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COVID-19 did its best to slow down NAZ Elite this year, so the team and its head coach decided to speed things up.

Sara Hall became the second fastest American woman to run a marathon in taking the female title in 2:20:32 in the Marathon Project race in Chandler, Arizona. The Rio 2016 Olympics 10,000-metres runner Wodak placed fourth in only her second marathon and the first she has contested since 2013, lopping nearly nine minutes off her previous time. “I was nervous and anxious because I haven’t raced a marathon in seven years and it was unfamiliar and uncharted territory for me. I wondered if my body could handle it,” said Wodak, who has begun a 14-day quarantine after crossing the border back...

Get our free newsletter Success! You're on the list. Whoops! There was an error and we couldn't process your subscription. Please reload the page and try again. Processing… When Keira D’Amato crossed the finish line at the Marathon Project race in Arizona this past Sunday in second place, she wasn’t thinking about how her time of two hours, 22 minutes, and 56 seconds made her the seventh-fastest American woman to run a marathon on a record-eligible course. She wasn’t thinking about all the professional runners she beat. D’Amato, an elit...

Six Final Thoughts About The Marathon Project: 2:09 Isn’t 2:09 Anymore, Des Linden Says America Needs to Join the 2:19 Party, & More December 22, 2020 The Marathon Project is in the books, and with it, the 2020 racing season. It was an event American marathoners (and marathon fans) were desperate for after a year rocked by COVID-19, and it was a staggering success. Nothing can replicate the energy, importance, and emotions of the Olympic Marathon Trials held earlier this year, but this was the closest an American event has come to those feelings since that blustery day in Atlanta 10 months ...

Even worse for Levins’ prospects, fellow-Canadian Ben Preisner of Milton, Ont., ran under the standard in an all-time Canadian fourth-best 2:10:17 to become the third Canadian to breach the qualifying standard. That means all three Canadian spots for the Olympic marathon are filled. But only provisionally. Levins, or anybody else, has until the June 3 cut-off to beat the times posted by Preisner, in just his first marathon, Tristan Woodfine of Cobden, Ont., (2:10:15 at London in October) or Trevor Hofbauer of Calgary (2:09:51 last year). Marathons, however, are hard to find with so many can...