Kosimbei completed in 45 minutes and 15 seconds, tying the course file set by fellow Kenyan Allan Kiprono in 2012. It was Kosimbei’s first Cherry Blossom run and his first profession 10-mile run. He took an early lead however mentioned he needed to push himself via fatigue within the ninth mile.
“I was a bit tired, but I pushed, I tried,” Kosimbei mentioned.
“Very happy with the performance, we came and got the job done,” Kosimbei’s coach and agent, Antony Scott, mentioned. “There’s some more work to do in training and we look forward to coming back in 2023 for an attempt at a faster course record”
Behind Kosimbei: Wilfred Kimitei (45:43) and Shadrack Kimining (45:48) rounded out the all-Kenyan high three. Americans Futsum Zienasellassie (46:53) and Reid Buchanan (46:57) positioned fourth and fifth. The subsequent 5 finishers had been all additionally American.
On the ladies’s facet, Reston, Virginia’s Susanna Sullivan (52:32) turned the primary native runner since Baltimore’s Eleanor Simonsick in 1983 to win the ladies’s 10-mile race. Sullivan broke away from a pack of runners through the center of the race and maintained her benefit the remainder of the best way.
“I felt like I was putting some distance on them,” Sullivan mentioned. “I can tell … that I was accelerating a little, which surprised me. … In the last mile … it seemed like the energy was really picking up and I couldn’t tell if that was just because I was leading or I was being closed on.”
Sullivan has now completed this race seven occasions since 2013, however Sunday was her first end above eighth place. The fifth-grade trainer at Fairfax County’s Haycock Elementary faculty famous that the Cherry Blossom race is without doubt one of the few achievements in her working profession that’ll have an effect on her college students.
“It’s huge, everyone knows [what] the Cherry Blossom is,” Sullivan mentioned. “A lot of my time, my running means nothing to my kids … they don’t really get it, but a lot of their parents run this … so if I tell them I won Cherry Blossom that will mean something.”
Carrie Verdon (52:37), Paige Stoner (52:38), Sarah Pagano (52:46), and Kim Conley (53:40), made up the remainder of the ladies’s high 5. All 10 of the highest feminine racers had been American.