No American women in Top 10: Emma 2:27:14, Sara 2:27:58, Des 2:28:27, Jenny 2:31:39

Don’t forget the trials were not that long ago. Not very many athletes want to race another marathon so soon after, much less the top Americans who qualified.

Right now, the American ladies are generally deeper and more significantly competitive than the men on the international stage, but not today in Boston.

Disappointing from Emma. The rest are on the sunset of their careers, and Jenny is a middle distance runner just having some fun in retirement.

Yeah, highly entertained that she bravely held off the masters runners.

Looking forward to multiple teary eyed posts over the next 6 weeks from E. Bates and D. Scott! Perhaps both will finally leave!

With exception of Bates, they're old old. They ran pretty good in my book. My apology to Simpson for doubting her.

Pyrrhic "win" for Emma but it's her comeback race, give her a break.

I think all things considered, Sara did the best.

Emma is coming back from injury but she’ll be disappointed. Will look forward to the race recaps.

Jenny is 37 so not that ‘old’ for marathoning. She just may not have the needed range. Sara Hall was much stronger at that age.

On the whole it’s 40+ where the decline starts to happen.

Once she gets a few more of these races under her belt, she’ll probably be 2:26+. Not going to make a team but still have fun and sneak up on folks having a bad day.

Maybe a WC team before she hits 40 a la D'Amato.

Maybe American women should quit targeting major marathons and instead target Turkey Trots and lesser marathons?

And we'll still have people bashing on American men for being so bad. The women are equally far back from winning meaningful races. On fast courses our top women are running 2:18-2:22, but the top women in the world are running 2:11-2:15 on fast courses. The American men are running 2:07-2:09, but the top men in the world are running 2:01-2:04. But for the women there isn't as much competition, so if you limit Kenya/Ethiopia to three runners each and some of them drop out it opens up the door for slower runners.

No Olympic trial Marathon for Emma Bates due to stress fracture, correct? I recommended backing off training. I recommended hiking, cycling, swimming. I recommended a slow build up to 2028 Olympic trial Marathon. Nothing but down arrows from clowns on here.

American marathoners suck. We have to deal with that. Maybe Greg could identify as a woman and we might have a chance.

+1

I think she benefits from having very little pressure on her to perform, in comparison to Hall/Huddle/Linden and the rest of the "old" crowd. Nobody expects a 1500 runner who was barely even competitive at 5k to do anything big in the marathon. This was a good result though and she could very well sneak her way into a team.

Not a bad result. A nice pay day/weekend and proving to herself and others that she can do this at an elite level. However, having said that, with the depth of the American women right now, exactly which US team do you think she’ll make????

US records being broke left and right. Too bad everyone has access to cheat shoes.

You have a generation of Kenyans in the wing ready to "die for the constitution" as we speak. Why don't you Americans stop pretending and go out and get them? You are rich enough, you could easily buy up all the glory. You can even get them to change their names as part of the deal. And given we no race isn't real, the whole world is just Americans-in-waiting anyway!

The main issue you have is a lack of "relegation zone". The British sorted this out by increasing the prison pipe line, and re-populating the area that became Australia. Perhaps you could organize a swap program. Where for every top quality Kenyan you receive, Kenya receives 10 Dechauntavius III's. I can't see the Kenyans will be happy about it, but that's what armies are for, right?? USA! USA! USA!