B.A.A. HALF MARATHON ELITE FIELD RELEASED
By Chris Lotsbom
(c) Race Results Weekly, all rights reserved - used with permission
(05-Oct)
-- The tenth edition of the B.A.A. Half-Marathon will host a small yet
talented group of elite athletes for Boston's largest 13.1 mile (21.1
km) race on Sunday. Both the men's and women's fields are highlighted
by a number of Kenyans who will be making their Boston debuts.
On
the men's side, Allan Kiprono will try to continue his successful 2010
season. One of the newest Kenyans to make his mark on the elite road
racing scene, the 20 year-old Kiprono has won the Run Gloucester!
7-Mile Road Race, placed second at the TD Bank Beach to Beacon Road
Race in Maine, and finished tenth at the CIGNA Falmouth Road Race.
Kiprono passed through the half-marathon checkpoint at the BIG 25-K in
Berlin last May in 1:02:38.
Joining him on the starting line in
Boston's Franklin Park will be Julius Kogo. Kogo is also coming off a
productive summer, winning and setting a new course record at the News
and Sentinel Half-Marathon in West Virginia, and taking the top spot at
the Crim Festival of Races 10 Mile race in Michigan. Kogo, who was
originally brought to the United States by the Westchester Track Club,
has a personal best half-marathon time of 1:02:20.
Also of
Kenya is John Korir, who has the fastest personal best in the field, a
1:00:47 performance in Milan in 2004. Korir's best performances of the
year have been a pair of fourth place finishes at the Credit Union
Cherry Blossom 10-Mile and the Lilac Bloomsday Run.
Headlining
the women's field is Caroline Rotich, also of Kenya. Coming off of a
sixth place finish in the ING Rock 'n' Roll Philadelphia Half-Marathon,
where she ran 1:10:24, Rotich will be racing in preparation for next
month's ING New York City Marathon. Janet Cherobon, who boasts a
personal best of 1:10:59, and Jane Kibii are also entered in the race.
This
year's B.A.A. Half-Marathon will cover a new course which starts and
finishes in Franklin Park and follows the city's "Emerald Necklace"
park system. The race finishes on the track in White Stadium.
ENDS