About that Top 10 goal...

...about being Top 10 US runner...  I'm assuming it's highly doable since it's a "destination" marathon for people travelling from the US, and not a "race".   

Granted, last year they had all time record heat for that day, but, to prove this I still present to you evidence #1: Last year's top 20 US based finishers.

Men
Pos.	Name	Born	Team/Country	Bib	Time
51	Ulf Andre	67	USA	341	2.45.46
1926	Ted Bowler	75	USA	17482	3.38.56
2081	Jesper Alfredsson	72	USA	10932	3.40.40
2159	Michael Lederer	76	USA	3328	3.41.45
2465	Tomas Tjärnberg	74	USA	2903	3.45.11
2649	Stephan Wheeler	64	USA	4560	3.47.12
3012	Bill Fuller	47	USA	2889	3.50.50
3220	Steve Thomas Kirk	78	USA	11587	3.52.50
3225	Mark Scheel	75	USA	3326	3.52.53
3227	Kurt Graham	74	USA	7475	3.52.53
3290	Matthew Jr Connors	67	USA	2330	3.53.24
3738	Paul Zimmerman	51	USA	3325	3.57.29
4071	Cliff Congo	74	USA	6052	4.00.54
4578	Russell Campbell	64	USA	17771	4.07.20
4739	Soren Stig-Nielsen	53	USA	4912	4.09.02
5359	Justin Wolfers	72	USA	10864	4.15.08
5402	Darren Middlesworth	68	USA	16509	4.15.26
5584	Joel Thompson	78	USA	7552	4.17.36
6315	Peter Bennett	74	USA	2807	4.25.18
6653	Ronald Ayers	67	USA	4956	4.28.48

Looking a little deeper into last year's finisher's list*, only 217 out of about 14,000 finishers ran under 3 hours. (1.55%)

* This should be a much higher number if the weather cooperates.