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2018 RAK HALF WOMEN’S FIELD GREATEST EVER!

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February 4, 2018
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Jepkosgei_Joyciline1-RAK17.jpgJoyceline Jepkosgei, WR holder in half marathon, photo by Victah Sailer/PhotoRun.net

Repost February 4, 2018

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RunBlogRun is very excited to be visiting the RAK Half Marathon this coming week. The RAK half marathon has built a reputation for fantastic fields! The women’s field is, well amazing, with current World Record holders at the half marathon, past WR holders and current women’s only marathon WR holder.

Keitany_Mary1a-RAK17.jpgMary Keitany, WR holder, women’s only marathon, photo by Victah Sailer/ PhotoRun.net

RunBlogRun arrives on Feb 5 and will be providing live coverage from pressers, interviews with athletes and some video on FB, Instagram with our thoughts on the RAK event! I enjoy the releases from RAK because they are so geek! (We love geek, aka enthusiast).

Cheruiyot_Vivian-Frankfurt17.jpgVivian Cheriuyot, Frankfurt Marathon winner, photo by Victah Sailer/PhotoRun.net

The field is fascinating, from Joycilin Jepkosgei, to Mary Keitany to Vivian Cheruiyot to Gladys Cherono. Who will surprise? Only eight days to go!

Cherono_Gladys-RAK16.jpgGladys Cherono, RAK 2016, photo by Victah Sailer/PhotoRun.net

Check out @rakhalf as they are doing a great job on Instagram. Watch @runblogrun instagram for coverage all week!

RAK HALF WOMEN’S FIELD GREATEST EVER

Staying true to its reputation, the 12th edition of the RAK Half Marathon on Friday 9th February, will serve up a mouth-watering clash of established female superstar performers over the flat northern UAE circuit which has proven consistently through the last decade, the quickest half marathon course in the world. Headlining arguably the strongest field in history, will be world record holder Joyciline Jepkosgei, only third in RAK last year behind the 65:06 then world record of Peres Jepchirchir, with three-time RAK victor Mary Keitany returning at 36, herself second twelve months ago, and since last April, the women-only world record holder for the full marathon.

While Jepchirchir sits out the race this year – she became a mother last October and astonishingly and perhaps uniquely, it has emerged she was one month pregnant when she broke the world record in RAK – four of the fastest seven women in history will line up for the 6.45am start, with another seven sub-68 minute performers alongside them.

It was just 50 days after RAK 2017 and racing in Prague, that Jepkosgei improved the global mark, taking it to previously uncharted sub-65 minute territory, and then bettered that 64:52 clocking by one second in Valencia last October. For her part, Keitany runs for the fifth time and will follow a familiar and proven plan, as three times her RAK run has preceded one of her three titles in London. In 2011, she set a 65:50 world record in RAK, and then dipped under 2:20 for the full marathon for the first time in London, while in 2012 and last year, her RAK performance was the precursor to a top-spot in the English capital. Even last year, though beaten by Jepchirchir in RAK, the racing formula worked as ten weeks later she stormed to her historic 2:17.01 women-only mark ahead of RAK fifth placer Tirunesh Dibaba.

Fancy Chemutai, from relative obscurity, burst in to the spotlight in 2017 with a trio of stunning half marathons, culminating in her staggering 65:36 second place last September in Valencia, behind Jepkosgei’s world record. She is herself bullish of challenging the world mark in RAK and like Jepkosgei and Keitany, will arrive in the progressive Emirate with her own pacemaker. In contrast to the precocious and relatively inexperienced 23 year old Chemutai, Edith Chelimo is a seasoned campaigner, but rocked the road racing world at age 31 last October in Cardiff, when winning the city’s half marathon by almost five minutes in 65:53, itself over three minutes quicker than she’d managed in the previous seven years of racing.

Others to benefit from the likely perfect conditions of RAK, include 2014 Half Marathon world champion Gladys Cherono, still in fine fettle at 34 after her Berlin Marathon win last September. Third in 2012 in RAK and runner-up in 2016 with her best of 66:07, her track-to-marathon pedigree still demands enormous respect. Another in form athlete is Eunice Chumba of Bahrain, who arrives after an impressive brace of half marathon wins in 2017, including her 66:11 winning time in Copenhagen last September.

Mix in the likes of Joan Chelimo Melly, second in Copenhagen in 66:25, London-bound Brigid Kosgei, third in the Danish capital last September, along with Caroline Kipkirui, fresh from her best ever time of 66:48 for second in Houston on January 14th, and the legendary Vivian Cheruiyot, the 2016 Olympic 5,000m champion not even ranked in the RAK top ten, and you begin to realise how open this race might be.

Many competing in the race have medium-term plans carefully mapped out. Keitany, Cherono, Kosgei and Cheruiyot are all targeting the London Marathon ten weeks after RAK, while Jepkosgei and Chemutai will be teammates in Kenya’s squad in Valencia at the 24th March IAAF World Half Marathon Championships. Of the London bound quartet, Keitany has attracted the most recent attention, as her stated plan on April 22nd is to challenge, with male pacers, Paula Radcliffe’s mixed-race marathon world record of 2:15.25, an arrangement that she will also be able to enjoy on the roads of RAK.

The men’s field announced on Monday 22nd January, has been adjusted and strengthened. While last year’s RAK fourth placer Solomon Yego has pulled out with injury, both London-bound Stanley Biwott and Ghirmay Ghebreslassie have been added to the field. Biwott was runner-up in RAK in both 2013 and 2016, the earlier of those two runs producing his best of 58:56, making him the tenth fastest in history. His London record is similar with a pair of second places in 2014 & 2016; can he shake the “nearly man” tag in RAK this time round? Ghebreslassie is the 2015 IAAF World Marathon Champion and Rio Olympic fourth placer. Although he’s never broken 60 minutes, the combination of his aggressive racing style and the quick RAK circuit, could well make his UAE debut a sub-one hour experience.

21 Joyciline Jepkosgei (KEN) 64:51 (WR)
22 Mary Keitany (KEN) 65:13
23 Fancy Chemutai (KEN) 65:36
24 Edith Chelimo (KEN) 65:52
25 Gladys Cherono (KEN) 66:07
26 Eunice Chumba (BRN) 66:11
27 Joan Chelimo Melly (KEN) 66:25
28 Brigid Kosgei (KEN) 66:35
29 Caroline Kipkirui (KEN) 66:48
30 Lucy Cheruiyot (KEN) 67:23
31 Vivian Cheruiyot (KEN) 67:44
32 Naomi Jebet (KEN) 68:44
33 Helen Bekele Tola (ETH) 69:48
34 Degitu Azimeraw (ETH) Debut

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