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Boston Globe
6 days ago
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Boston 10K pro field to feature Boston Marathon champion Sharon Lokedi, American Olympians
'Winning the Boston Marathon is a highlight of my career so far,' said Lokedi in a release. 'I'm excited to return to Boston to race the 10K and relive the same feeling from the marathon.' Lokedi will be joined in the women's pro field by another Boston Marathon champion, Edna Kiplagat, as well as a pair of American Olympic marathoners, Providence College alum Emily Sisson and 2024 US Olympic Marathon Trials winner Fiona O'Keeffe. Advertisement American Olympians Emily Sisson (left) and Fiona O'Keeffe (center) will race the Boston 10K this month. Mike Ehrmann/Getty The stacked women's field also features 2024 New York City Marathon champion Sheila Chepkirui (who boasts the fastest personal best in the field at 29:46), as well as The women's wheelchair field will be led by four-time Boston Marathon and five-time Boston 10K champion Tatyanna McFadden. Two-time Boston Marathon champion Daniel Romanchuk will headline the men's wheelchair race. The men's professional field is loaded with depth, with Tanzania's Gabriel Geay — event winner in 2018 and 2023, as well as Boston Marathon runner-up in 2023 — among the biggest names on the start list. Joe Klecker, an Olympian over 10,000 meters in 2021, will lead the American charge. Kenya's Dennis Kitiyo has the fastest personal best in the field at 27:01. Advertisement 'The Boston 10K annually brings together some of the fastest and most competitive athletes from around the globe,' said Mary Kate Shea, the BAA's senior director of professional athletes. 'The Boston running community can expect fast times and thrilling races at this year's 10K across all divisions.' Around 10,000 athletes are expected to race on June 22, with the course winding through Cambridge and the Back Bay. The route begins on Charles Street and crosses the Longfellow Bridge for an out-and-back and Memorial Drive before crossing back over the Harvard Bridge on Massachusetts Avenue. Runners will then loop through Kenmore Square, make the right on Hereford and left onto Boylston, finishing between the Boston Common and Public Garden. Amin Touri can be reached at
Boston Globe
20-04-2025
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The most impressive finisher from Saturday's Boston 5K? Reilly Kiernan broke 20 minutes — while eight months pregnant.
Kiernan, a Jamaica Plain resident who runs for the Tracksmith Boston Hares racing team, isn't quite your average 5K fun-run competitor. She was an All-Ivy League runner at Princeton and continued running competitively after college, qualifying for the US Olympic Marathon Trials in 2020. Advertisement Kiernan was twice among the 50 fastest female finishers at the Boston Marathon, running 2:46:36 in 2021 and 2:49:33 in 2024, the latter coming just a year after she had her first child. 'This is my second pregnancy, and I was able to run healthily up to 24 hours out from giving birth to my son, and I did run a couple of races in that first pregnancy,' Kiernan explained. 'Just for fun, not all-out efforts, but just to still be part of the community and vibes and race day and mix it up a little bit. Having had that positive experience the last time, I thought I would try it again this time. 'The marathon weekend is such a fun running weekend in Boston, I've run the marathon [multiple times], I ran last year. I thought it would be fun to still be part of the fanfare and good vibes of marathon weekend but in a shorter, more-appopriate-to-being-eight-months-pregnant kind of way.' Advertisement Reilly Kiernan was 35 weeks pregnant when she finished sixth in her age group in the Boston 5K. Courtesy of Reilly Kiernan Thanks to the pregnancy deferral program, Kiernan was able to defer her Boston Marathon entry to 2026, where she hopes to back running the full distance from Hopkinton to Back Bay. Kiernan raced the BAA 5K in 2022, coming second in her age group in 16:40. Saturday's effort — still quick for many — was a little less serious and a little more fun, considering her due date for her second child (a girl this time) is May 25, putting her just five weeks out when she toed the line Saturday. 'It definitely feels different, definitely no pressure, just doing it for fun and making sure I keep the effort under control,' she said. 'But I think the fun thing about the 5K is that it is that kind of kickoff to marathon weekend. Being in the crowd with people from all different countries, people who are using it as a tune-up for the race on Monday, or people who are just using it in the same way that I did, to be part of the celebration of the weekend, you can't help but get some of the positive energy and momentum of that.' Amin Touri can be reached at
