She ran 3:52 which was a pb
I am mid 30s and run low 16 on 30ish mpw but because I'm a man I am relegated to hobby jogging.
She ran 3:52 which was a pb
I am mid 30s and run low 16 on 30ish mpw but because I'm a man I am relegated to hobby jogging.
I looked her up the other day after reading through the start list. She actually ran a 3:28 at a marathon in Bhutan, so not really a PR, just fastest in a World Athletics-recognized race.
Apparently she's primarily an ultra runner and did a 5 day race recently.
sub 4 marathon wrote:
She ran 3:52 which was a pb
Yet still finishes ahead of the American champion. (x_x)
kirkandorules wrote:
I looked her up the other day after reading through the start list. She actually ran a 3:28 at a marathon in Bhutan, so not really a PR, just fastest in a World Athletics-recognized race.
Apparently she's primarily an ultra runner and did a 5 day race recently.
That's barely 8 minute miles. Outrageous to let a turkeytrotter into a race of this calibre
If you're asking how she actually qualified, she is a universality athlete. They give spots to countries who don't have any other athletes competing in athletics. They can enter the 100m, 800m, or marathon. It's in the spirit of the games.
They greatly limited which events NOCs can enter their universality athletes. I think it’s now just 100, 800 (?), and marathon. Though maybe she’d be their best athlete regardless. I remember seeing her on the coverage, she was ahead of O’Keeffe when they showed the latter limping through the first mile.
You just have to be a citizen of a country that doesn’t have any good athletes, and then you can compete in the Olympics.
I mean Abdalla never ran a marathon before but still debuted at the Olympics, so it's not that unusual
