Drew Griffith Officially Runs 2 Mile National Record At NBNI

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BOSTON -- It's official now. Drew Griffith ran himself into the record books. 

After netting an unofficial national high school record for two miles in February, the Butler senior followed it up at New Balance Nationals Indoor on Sunday, and this time he simply left no doubt. 

Griffith was well ahead of the pacing lights at The TRACK at New Balance and stopped the clock at 8:34.91, even improving on his former mark by four seconds. Last month Griffith made waves when he ran 8:38.67 on an oversized track at the Alex Wilson Invitational.

While the performance in February was an all-time, all-conditions No. 1, it wasn't counted officially as a national record, given that it came on an oversized track. 

Griffith's performance on Sunday solidified himself in the record books. If the record still technically was there, he sliced five-seconds off of it, downing Edward Cheserek's 8:39.15 from 2013. 

Griffith raced like a metronome, ticking off laps of 31-32-seconds from start-to-finish. He closed in 62 seconds for the final quarter-mile and ran 30 seconds over the final 200 meters.