Ray ranks 'em - women's distance (US)

Yeah, this is definitive, so what? You sayin' my lists aren't the final word? Ha!

Okay, so distance, for my purposes, is defined as 5k/10k. Anything longer than that stands on its own (besides, this is a track blog, and we don't run a lot of half marathons on the track, right?).

1. Shalane Flanagan
2. Kara Goucher (woman doesn't have her own website - how is this possible?)

3. (and way behind those two) Lauren Fleshman
4. Jenn Rhines
5. Sara Slattery

Goucher is a really, really close second - these two will tussle for the next few years. My hope is we'll see them trade American Records for a while. We need a rivalry! Flanagan needs to start going all McEnroe on the track; throwing punches when people pass her or something. I'm also leaving off some serious talents that may be moving up the list in the next year - Arianna Lambie, Molly Huddle, maybe Alicia Shay when she gets healthy again.