Lineth Chepkurui made it two in a row in the women’s race, while third time was a charm for John Yuda in the men’s competition, as the two stars outraced outstanding fields to win the 33rd edition of the Lilac Bloomsday Run.
A field of 51,258 signed up for this year’s Bloomsday Run, an increase of nearly 4,000 over last year. Runners were greeted with chilly conditions for the race start, with the temperature at 45 degrees and a slight breeze out of the southwest, but it didn’t take long for Chepkurui to heat things up. A pack of nearly 20 stayed with her through the first mile-and-a-half, but then the pack began to thin as the runners headed up the first hill. By the third mile Chepkurui had begun to gap most of the talented pack except for Ethiopian Teyba Erkesso, who hung on gamely to the bottom of Doomsday Hill, the final ascent on the course.
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