They didn’t coordinate beforehand, exactly, but they shared a goal: “We were all interested in having a good American day,” said top U.S. finisher Jacob Riley, 31, who finished ninth in 2:10:36.
ZoomX Vaporfly Next% shoes during the race. “I bought into the hype,” Riley said, though he noted he’s open to experimentation if any sponsors should come calling. Mock expressed similar sentiments: “There’s a lot of companies that are coming out with the same kind of idea now,” he said.
“I’d be interested to try some of those too.”Parker Stinson, meanwhile, runs in Saucony—making him one of the few elites in the field not to sport bright pink on their feet. He denied that puts him at a disadvantage, noting that he broke the American record in the 25K—the 1:13:48 he ran in May’s River Bank Run—in the brand.And today, those shoes carried him to a nearly four-minute personal best in the marathon. He finished 11th in 2:10:53. The moment served as validation for Stinson, 27, who’s known for starting out fast and fading before the finish. Now that he’s run the race his training indicated he was capable of, “I finally feel like an actual marathoner.”Dathan Ritzenhein , a three-time Olympian who was scheduled to run Chicago himself until injury forced him to drop out in September. “I want this 2:10 for myself so much, but a lot of times out there I really thought about how much Dathan's invested in this and all the time he's spent,” Stinson said, visibly emotional. “I wanted to see him at the finish line—I wanted that moment.” Bowerman Track Club standout Andrew Bumbalough, 32, also ran a personal-best 2:10:56, which earned him 12th place. Behind him, Brendan Gregg, 30, of Hansons-Brooks ran 2:11:38, almost a two-minute improvement on his previous personal best from the California International Marathon in 2018.—a fan favorite who trains with the Roots Running Project in Boulder—clocked 2:11:42, which improved the 29-year-old’s career best by five minutes. The improvements continued to pile up between 2:11 and 2:12. Atlanta Track Club standout Matthew McDonald ran 2:11:10, which beat his previous personal best by almost three minutes. He ran 2:14:07 at CIM in December 2018. Scott Smith, 33, of NAZ Elite notched a 53-second improvement when he finished 15th in 2:11:14. Wilkerson Given continued the momentum as well when he ran a four-minute personal best of 2:11:44, and Diego Estrada, a 2012 Olympian for Mexico, rounded out the sub-2:12 group with a personal best of 2:11:54. Not only was that nearly two minutes faster than his 2:13:56 previous best, set here in Chicago in 2016, the race went much smoother—that year, he tripped on a water bottle at 10K, then recovered and returned to the lead pack to place eighth overall and first American. One thing’s for certain, Stinson said: The men’s race for the U.S. Olympic Trials in February just got “a whole lot more interesting.”
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