Ruth Chepngetich set a hot pace from the gun, putting 45 seconds on the rest of the field at the 5K split.
: 1:05:44, to Kosgei’s 1:06:59. She covered 35K to 40K in 16:37, a 5:21 pace—still on target for a 2:14 finish.
Though she couldn’t quite hold on, the time improved significantly upon her previous personal best of 2:17:08, run in Dubai in 2017. “In everything, you have to try your best,” she said afterward. “So for today, I'm happy.”Chepngetich led from mile 1 to the finish—by 5K, she’d put 45 seconds on Ethiopia’s Ruti Aga Sora. At the halfway point, she was already 3:42 ahead of the chase pack, which at that point included AmericanNot having a pack didn’t faze her.
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