Minnesotan 13-year-old Grace Ping lowered her own age group world record in the girls 5K on Sunday at the Portland Track Festival, posting an excellent time of 16:25.63 against a field of professional women.
Ping, who turns 14 on July 7, finished 10th overall.
The incoming Winona Cotter (Mn.) High freshman, who spent the last year in Utah running unattached, lowered her previous world record by a little more than a second.
Her new record puts her only one second behind Emily Pidgeon's 14-year-old age group world record of 16:24.28.
Ping last accomplished the record in March in another professional field, producing a time of 16:26.83 in San Francisco.
Ping will head back to Minnesota in the fall, where she will lace up at Winona Cotter, where she burst onto the scene as a seventh grader. Ping has six age group world records and was sixth-place finisher at NXN last year.
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