She has, after all, never run a marathon and will taking her first crack at the distance in London on April 28. To some, it might feel presumptuous to include the 27-year-old Providence College alumna among a list of contenders. They will face formidable competition in the form of multiple national record holder Molly Huddle, 2:20-marathoner Jordan Hasay, as well as runners like Allie Kieffer, Kellyn Taylor, and Sara Hall-athletes who perhaps have yet to reach the limits of their potential.Īnd then there’s Emily Sisson. Though Flanagan’s plans for 2020 remain a mystery (take what you will from this Instagram post), Linden and Cragg will almost certainly be looking to secure another Olympic team spot next February in Atlanta. On the one hand, there’s the old guard: Des Linden, Amy Cragg, and Shalane Flanagan, the trio who all finished in the top ten at the Rio Olympics in 2016. Olympic Trials take place in February 2020, it’s anyone’s guess who will make the women’s marathon team. “I actually think I could have run a little more evenly so I’m already hoping to run another half and even try to run faster.With a little over a year to go before the U.S. “I really wanted to break 67 minutes and I’m happy I did,” Sisson said. She told ABC-13 in Houston after the race that she was really excited about her performance. Some race calculators estimate that based off her marathon time, Sisson’s half marathon should be around 1:06:00. But Sisson, like Gebremaryam, went out at a very fast pace for 5K (15:31) and slowed throughout the race, raising the question of what she could do if she ran a more evenly-paced effort, as she did at the Chicago Marathon. Sisson got her chance in Houston, taking 19 seconds off her old mark.
Last fall, Ray Treacy, Sisson’s coach, told Runner’s World, “I would love for her to have another crack at the half marathon during the wintertime, some kind of really fast half marathon, because she has the record but it’s kind of a soft record, I think. The half marathon record has long been considered slow compared to American records at other distances. These Are the World’s Fastest Half Marathoners.
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