Lineth successfully defended her Cherry Blossom 10 Mile Run title Sunday in Washington, D.C. She ran 53:32, a full 23 seconds up on 2nd-placer Belaynesh Gebre and nearly a minute faster than her winning time from last year.
The past week has been pretty good to Lineth: on March 28th, she ran what is arguably the best race so far of her young career to finish fourth at the world cross country championships in Amman, Jordan before heading back to Kenya and then to Washington. (You can check out results from Amman here; Lineth was only a few seconds out of the bronze medal position but helped Kenya to a dominating win over Ethiopia in the women’s senior race.) After a weather-related flight delay in Nairobi, Lineth arrived late to the United States and hardly slept Saturday night. It didn’t seem to matter. Women’s results are here.
Jason Hartman’s 48:03 was good for 14th place and first American honors. He also wins a trip to the Himeji Castle 10 Mile Race in Japan. The Washington Post has a good recap of the race, and here are men’s results.
