The Double Road Race™ Indy was the event, Julius Koskei and Lyudmila Stepanova provided the dramatics, as they each shattered the existing world records in the Indianapolis Double August 11.
Julius Koskei of Kenya, now living and training in Hebron, Ky., ran an aggregate time of 44:31:09 for the 10K and 5K of the Double, breaking the previous men’s world record of 45:15:05 set by Tyler McCandless in the Overland Park Double on June 30 by almost 45 seconds!
Koskei, who’s 31 and a full-time professional runner, ran the 10K in 29:48 and the 5K in 14:43. Tyler McCandless had run the 10K in 30:16:50 and the 5k in 14:58:55.
Lyudmila Stepanova, a 29-year-old Russian runner also living and training in Hebron, Ky., bettered the women’s world record for the Double, posting an aggregate time of 52:38:06. The previous world record of 53:13:04 had been set by Molly Pritz in Overland Park.