Josh Cox won the Arizona Rock 'n' Roll Marathon on Sunday, then kept on going to smash his American record for 50 kilometers by 3 minutes, missing the world mark by just 7 seconds.
Cox completed the 31.2 miles in 2 hours, 43 minutes, 45 seconds after finishing the marathon in 2:17:32 to beat Solomon Kandie of Kenya by 1:08.
"Seven seconds is hard to swallow," Cox said. "But I'm happy. The American record is nothing to hang your head about."
Thompson Magwana of South Africa set the world record in 1988.
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