I assume you mean no sub 2:10 Americans on an IAAF cert course this year? The fact fo the matter is 2:10 is not "the same as 2:15" because here in 'merica if you run 2:10 you could very well make the Olympic Team whereas 2:15 might not get one top 20-30 at the Trials. That is the difference.
Goucher Needles wrote:
Two things to point out: 1) Jim just ran both a 1:04 half and the 5:48 pace for 50 miles. This has never been done before in. What he could or might do is unpredictable given his diverse abilities. 2) Let’s say he runs 2:10, 2:11, 2:13, or 2:15. These are all the same. Any of those times put you approximately 2-3 miles behind the best in the world at the finish line. A guy who runs 2:15 is about as fast as a guy who runs 2:10. Neither are competitive internationally. More than a hundred men have run faster than 2:10 thus far in 2019 already. Zero Americans. 2:10 is closer to the best women in the world than it is to the best men. My point is that we should be pretending like it matters who runs 2:11:30.