. It really would not have been if my B.A.A. teammate Chris MaGill (Iona '95) hadn't combed the records to find this weak record and twisted our arms to go after it. I had some hamstring issues going into it, but all was fine for the race. We ran 8:57.09  (previous record was 9:51) and our splits were (Davenport 2:16.9, Georgules 2:11.8, Stants 2:16.6, MaGill 2:11.6). It was funny we were the last event of the B.U. Last Chance meet, so people were filing out of the building as we're starting. There were 2 other college teams in the race that shellacked us and a third track club that was only 12 seconds in front of us. We also recruited a team of younger guys to pace us, which helped a lot. The record isn't official yet, we're working with USATF to make it official, should be soon.

*  "old age" as defined by recent graduates