Vancouver Sun Run elites head to Victoria for Sunday’s TC10K
Victoria's Times Colonist 10K on Sunday morning features the Around the Bay 30K winner and top-three finishers from the Vancouver Sun Run (Photo: TC10K).
The second and third place finishers from last week’s Vancouver Sun Run will be back in action this Sunday at the Times Colonist 10K (TC10K).
Christopher Cheruiyot and Paul Kimugul lead an impressive field which includes former GoodLife Fitness Victoria Marathon champions Daniel Kipkeoch and Lamech Mokono. Defending women’s champion Jane Murage (pictured above) will be leading the women’s field.
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Cheruiyot’s second place finish was a personal best at the Sun Run. He ran 29:03, just 16 seconds shy of the TC10K course record. Kimugul ran 29:17 at the Sun Run and he holds a PB of 28:31. He’s a three-time champion of Hamilton’s Around the Bay 30K.
Both finished behind winner Eric Gillis at the Sun Run, the largest 10K in Canada.
Murage returns hoping to win the TC10K for the fourth year in a row. She holds a PB of 32:45, just 11 seconds off the course record. She came third at this year’s Sun Run in 33:26. She will face a challenge from American Lindsey Scherf, who finished fourth at last weekend’s Sun Run.
Canadian Lanni Marchant was the women’s winner at the Vancouver Sun Run on April 17.
In the Masters category, some of Victoria’s finest will be competing including beer miler Jim Finlayson and 2015 Vancouver Island race series winner Craig Odermatt. Six-time TC10K winner Lucy Smith says the race is one of her personal favourites and she will look to add another masters win.
More than 9,000 runners have registered for Sunday morning’s race. The TC10K begins in downtown Victoria at 8 a.m. PDT.
Edited from a press TC10K press release.
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