The thread on the BEST runner to have NEVER won a title inspired me to ask this question...
A couple ways you could angle this question:
1) What runner had the least impressive career before winning an individual title, but still somehow managed to get it (irrespective of their career after the title), OR
2) What runner won an individual title, then proceeded to have a spectacularly unimpressive NCAA/pro career?
Not looking to hate on people... just a curiosity.
Surely there's some people that won a title and then fell off the face of the earth... not really what I'm trying to get at here, but I'd be interested to hear if you can think of someone like that.