He competed on the American summer circuit of road races in 1992 and placed in the top three at the Cascade Run Off, Peachtree Road Race, Utica Boilermaker and Bix 7 Road Race. He also won the Parkersburg Half Marathon in a personal best time of 62:34 minutes. The following year he was third at the Hastings Half Marathon and Humarathon, but a return to the United States was less successful. Further half marathon wins in Parkersburg and Orlando, Florida saw him selected for Kenya for the 1994 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships. He achieved a lifetime best of 61:01 minutes, which although it did not quite bring him a medal, the in fourth-place finish led a Kenyan team of Shem Kororia and Andrew Masai to the team title. At the end of that year he was runner-up at the Arturo Barrios Invitational and third at the Tulsa Run.