UPDATED: Framingham High Runner Wins 2 Mile With One Sneaker

UPDATED at 6:15 p.m. with offical times for first-second-third. Originally posted at 2:15 a.m.

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Framingham High student Lucy Matzilevich runs a lot of races. She ran cross-country in the fall and now outdoor track in the spring. But yesterday, she had an unusual race.

She won her 2-mile race with just one sneaker, and she did it in a personal best time.

Matzilevich won the race in 12:08.94 minutes.

Second place was a Walpole runner at 12:12.04 and in third place was a Newton North runner at 12:21.28.

Matzilevich was competing in the Bay State Conference meet on Tuesday, May 26, when another runner caught the back of her heel in the first lap of the 2-mile race.

“My spike was half off. I would have either had to stop running to put it back on or leave it, so I decided to run without it. I saw that I had a chance of winning against the girls racing that day, so I just stayed up with them until the last lap, and ran as hard as I could,” said the high school junior.

She said she didn’t know it was a personal best time until she saw “12:09 on the clock.”

Offically, her time was posted at 12:08.94.

“I was really excited because I had just missed qualifying for states by 3 seconds at the same meet last year, but this time would get me in,” said Matzilevich.

Her time qualifies her for he state meet.

The 17-year-old said this is the first time she has lost a shoe in a race.

She said she loves “track because of the rush you get when you run a personal best and feel every workout and practice pay off in that one moment crossing the finish line. The possibilities of getting faster or stronger are endless.”

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