It is a launch on my favorites, the Mainova Frankfurt Marathon.
I visited this glorious German metropolis and marathon for nearly a decade, courtesy of meet administration.
I liked the race! The expo and race gave me a yearly replace on the well being of German street racing. The expo was fairly enjoyable.
German street operating was a glance again at US street operating within the Nineteen Seventies when runners have been a bit extra extreme and would race wherever.
Germany and France have many path races with many elevation modifications. I additionally loved seeing some manufacturers nonetheless needing a presence in North America.
The presser was all the time enjoyable. There could be some German athletes and an opportunity to interview Ethiopian and Kenyan athletes through translators.
The race, by the traditional streets of outdated Frankfurt (relationship again to the Center Ages), takes runners by the monetary capital of Europe. I loved watching the race, masking the occasion, and watching finishers from exterior the Movenpick Lodge.
I’ll miss seeing my outdated German associates and the various great race volunteers this 12 months. If you wish to race a marathon in Germany, please take into account the Frankfurt Marathon.
Because the race returns to vitality after the pandemic, the Mainova Frankfurt Marathon is constructing its numbers once more and may have a improbable race. RunBlogRun will present protection on Sunday, October 27, 2024.
Mainova Frankfurt Marathon on Sunday:
Elisha Rotich and Yeshi Chekole head robust elite fields in Frankfurt
Elisha Rotich of Kenya and Ethiopia’s Yeshi Chekole head the elite subject of the Mainova Frankfurt Marathon subsequent Sunday. Rotich has a private finest of two:04:21, whereas Chekole’s document stands at 2:21:17. Greater than 14,000 marathon runners have entered the Mainova Frankfurt Marathon, a World Athletics Elite Label Highway Race.
A variety of athletes needed to cancel their begins lately attributable to harm or visa issues. Amongst them are Ethiopians Herpasa Negasa and Tigist Abayechew and Kenyan Eric Kiptanui. The boys’s begin listing now options 4 runners with private bests of sub 2:07:00 and one other ten who’ve run beneath 2:10:00.
Whereas the main males will in all probability run at a 2:05 tempo, and organizers hope {that a} successful time barely beneath that mark is perhaps potential, the ladies might produce the spotlight on the forty first version of Germany’s oldest metropolis marathon. They’re anticipated to assault Valary Aiyabei’s course document. The Kenyan ran 2:19:10 in 2019. 5 ladies entered the race, that includes private bests of sub 2:23:00. Ethiopia’s Hawi Feiysa may need finished very nicely. She at the moment has a PB of two:23:36. However her half marathon time of 65:41 means that she ought to have the ability to run a lot sooner. Moreover, Hawi Feiysa ran an excellent race on the World Cross Nation Championships in Bathurst, Australia, final 12 months when she positioned sixth.
Tom Thurley and Laura Hottenrott lead the home problem in Frankfurt. Thurley was second on this 12 months’s nationwide championships with 2:14:52, and Hottenrott ran 2:24:32 in Valencia a 12 months in the past. She competed within the Olympic marathon in Paris and completed thirty eighth.
Elite runners with private bests
MEN
Elisha Rotich KEN 2:04:21
Lencho Tesfaye ETH 2:06:18
Aychew Bantie ETH 2:06:23
Birhan Nebebew ETH 2:06:52
Gossa Challa ETH 2:07:43
Workneh Serbessa ETH 2:07:58
Abdelaziz Merzougui ESP 2:08:00
Gerba Dibaba ETH 2:08:25
Jake Robertson NZL 2:08:26
Belay Bezabeh ETH 2:08:58
Ebba Chala SWE 2:09:06
Reuben Narry KEN 2:09:06
Bernard Muia KEN 2:09:17
Vincent Ronoh KEN 2:09:21
Tom Thurley GER 2:14:52
Jonathan Dahlke GER 2:15:42
Jan Lukas Becker GER Debüt
WOMEN
Yeshi Chekole ETH 2:21:17
Shuko Genemo ETH 2:21:35
Magdalyne Masai KEN 2:22:16
Kidsan Alema ETH 2:22:28
Meseret Dinke ETH 2:22:52
Betty Chepkwony KEN 2:23:02
Agnes Keino KEN 2:23:26
Hawi Feiysa ETH 2:23:36
Linet Masai KEN 2:23:46
Laura Hottenrott GER 2:24:32
Tadelech Nedi ETH 2:26:23
Georgina Schwiening GBR 2:26:28
Aberash Korsa ETH 2:29:04
Additional info and on-line registration is on the market at: www.frankfurt-marathon.com