4th place for Gwen Jorgensen in U.S. Half Marathon Championships

1:10:58 for Olympic Triathlon Champion over the Half Marathon in Pittsburgh

When I highlighted Gwen’s participation in the U.S. Half Marathon Championships a week or so back, I said of her prospects in terms of time, “perhaps in the 1:10 to 1:11 range would be my current estimate”. With a 1:10:58 over what was a ‘lumpy’ course in Pittsburgh on Sunday, that proved to be right on the money.

Fourth place will have earned a $3,000 cheque (plus a further bonus for a Sub 1:11 finish), though as she reveals in her post-race video, she was a little disappointed with her result.

In her ‘post-triathlon’ running career, Gwen has now run three races:

• 5,000m indoors – 15:15.64 – MORE HERE
• 10,000m outdoors – 31:55.68 – MORE HERE
• Half Marathon – 1:10:58

How does that time stack up? Well, in 2016 Gwen finished third in the U.S. 10-mile Championships in 53:13, a time which applying most conversion factors out there would predict almost exactly the time that Gwen ran on Sunday. Interestingly, Sara Hall – second – was 20 seconds behind Gwen at that 10-mile event.

Hall is the reigning U.S. Marathon Champion, and has a personal best of 2:27:41 set in Frankfurt last year.

Overall? Solid – but more work to do and improvements to be made – which is consistent with Gwen’s post-race assessment of her own performance. The journey continues.

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U.S. Half Marathon Championships, Pittsburgh, Sunday 6th May 2018

ELITE WOMEN

1st – Aliphine Tuliamuk – 1:10:04
2nd – Sara Hall – 1:10:07
3rd – Rochelle Kanuho – 1:10:49
4th – Gwen Jorgensen – 1:10:58
5th – Carrie Dimoff – 1:11:51

ELITE MEN

1st – Chris Derrick – 1:02:37
2nd – Parker Stinson – 1:02:38
3rd – Andrew Colley – 1:02:40
4th – Samuel Kosgei – 1:03:13
5th – Leonard Korir – 1:03:24