Update on Kara Goucher: No go on London
by Doug Binder, The Oregonian
Tuesday April 21, 2009, 9:03 PM
I had a text exchange with Kara Goucher tonight (I'm at the Blazers game) and she wrote that she will not run in the London Marathon next weekend.
She ran and felt good today, but after discussing the possibility with her coach, Alberto Salazar, they determined it was not in the long-term best interest of Goucher's ultimate goal, which is to win the 2012 Olympic Marathon in London.
Goucher, who finished third in the Boston Marathon on Monday, was torn between putting her peak fitness to more use or taking a different plan going forward, which may involve a try at starting a family with husband Adam Goucher.
I'll post more later. Back to work on basketball.