I saw an amusing video clip where she is surrounded by athletes in buns, AlphaFlys, $300 worth of Tracksmith and Saysky gear, sponsor kit, etc. and Courtney's rolling in her trademarked short sleeve tee and basketball length shorts looking like a Crossfitter that entered on a lark. I wonder how many of these runners had no idea who she is and blew up because they weren't going to get beat by some local gym rat?
What kind of dumb question is this? I'm sure that most sub elite women know who she is.
FWIW, she was on pace through 30K, then slowed to 6:07 pace by 35K and kept slowing from there. By 35K, she was about 20 seconds behind and would have needed to run 5:51 pace the rest of the way to qualify.
Close or not, it was a hell of an effort. Good for her for taking it on and I hope she takes another shot next year.
Courtney Dauwalter narrowly misses OTQ time at CIM. Really good performance from her. I bet if she was wearing a better shoe than a Salomon she would’ve got it.