The Lowertown Brewery Ottawa 10k field will include:
Men: G. Mutai, Merga, W. Kiprop, Tsegay
Women: Keitany, Caroline Kilel, Filomena Chepchirchir, Yebrqual Melese
The race includes a ‘gender competition’ with the elite women given a head start of roughly 4 minutes and a $4,000 bonus given to whomever crosses the finish line first.
Keitany’s personal best 10K of 30:45, eclipses Mutai’s best of 27:19 when the 4-minute bonus is taken into account.
Predictions??
Who cares, where is Ottawa anyway?
Head starts in an Elite race? This makes running into a Mickey Mouse sport. Having said that, I am going with Mutai FTW.
4 minutes sounds like a lot of a head stard. 3:00 seems better.
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It's a fast course, I say Merga takes it in 27:14.
Little known fact: Al Gore invented the 'head start'.
Pretty sure Trebek is from Sudbury. Went to Ottawa U, though.
It doesn't matter who wins, it's finishing that counts. I plan on running it and beating my pb of 57:35 so that I can brag about it on Facebook.
I'm going with Kiprop for the upset in 28 flat.
Mutai wins in 27:05 and takes the bonus too.
Track_Marathoner wrote:
4 minutes sounds like a lot of a head stard. 3:00 seems better.
In most of these "headstart"-type races, it seems that the race is set up so the winner will be a lady.
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i hate her
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