Kara Goucher to Run the 2009 London Marathon?
Try to imagine that you have an honest chance of winning the Boston Marathon.
You run the marathon, and there are still 8 women in the lead pack past 20 miles because the pace is so slow (remember, you have an honest chance of winning!)
Then imagine that you are outsprinted in the last mile to finish 5 seconds behind the winner and 4 seconds behind 2nd place. You ran a great race, but you fell a little short of your own expectations.
What is your first thought?
If you said, “Kick back and party, then go run the London Marathon in 6 days,” then you just might be Kara Goucher…(video after the break)
After finishing the race, Kara immediately began petitioning her coach to get her into London. She felt like she only ran a hard 10k following the relatively easy 20 miles and she thinks that she’s up for it.
I don’t know how great that would be for her body or continuing career, but since she is probably going to take a year or two away from competitive running afterwards anyway so that she can start a family she could probably pull it off given the way that the race went yesterday.
All I can really say is…it would be a whole lot of awesomeness if she went out there and won.
(Photo Credit: Roger Morse – Video Credit: FloTrack)
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April 21st, 2009 at 4:52 pm
Kara is my hero! That one girl collapsed, and Kara was just walking away from the finish line…
April 21st, 2009 at 8:05 pm
Now that would be cool to see Kara run London!
Nice story and nice pic Blaine,
–Steve
April 21st, 2009 at 9:28 pm
You can thank Roger Morse for that photo!
With such a large lead pack I couldn’t get any good pictures of Kara yesterday since she was in the middle of the pack on the far side of the street.
Got some good shots of Ryan Hall, though, and of Sheri Piers.
April 21st, 2009 at 11:47 pm
Let’s not forget Wes that the “girl” who collapsed beat Kara. And won last year.
Kara just wasn’t the best out there that day. She wasn’t entitled to win and she didn’t. You shouldn’t take anything away from the performances of the other competitors
April 22nd, 2009 at 10:39 am
I was cheering from home and I was so disappointed that Kara didn’t win Boston…
But I was very proud of Dire Tune for whom I cheered last year. I think she ran a great race despite the rivality and tense atmosphere between her and Bekele – I was hoping she would beat, her and she did… eh eh
April 22nd, 2009 at 10:42 am
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