After a busy summer season on the observe that noticed him win his second consecutive nationwide title within the 1,500m and make his Olympic debut for Staff Canada in Paris, Vancouver’s Kieran Lumb shouldn’t be able to name it a season simply but. The 26-year-old is ready to step up in distance, making his half-marathon debut on the B.A.A. Half on Sunday, Nov. 10 in Boston.
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Lumb can be one in every of 5 Canadian males within the elite area, becoming a member of Olympic teammates Ben Flanagan and Thomas Fafard, together with Hamilton’s Max Turek (who just lately paced Natasha Wodak to her 2024 Canadian marathon title), and Boston-based Canadian marathoner Thomas Toth.
The half marathon is 14 instances longer than Lumb’s regular 1,500m occasion, however he’s embracing the problem. “My coach and I needed to attempt one thing completely different this fall and emphasize power,” Lumb instructed Canadian Working. “It’s been refreshing to combine issues up.”
Lumb has been coaching at altitude in Park Metropolis, Utah, for the previous few weeks—one thing he hasn’t been capable of do since turning skilled in 2023.
Previously two years, Lumb has represented Staff Canada within the males’s 1,500m on the 2024 Olympic Video games and the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest, although he didn’t advance previous the heats at both occasion. Earlier this yr, he reached the boys’s 1,500m closing on the 2024 World Indoor Championships in Glasgow, ending thirteenth.
He has had success on the roads thus far in his profession, putting fifth within the males’s highway mile on the inaugural World Highway Working Championships in Riga, Latvia final October.
Lumb says he’s excited to compete towards Flanagan and Fafard, two athletes he hardly ever faces. Flanagan, a former Canadian half-marathon document holder, briefly held the accolade in 2022 after operating 61 minutes on the Valencia Half Marathon. Flanagan’s document was surpassed by Cam Levins on the Vancouver First Half in February 2023, with Levins’ time of 60:18 nonetheless standing as the highest Canadian mark.
The scenic Boston Half course winds by town’s Emerald Necklace Park System, passing landmarks such because the Arnold Arboretum, Jamaica Pond and Franklin Park Zoo. The end line is in Franklin Park, simply south of town.
This yr’s race won’t characteristic any Canadian feminine elites. For a whole listing of the boys’s and girls’s elite fields, go to right here.