Little-known Julius Kogo and Georgina Chepkurui on Sunday easily won the 6th Re-discover Nandi National Social Security Fund 10km road race in Kapsabet.
Kogo, who finished fourth at the 2010 Boston Half Marathon, broke away with his training mates Nelphat Sirma and Gilbert Kipkosgei at five-kilometre mark and blasting to victory in an impressive 27 minutes and 53.4 seconds.
“I could keep with the high pace since I had trained well. I simply used it to gauge my form ahead of the national cross-country trials next month in Nairobi,” said the 25-year-oldKogo who trains at the Ibrahim Hussein camp in Kapsabet.
Sirma, a pace setter at the Frankfurt Marathon last October, weighed in second (28:19.0) ahead of Madoka Half Marathon runner-up Kipkosgei (28:24.7). Francis Kimutai (28:32.1), Marius Kipserem (28:38.5) followed in that order.
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