Lewy-Boulet Continues To Open Gap In Olympic Trials Marathon

Posted April 20th, 2008 at 9:01 AM by Jimmie R. Markham

Section: News & Results, Marathons

US Olympic Trials - Women's Marathon Magdalena Lewy-Boulet was running a 2:30:24 marathon pace through mile 6. The Polish-born immigrant who became an American citizen on 9/11/01, was running this race in honor of the thousands of her compatriots who died that day. She had a 1:18 lead on the chase pack. Coming up on mile 7, one who have expected Kastor to have made a move by now. She had indicated before the race that her primary goal was to make the team, but that she wanted to win, too. The pack was on a 2:34 pace while Lewy-Boulet’s was around 2:30. The trail pack was down to about 12 women at this point. Included in that pack were Elva Dryer, Blake Russell and, or course, Kastor.

At mile 8, which was passed in 45:38, Lewy-Boulet had a 70-second lead on the trail pack. She was running slightly faster than her personal best of 2:30:50. By the time the chase pack reached what would be the finish line on this 4 loop course, Lewy-Boulet had an 81-second lead.

Running 51:28 through 9 miles, Lewy-Boulet was slowing a bit, having run the last mile in 5:50. Even so, she now had an 86 second lead. Kastor was still tucked right in the middle of the chase pack. A couple of Hansons-Brooks singlets could be seen in this pack.

Lewy-Boulet passed 10 miles in 57:10, a 5:42 last mile, on pace for a 2:29:53. Blake Russell, Deena Kastor, Elva Dryer were all in the chase pack. The gap was now 1:32.

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