I hoping to be back home by early afternoon on Saturday but in case I'm not, here's the streams for the weekend. By then I should be able to fill in some missing detail/links.
Hopefully I can add Sunday's Mexico City Marathon (WA Gold Label race) to the roster and maybe also the Hokkaido Marathon in Sapporo.
Saturday to Sunday
- Final 2 days of the World Championships (Budapest, HUN) - See the post above
- The Monument Mile Classic (Stirling, SCO, GBR) - WA Continental Tour Challenger meeting; Now that this is a Challenger meeting it has its strongest fields yet for the Elite races. Running the Women's race are Courtney Frerichs, Sara Lappalainen (nee Kuivisto), Erin Wallace, Yolanda Ngarambe & Anna Connor (USA) as well as youngsters like Sarah Calvert and Ava Lloyd. The Men's race includes Alex Botterill, Vincent Keter (KEN; 3:31.3 1500 PB recently), Kane Elliott, Sam Blake (GER), Santu Heikinnen (FIN) & Tom Dodd
- Giro delle Mura Città di Feltre (Feltre, ITA) - International Men's 9.5km road race (9 laps of 1050m) & the "Running Seven Laps" elimination relay; There's no word yet on the fields for this but they're usually pretty good for both the Men's road race (another laps around the old town race!) and the "Running Seven Laps" race. Some past high-profile participants in the "Running Seven Laps" elimination relay won't be available (otherwise engaged in Budapest) but there's still enough decent Italians, Kenyans & Ugandans at home who might compete in it. This "Running Seven Laps" race is a really fun event - an elimination race with 9 or 10 relay teams of 2 pro mid-distance athletes (one M, one F). On each "lap" both members of the team run in relay up and down the hill (approx 500m loop course) ... Then, after each lap, the race stops, they eliminate the last team and then the remaining teams, having got some breath back, start again about a minute later. The seventh "lap" is the final lap where the race is won. Be aware, this stream is not available to watch on-demand
- Run Your City Tshwane 10k (Tshwane, RSA) - International road race; From the info out so far the Men's field features some top domestic athletes including Mashele & Galant whilst the Women's race is a bit more international including Docas Ajok (UGA) - remember her? Former 800m athlete - Debash Desta (ETH; 31:42 PB) and Neheng Khatala (LES; 32:06 PB) as well as home hopes Gerda Steyn & Glenrose Xaba
- Antrim Coast Half Marathon (Larne, NI, GBR) - WA Elite Label race; Both races are quite loaded. There's 8 sub-60 Men entered including Mateiko, Yimer, Legese & Nibret Melak. The lesser-spotted Callum Hawkins is also due to toe the start line. The head of the Women's race is less deep but still includes 4 women who've run faster than 66:10 including Genzebe Dibaba and Zeineba Yimer
The next major post will be on Tuesday 29th for the following day's Zürich Diamond League Women's Pole Vault in the Train Station as well as possibly a couple of other meetings and for Thursday's Zürich Diamond League itself.
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