RAK HALF MARATHON LEADERBOARD

He needs to average 2:45.8 per k for the last 6k to match the WR. He slowed down but he's basically right on pace overall. A lot more women in WR range.

Imagine how fast Obiri would be without all that wasted movement

He split like 20s quicker than cheptegei's 15k WR

If he actually does maintain this, what a painful way to WR. Shows that a 56:xx is probably possible which is crazy

Even though Kiplimo is slowing down, his lead is actually growing because so many behind him also went out in 13:2x and are fading even more

No, totally false.

Slight correction, yeah he's a bit ahead of pace and needs 2:45.5 pace. So if he runs another 13:45-50 split from 15 to 20k he should be able to get it

Yeah disregard that

Style of commentary in Arabic is quite a bit different than what i'm used to. Very exicitable and they really stay away from any type of silence or dead air.

54:53 20K, WR is over. Kiplimo looks like he is running in slow motion, really hurting

Nice... he's about 20 seconds behind pace at 20K now but at least he got 1 world record out of the deal

57:50ish for Kiplimo. Still crazy to run sub 58 with 13:23 and 26:56 splits. Seems like the pacers did absolutely nothing in this race

Smart pacing to loose out on a huge WR money prize. He should go train with Ingebrigtsen

Great effort though - Kiplimo is awesome

Jeez, that's the painful way to run 57:56. Didn't see positive split his last HM/WR HM too? Wonder what we'd have seen if he stuck with the pacers. Still a monster run from him, someone said he crushed the 15k WR.

57:56 official, I guess the TV clock is off. The 15-20K split was a 14:10. Kwemoi in 2nd with 58:30, top 8 all under 60

I think Kiplimo could run like 26:20 this year at 10,000. Already at 26:33, would be fun to see him and cheptegei pushing the pace at worlds.

Obiri beaten by 0.02 sec.

Girmawit, the grim reaper's sister, sprints away from Obiri over the last 500m

Eilish McColgan breaks Paula's NR by 21 seconds. (1:06:26)

McColgan looks to have taken Paula's NR in 66:26 for 6th