After a busy summer time on the monitor that noticed him win his second consecutive nationwide title within the 1,500m and make his Olympic debut for Workforce Canada in Paris, Vancouver’s Kieran Lumb will not be able to name it a season simply but. The 26-year-old is about to step up in distance, making his half-marathon debut on the B.A.A. Half on Sunday, Nov. 10 in Boston.
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Lumb will likely be one in every of 5 Canadian males within the elite subject, becoming a member of Olympic teammates Ben Flanagan and Thomas Fafard, together with Hamilton’s Max Turek (who not too long ago paced Natasha Wodak to her 2024 Canadian marathon title), and Boston-based Canadian marathoner Thomas Toth.
The half marathon is 14 occasions longer than Lumb’s traditional 1,500m occasion, however he’s embracing the problem. “My coach and I wished to strive one thing completely different this fall and emphasize energy,” Lumb informed Canadian Operating. “It’s been refreshing to combine issues up.”
Lumb has been coaching at altitude in Park Metropolis, Utah, for the previous few weeks—one thing he hasn’t been capable of do since turning skilled in 2023.
Prior to now two years, Lumb has represented Workforce Canada within the males’s 1,500m on the 2024 Olympic Video games and the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest, although he didn’t advance previous the heats at both occasion. Earlier this yr, he reached the boys’s 1,500m last on the 2024 World Indoor Championships in Glasgow, ending thirteenth.
He has had success on the roads to this point in his profession, putting fifth within the males’s highway mile on the inaugural World Highway Operating Championships in Riga, Latvia final October.
Lumb says he’s excited to compete in opposition to Flanagan and Fafard, two athletes he hardly ever faces. Flanagan, a former Canadian half-marathon report holder, briefly held the accolade in 2022 after working 61 minutes on the Valencia Half Marathon. Flanagan’s report was surpassed by Cam Levins on the Vancouver First Half in February 2023, with Levins’ time of 60:18 nonetheless standing as the highest Canadian mark.
The scenic Boston Half course winds by means of town’s Emerald Necklace Park System, passing landmarks such because the Arnold Arboretum, Jamaica Pond and Franklin Park Zoo. The end line is in Franklin Park, simply south of town.
This yr’s race won’t function any Canadian feminine elites. For an entire listing of the boys’s and ladies’s elite fields, go to right here.
