2019 Milano Marathon Diary: The 2019 Generali Milano Marathon course video

The Generali Milan Marathon will have 24,000 runners on Sunday, April 7. There will be about 9000 marathoners and 16,000 relay runners on Sunday. Add to that, 11,000 kids on Saturday and 100 dogs and their owners on Friday night, and you have a healthy 37,000 in the city of Milan this weekend, making the Generali Milan Marathon the 4th largest marathon in Italy.

The Milan Marathon began in 2000, and had a field of two thousand in its first year, and after a few different dates, has settled on early April. Th early April date has proved rmost popular, as the field has grown, year after year, for several years now.

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The fields who run the cobble stoned streets of central Milano will be lead by fast men and women from the global sport that is running. The men’s field is lead by Samuel Kosgei Kiplimo (2:06.53), Samuel Wanjiku (2:07:04), Edwin Koech (2:07.13) and Titus Ekiru (PB 2:07.43). The women’s race features Vivian Kiplagat, Wude Yime, Kasahun Aynalem, Doris Changewyo, and Joan Kigen.

Will we see course records? The men’s is 2:07.12 and the women’s is 2:24.59. I am getting some info that the course records are the goals.

On Saturday, @runblogrun will be at the Childrens’ races at 9.30 AM and the Elite athlete intro at 11 am.

Check out the course so you can see how the marathon showcases the city of Milan.

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Larry Eder

Larry Eder has had a 52-year involvement in the sport of athletics. Larry has experienced the sport as an athlete, coach, magazine publisher, and now, journalist and blogger. His first article, on Don Bowden, America's first sub-4 minute miler, was published in RW in 1983. Larry has published several magazines on athletics, from American Athletics to the U.S. version of Spikes magazine. He currently manages the content and marketing development of the RunningNetwork, The Shoe Addicts, and RunBlogRun. Of RunBlogRun, his daily pilgrimage with the sport, Larry says: "I have to admit, I love traveling to far away meets, writing about the sport I love, and the athletes I respect, for my readers at runblogrun.com, the most of anything I have ever done, except, maybe running itself." Also does some updates for BBC Sports at key events, which he truly enjoys.

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