{"id":342,"date":"2016-03-14T14:14:45","date_gmt":"2016-03-14T18:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/03\/14\/the-fastest-furman-family\/"},"modified":"2022-11-06T20:59:43","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T01:59:43","slug":"the-fastest-furman-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/the-fastest-furman-family\/","title":{"rendered":"The fastest Furman family? Senior Erin Barker puts name back in record book"},"content":{"rendered":"

FEBRUARY 6, 2012
\nby Chloe Kowalski \u201912, Contributing Writer<\/p>\n

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Erin Barker ran the fastest mile in Furman women's history on Jan. 14 at the UNC-Chapel Hill indoor track.<\/p><\/div>\n

Heating up the track during the cold indoor season, Furman senior Erin Barker started off the year by running a 4:57.62-minute mile. Not only did she break Furman\u2019s school record for the women\u2019s mile by one second, but she also put the Barker name back on the board for the fastest mile time at Furman.<\/p>\n

\u201cI felt very much in control, really relaxed, and like I had some left at the end,\u201d Barker said when asked about how she felt during the 1609-meter race.<\/p>\n

Phil Barker, Erin\u2019s father, cheered his daughter on to the record\u00a0Jan. 14 at the stuffy UNC Chapel Hill indoor track. Over the years he has watched Erin compete many times, but he\u00a0is sure to have felt more than just a pang of pride witnessing his own flesh and blood beat the same school record that he himself broke for Furman\u2019s men in 1978.<\/p>\n

Phil set the Furman men\u2019s record for the mile, posting a time of four minutes and five seconds. It took 30 years for his time to be beaten, but now the Barker name is back on the board as the fastest in Furman history.<\/p>\n

Erin says she and her dad both love to race the mile\u00a0because \u201cit\u2019s quick, and it\u2019s not long enough to think very much.\u201d<\/p>\n

Then again, competing for Furman has long been a no-brainer for the entire Barker family. Erin\u2019s mother played tennis for the university, while her older sister, Lindsey, contributed four\u00a0years to Furman\u2019s running program herself.<\/p>\n

The record, though, was not set thanks to competitive genes alone; Erin claims that \u201chigh volume runs and longer workouts at our mile pace\u201d are the secret to her success. \u201cWe came back from Christmas and jumped into these quick, quick workouts rights away.\u201d<\/p>\n

As the Southern Conference\u00a0indoor track season\u00a0moves toward the final race, Erin has her sights set on another first-place win. Regardless of the outcome, you can be sure that her number-one fan, her\u00a0father, \u00a0will be at the track cheering her on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

FEBRUARY 6, 2012
\nby Chloe Kowalski \u201912, Contributing Writer<\/p>\n

Heating up the track during the cold indoor season, Furman senior Erin Barker started off the year by running a 4:57.62-minute mile. Not only did she break Furman\u2019s school record for the women\u2019s mile by one second, but she also put the Barker name back on the board for the fastest mile time at Furman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":343,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}