NYC Half-Marathon, 20 March 2016

Near Perfect Set of Numbers for James

Perusing James Kelly's splits for his recent Half in the Big Apple, I salivated, purred, oohed and ahhed over this little collection of 5k nuggets:16:0216:0115:5715:58Delicious stuff from one of our leading stars of the 2007-2013 period, now based in New York, who we shall be seeing at the VLM next month.

However, it wasn't enough to stop JK getting himself "double-chicked" in the closing K as Molly Huddle and Joyce Chepkirui recorded amazing splits of:

16:42

16:09

15:27

15:48

They were still 8 seconds behind our man at 20k but then undercut James' 3:42 by said amount to appear as a tie in the results; although what's really strange is that Huddle and Chepkiriu's Net times as opposed to Gun times differ by 4 seconds.  How can that be when this controversial photo captured their finish?:

 Some wondered whether Molly had "Huddled" Joyce out of it.  But the Kenyan was magnanimous, and only said, "I am happy for my friend."