Boston Globe
07-04-2025
- Sport
- Boston Globe
Keira D'Amato, marathoning's unlikely star, leads a stacked Boston field of American women
'I don't think there's too many pros in the field that have failed to qualify on their first try‚" D'Amato joked last week. Advertisement After signing her husband up for the 2017 Shamrock Marathon as a little gag gift for Christmas, D'Amato, then 32, decided to sign herself up too. She finished in a respectable 3:14. It was enough to spark a return to serious competition. D'Amato's rise from there was meteoric. By 35, she was racing at the US Olympic Marathon Trials. At 37, she ran a stunning 'This year is just unbelievably deep,' D'Amato told the Globe. 'I feel, yeah, definitely excited. Really just proud to be part of this wave, especially in female marathoning right now, and just to feel like I had a little hand, especially on the American side, pushing that bar a little bit forward. I feel really proud to be part of it.' Advertisement It's easy for even the most keen marathoning observers to forget that this is D'Amato's second time in Boston, as her first in 2018 was, fittingly, so unusual. That 3:14 Shamrock in 2017 was followed by a 2:47 in Richmond that year, enough — with a little of what D'Amato half-jokingly calls 'begging' — to earn a spot starting with the pro women. She paid her own way, handled her own lodging, then braved 'Boston is what brought me into the marathon,' D'Amato said. 'If not for the Boston Marathon and the stories of the Boston Marathon, I may have never even attempted to run a marathon. 'So it's so special to me to be coming back now, and not as someone who, before, I registered myself, paid for my own flight. That's normal, and everyone does that, but now it feels like such a privilege and a gift that they've invited me to come, they've helped me with travel arrangement. It's surreal that I've gotten to experience both sides.' Related : D'Amato is among the favorites to be the top American woman on Patriots' Day, but she's got plenty of competition. The group features 11 women with personal bests faster than 2 hours, 25 minutes. It includes Dakotah Popehn , a US Olympian in Paris last summer; and Advertisement D'Amato, Hall, and Linden are part of a particularly special group who continue to compete at an elite level after their 40th birthdays. 'There's a whole pack of women that are still crushing at a really high level‚" D'Amato said. 'I don't think we're the outliers. I'm really proud to be part of the group that is pushing that forward. 'I get messages, like, daily from people saying, 'Oh, I'm in my late 30s, and I thought, you know, my best days were behind me, and then I saw you, and you gave me permission to go after it again.' And that is a really powerful thing to hear.' As impressive a résumé as D'Amato has built over the last few years, she is coming off a disappointing 2024. She was a favorite to make the Olympic team for Paris, but struggled at the Olympic Trials and dropped out at mile 20. She moved to Utah in the lead-up to the 2024 Chicago Marathon, training under coach Ed Eyestone and alongside top American men Clayton Young and Conner Mantz . That race was even more frustrating, with D'Amato suffering a foot injury and dropping out after the 10K mark. D'Amato said she's been pleased with her progress in a somewhat compressed build into Boston, her second under Eyestone. However it pans out, she's already accomplished more than she ever could have imagined. Advertisement 'At the end of that race in 2018 if you would have said, like, predict your wildest dreams for yourself and running, [they] would have fell well short of where I'm at right now,' D'Amato said. 'When you zoom out and think about it that way ... I'm so grateful, I'm so thankful.' Fields for 5K, pro mile The BAA will stage its annual 5K and pro mile on marathon weekend, with the races taking place on Saturday, April 19. The 5K will cover a new route and finish at the Marathon finish line on Boylston Street, rather than back where it started at the Common. The 5K fields are headlined by top-ranked American road racer Biya Simbassa on the men's side and 2022 3000-meter steeplechase world champion Norah Jeruto in the women's race. Reigning wheelchair division champions Amin Touri can be reached at
