#390 Chicago Marathon Pro Field Recap (Vinny Mauri for President)

So, uh, yeah, at the front, it was kinda interesting, like, all the three women that I thought would be, like, contending for the race, I think everyone knew it was gonna be Hawi Fayssa, Sharon Lokedi, Brigid Kosgei.

Um, very clearly, like, the ones that have had the most success in world majors, uh, previously, best PBs.

Um, and what was interesting is, like, uh, Hawi Fayssa and Brigid Kosgei had raced earlier this year in Tokyo.

Brigid Kosgei won Tokyo, uh, in 2:14, beating Hawi Fayssa.

But I think Hawi Fayssa was still the favorite going into this race.

She's younger.

I believe she actually won Chicago last year, which is, like, very important as well, so.

But the interesting factor here was Sharon Lokedi, because she's won Boston, she's won New York, but she hasn't really proven herself on a fast course yet, so I think it was, like, interesting that, just to kind of throw her in the mix with these two women that have had a lot of success on the, uh, flatter courses, for sure.

Did you see them at all out there?

Yeah, I saw the lead pack.

It looked like Sharon and, uh, Fayssa were going together for a huge part of the race, and our, obviously our boy JT was out there.

[lip smacks] Um, we just were able to see them at, like, mile 2:14, and then again at 22:24, because there's that turnaround where you go right, you know, in the last out-and-back of the race in the final four miles.

Yeah.

And, um, you know, there was a big pack together through 14.

They looked pretty smooth, and then it really did split off, like, later in the race, um, as those packs tend to do.

Yeah, yeah.

It, y- so, yeah, interesting, like I said, I think they each had their own pacer.

Brigid Kosgei's pacer went out, like, really fast through 10K.

She had, like, a bit of a gap on them, but they ended up joining up, I think, by halfway.

And, uh, Jacob was, like, Sharon's… I think Sharon had one other pacer, another guy, looked like a Kenyan guy in Under Armour kit.

So they kinda ha- all had their own pacers, but they were all, like, pretty much running the same pace for a lot of the race, uh, which I thought was funny.

I guess Jacob said there was kinda some mind games going on before the race.

They kept changing the pace they were requesting and stuff like that, and-

[chuckles]

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