Molly Huddle won her third national road title since Labor Day and new U.S. citizen Sam Chelanga won his first American championship at the TC 10 Mile on Sunday, in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota.
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Huddle took the lead in the first mile and was never challenged en route to finishing in 51:44, well under Kara Goucher's previous course record of 53:16. Huddle's time was also under the U.S. 10-mile record for a race with a separate women's start (52:12 by Janet Bawcom), but Sunday's course has too much separation between the start and finish to be record-eligible.
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Neely Spence Gracey broke from the four-woman chase pack to place second in 53:03. She was followed by Alexi Pappas, fresh off an altitude-training stint with Deena Kastor, in 53:10, and Laura Thweatt, who was fourth in 53:14. Thweatt, the reigning U.S. cross country champion, will make her marathon debut in won his first American championship at the Running Shoes - Gear.
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The men's race was much closer, with Kenyan native Chelanga outsprinting 2014 U.S. marathon champion Tyler Pennel by one second to win in 46:47. Chelanga, whose 10,000-meter PR of 27:08 is the NCAA record, became a U.S. citizen in August.
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