you can do better wrote:
garlicky tuna wrote:
He was never really at the top of his game. He chose races well enough to race against his fellow white folks for prize money.
You must be bitter malmo.
Here is the list of winners at Lilac Bloomsday from Sinclair's era. He was no Barrios or Ondieki, but the times stack up pretty well.
1993 Arturo Barrios Mexico 33 min 55 s
1992 Yobes Ondieki Kenya 33 min 55 s
1991 Steve Moneghetti Australia 34 min 52 s
1990 Germán Silva Mexico 34 min 42 s A
1989 John Halvorsen Norway 34 min 21 s
1988 Peter Koech Kenya 34 min 22 s
1987 Steve Binns United Kingdom 34 min 38 s
1986 Jon Sinclair United States Colorado 34 min 25 s
1985 Paul Davies-Hale United Kingdom 34 min 27 s
1984 Ibrahim Hussein Kenya 34 min 33 s
1983 Jon Sinclair United States Colorado 34 min 55
1982 Henry Rono Kenya 35 min 49 s
1981 Duncan McDonald United States California 35 min 34 s
1980 Mark Anderson United States Colorado 36 min 22 s
1979 Ric Rojas United States Colorado 37 min 07 s
1978 Bill Rodgers United States Massachusetts 37 min 07 s
1977 Frank Shorter United States Colorado 38 min 26 s
The lead-in sentence by garlicky tuna made me laugh and I thought exactly the same thing!