ScottEvil wrote:
what about road races? I thought Ben True's victory at healthy kidney this summer was pretty good. He beat Kipsand and Mutai, admittedly at off-distances.
If we are looking at American men winning track races amidst top competition or very close to it, it's either Rupp at the 2014 pre 10k. It looks like Hall didn't have great competition at the 2007 Houston Half where he broke an hour, but that was a pretty good time.
Certainly the Healthy Kidney 10k cannot be considered "a big international long distance event", the 5th placer was 29:14 for God's sake. I know they describe it as an "elite-level" field, but get serious.
The Houston Half-Marathon is the same thing, every year.