RAK Half is tonight (10 pm ET). Will the WRs go down? 30:30 and 27:45 are requested paces. Official Discussion Thread.

Alberto Stretti has emailed with lots of details from the tehcnical meeting. The women's pacer is Geoffrey Pyego. Goal is 1515, 3030, 4545. Men's pacer is Kipkirui Langat. Goal is 1350-55. 2740-50.

Here is a full list of elite entrants.

Men

Bib Last Name* First Name* Bib Name Country PB - 21K

2 LAKEW MULE WASIHUN WASIHUN ETHIOPIA 59.34

4 WANDERS JULIEN WANDERS SWITZERLAND 59.13

6 BERTA ANDAMLAK BELIHU BELIHU ETHIOPIA 59.10

7 MUNYAO ALEXANDER MUTISO MUNYAO KENYA 59.09

8 WELDESLASSIE SOLOMON BERIHU BERIHU ETHIOPIA 59.17

9 TADESE AMDEWORK WALELEGN WALELEGN ETHIOPIA 59.22

10 KIPTOO EDWIN KIPROP KIPTOO KENYA 59.26

11 KANDIE KIBIWOTT KANDIE KENYA 59.31

12 RAIMOI VINCENT KIBOR RAIMOI KENYA 60.10

13 MANDE ABDALLAH KIBET MANDE UGANDA 60.14

14 ALEM ENYEW MEKKONEN MEKKONEN ETHIOPIA 61.14

15 ROTICH MAXWELL KORTEK ROTICH UGANDA 61.11

16 N'GAN'GA JOSEPH KARANJA N'GAN'GA KENYA 61.14

17 IGUIDER ABDELAATI IGUIDER MOROCCO DEBUTANT

18 BARSOTON LEONARD BARSOTON KENYA 59.09

19 TOLOSA MLKESA MENGESHA MENGESHA ETHIOPIA 61.46

20 BARKACH ALFRED CHELAL BARKACH KENYA 59.46

21 GEAY GABRIEL GERALD GEAY TANZANIA 59.42

41 SIKUBWABO YIVES - CANADA 65.39

42 WELDEAREGAYE LEMAWORK KETEMA - AUSTRIA 63.50

43 HERZOG PETER - AUSTRIA 63.22

44 KEBENEI SHADRACK - KENYA

45 OUMOUSSA ZOUHAIR - FRANCE

46 KIMUTAI WILY NGETICH - KENYA

47 WILLIAMS MATTHEW KEENEY - USA 63.57

81 LANGAT WELDON KIPKIRUI PACE M1 KENYA

82 BOGALE NIBRET MELAK PACE M2 ETHIOPIA

83 PYEGO GEOFFREY KIPSANG PACE F1 KENYA

84 GATHERU DANIEL NDIRITU PACE F2 KENYA

85 KIMUNYAN GILBERT KIPKORIR PACE M3 KENYA

Women

Bib Last Name * First Name * Bib Name Country PB - 21K

101 KOSGEI BRIGID JEPCHIRCHIR BRIGID KENYA 65.28 /64.28*

102 CHEMUTAI FANCY FANCY KENYA 64.52

103 MELLY JOAN CHELIMO JOAN KENYA 65.04

104 JEPCHIRCHIR PERES PERES KENYA 65.06

105 KEBEDE NETSANET GUDETA NETSANET ETHIOPIA 65.45

106 BRIHANE ABABEL YESHANEH ABABEL ETHIOPIA 65.46

107 CHIRCHIR EVALINE EVALINE KENYA 66.22

109 KIPLAGAT VIVIAN JERONO VIVIAN KENYA 66.55

110 MONICAH ROSEMARY WANJIRU ROSEMARY KENYA DEBUT

112 ASIRES DEGITU AZIMERAW DEGITU ETHIOPIA 66.07

113 DENSA YALEMZERF YELAHUN YALEMZERF ETHIOPIA 66.01

114 KEJETA MELAT YISAK MELAT GERMANY 68.41

141 NARE TADU TESHOME - ETHIOPIA 70.21

142 STEYN GERDA GERDA SOUTHAFRICA 71.54

143 SANDELL ANNEMARI - FINLAND 70.04

144 SHAURI MAGDALENA CRISPIN - TANZANIA 74.57

145 RICHARDSSON CAMILLA - FINLAND 75.34

Interview with Federico Rosa who made the elite fields of this years race: https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1825779564218994&id=578871805576449

We are in RAK, all infos (in french but translatable) + livestream link Here https://www.athle.ch/2020/02/20/preview-jusquou-wanders-peut-il-encore-repousser-les-limites-a-ras-al-khaimah/

Here are streams according to Stretti.

Note: Both links will be geoblocked in MiddleEast, North Africa , SouthAmerica and Italy.

https://watch.endurancesports.tv/endurance-events-live-replay/videos/ras-al-khalmah-half-marathon

https://www.olympicchannel.com/en/events/detail/2020-athletics-ras-al-khaimah-half-marathon-ras-al-khaima/

Live results will be here:

https://www.therakhalfmarathon.com/leaderboard/

If the world record goes down it's because of vaporfly's, if it doesn't then there's some other excuse for why times weren't as fast like a long course, or bad weather. Is this right?

But actually the weather looks a little warm. The low is still 64 degrees, starting to be on the warm side for a half marathon. Could be even warmer.

143 SANDELL ANNEMARI - FINLAND 70.04

Now that's a real blast from the past...

the times above don't look right to me.

Right now it's 11:15am PT, and the race page says it's in 16h 45m.

So that would put it at 7am ET Friday 2/21.

I think the countdown timer on the page is wrong.

Race is 7am ET local time = 7pm PT = 10PT ET. I'm a moron.

eh... world record?

who in that entry list could even remotely run 58.00?

not even in perfect conditions. and it will be little too warm.

My God, somebody in Kenya named their kid Weldon.

I don't suppose there is actually a chance it could be after our Weldon. He did train there for a while didn't he? Any chance his fro has red highlights??

I forgot that Kamworor had destroyed even the doper Kiptum's provisional wr with 58:01.

The scheduled pacers are to go well behind that pace, which is maybe a shade under 27:30/10k.

rojo wrote:

Here are streams according to Stretti.

Good thing there are real journalists following the sport out there, instead of you, posting other people's articles.

How much does Brigid carve off the WR? As I have posted elsewhere: only doesn’t happen if she is not serious, i.e., importance of the next event overrides the possible detrimental effect the effort of winning brings.

dfgrdtgsh wrote:

rojo wrote:

Here are streams according to Stretti.

Good thing there are real journalists following the sport out there, instead of you, posting other people's articles.

Would you just shut up.

2:44/km!! 1 minute until start.

Looks like the usual great stream and better than decent commentary. Weather?? - Looks warm. No 57 min. 1/2 today. They just pushed start back another 6 minutes

Iguider, on the start! Nothing above a 5K until now!! Wanders also on the start, first row.

Did they just false start? I know they brought them back the first time, but I think they STILL went early the second time!

Pacemaker#2 just took off like shot out of a cannon! Still way out there 3 min. in.

Jonathan Gault wrote:

Did they just false start? I know they brought them back the first time, but I think they STILL went early the second time!

I thought the same! But I do think it was just a delay in the sound of the announcer.