Andrew Lemoncello amazed by his performance at the BUPA Great Edinburgh 10k Run
Andrew Lemoncello, the 29-year-old athlete from Scotland, who specialises in long distance running and also appears in marathon competitions and 3000m steeplechase contests, has expressed his delight over his performance at the BUPA Great Edinburgh 10k Run.
The Scott, who is a potential winner of next year’s London Olympics, was also appreciative of the results produced by his Kenyan rivals, Martin Mathathi and Titus Mbishei, who marked new course records in the event.
Mathathi had also embarked on the course record of the Great North Run half marathon competition organised last month, and for marking his dominance here and covering the hilly course with a new time clocked, he hit the finishing line in twenty eight minutes
and three seconds. Mbishei, the defending champion of the event finished five seconds behind him.
While commenting upon the performance produced by the Kenyans, the Scot, who had won the junior gold medal while competing at the 2001 European Cross Country Championships and who finished for a seventh place in the event, said, “That’s very fast for the
course”.
The athlete, who had had the privilege of representing Great Britain at the World Championships in Athletics back in 2005 and 2007, and who had also led the East to a success in the Scottish Inter District Championships, while talking about his own fitness
level added, “I’m fitter than I thought I was. I didn’t run fast but I ran well considering how hard the course is and the fact I only started back training this week.”
As for other athletes, Freya Murray, the hope of the capital, could not contest as the girl had already made it clear that amid her hip and back injury, it will become difficult for her to line-up for the title this time.
However, her archrival, Charlotte Purdue from England took full advantage of the 28-year-old Scottish runner’s absence and managed to finish second on the podium for finishing 30 seconds behind Kenyan runner, Lucy Kaluu, who breasted the tape for crossing
the finishing line in thirty two minutes and twenty eight seconds.
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