Khalid Khannouchi Is Back. Way back.

23 elite runners took part in the Healthy Kidney 10k in Central Park on Saturday. Former WR holder Khalid Khannouchi launching his much anticipated comeback to road racing finished 21st in 30:31, just ahead of insomniac Bobby Curtis and miler Jon Rankin. He will be cleaning up the 34-39 age group awards, but that's about it.

The Black Cactus ran pretty well for 6th and the top american spot.
Mo Trafeh, now running for NIKE took 8th. 5th -9th places were separated by just 6 seconds.

The course record was taken down for the 3 time in 4 years, so Gebre took the $20k CR bonus, along with the $7500 first place cash.
27:42 in Central Park is no joke.

 1    Gebre Gebremariam          25  ADID  Ethiopia   27:42 $7500 + $20k CR
 2    Peter Kamais               33  ADID  Kenya      27:49 $5000
 3    Julius Kogo                24  WTC   Kenya      28:19 $3000
 4    Chris Thompson             29  OTC   Great Br   28:25 $2000
 5    Alistair Cragg             29  ADID  Ireland    28:33 $1250
 6    Abdi Abdirahman            33  NIKE  AZ         28:35 $750
 7    Ben St. Lawrence           28  NEWB  Australi   28:36 $600
 8    Mohamed Trafeh             25  NIKE  CA         28:37 $350
 9    Ed Moran                   28  NIKE  VA         28:39 $250
10    Shadrack Biwott            25  OTC   Kenya      28:57 $100

Lots more coverage and photos at http://www.nyrr.org/races/2010/kidney/index.asp.