After slogging it out for 13.1 miles two Kenyans tied for the win at the 31st Annual Indianapolis Mini Marathon. After reviewing both still pictures and video, race officials declared Kenyans Lamech Mokono and Valentine Orare winners and awarded them both the 1st place prize money. The pair came in first, in a time of 1:02:53, out of 35,000 entrants. (Indy Star article)

I’m having trouble finding a way to get a full list of results to see how many actually finished and if there is anybody from Minnesota who finished.

I know a lot of my friends from Anderson ran the race because it is part of the Anderson Road Runner’s Road Race Series. This is the first time since 2005 that I haven’t run the race so it is a little weird to be reporting on it. I’ve enjoyed running it and being able to run on the Brickyard but have never performed well there! Here is a race review from blogging buddy Joe.

Let’s hope that the Indy 500 race doesn’t end in a tie in a few weeks!

Updated 5-5

Organizers announced today that there were 30,225 finishers, the most in the 32-year history of the nation’s largest 13.1-mile race.

[tags] Indy Mini, Half-Marathon, Indianapolis [/tags]