{"id":1508,"date":"2019-02-20T23:19:24","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T23:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/?p=1508"},"modified":"2019-02-20T23:22:32","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T23:22:32","slug":"laura-muir-smashes-31-year-old-british-indoor-mile-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/laura-muir-smashes-31-year-old-british-indoor-mile-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Laura Muir smashes 31-year-old British indoor mile record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BBC SPORT REPORT:<\/strong> Scot Laura Muir smashed Kirsty Wade&#8217;s 31-year-old British record to win the women&#8217;s indoor mile in Birmingham.<\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old finished in four minutes 18.75 seconds, breaking Wade&#8217;s mark of 4:23.86.<\/p>\n<p>Muir told BBC Sport: &#8220;I knew I was in great shape. It was about winning the race, but also about running fast.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m so chuffed to get the record on home soil. I knew the split halfway and knew I was there and thereabouts. The crowd were fantastic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Her time was the third fastest indoors in history, behind Ethiopian great Genzebe Dibaba (4:13.31) and Romanian Doina Melinte (4:17.14).<\/p>\n<p>She ran the first 1500m in 4.01.83, which is faster than her own British indoor record of 4:02.39.<\/p>\n<p>Muir will be hoping to defend her 1500m and 3,000m European indoor titles in Glasgow from 1-3 March.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source\/More Info: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/athletics\/47265673\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/athletics\/47265673<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Media Image Credit: Wiki Commons<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:312_3000m_muir_ereronde_(32505895064).jpg\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:312_3000m_muir_ereronde_(32505895064).jpg<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en-gb\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Laura Muir sets the third fastest indoor mile of all time, smashing the British record in the process <\/p>\n<p>Watch   <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3DfWzve6E0\">https:\/\/t.co\/3DfWzve6E0<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ammt2Th9jM\">pic.twitter.com\/ammt2Th9jM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; BBC Sport (@BBCSport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BBCSport\/status\/1096816476537999360?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">16 February 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC SPORT REPORT: Scot Laura Muir smashed Kirsty Wade&#8217;s 31-year-old British record to win the women&#8217;s indoor mile in Birmingham. The 25-year-old finished in four minutes 18.75 seconds, breaking Wade&#8217;s mark of 4:23.86. Muir told BBC Sport: &#8220;I knew I was in great shape. It was about winning the race, but also about running fast. &#8220;I&#8217;m so chuffed to get the record on home soil. I knew the split halfway and knew I was there and thereabouts. The crowd were fantastic.&#8221; Her time was the third fastest indoors in history,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1511,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1508"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1508"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1510,"href":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1508\/revisions\/1510"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}