Duluth East High School bachelor Kara Goucher is in go along with home mid a crowded leading position number this morning in the Boston Marathon as the women are well into the assist half of the famed 26.2-mile race. Goucher, 30 and a 2008 Olympian in shorter distances, is to each several women vying for maiden place, according to the example piece from marathon embrace center: "The surprising Masters sprinter Colleen De Reuck, 45, of Colorado, has regained the be conducive to in the women's spillway [at about Mile 17]. Kara Goucher is in right hand place." Goucher now lives in Portland, Ore., and trains under bygone Boston men's champ Alberto Salazar.
She made her marathon debut at finish fall's New York City Marathon and finished third all women in 2 hours, 25 minutes and 53 seconds, the best patch by an American maid in that race's history. She elected to hit to the marathon reserve after the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, where she was ninth at 5,000 meters and 10th in the 10,000. The earlier American mistress to secure Boston was Lisa Larsen-Weidenbach, in 1985. If Goucher wins the 113th event of the Boston Marathon, she earns $150,000.
Goucher graduated in 2001 from the University of Colorado with a limit in psychology, having grown up in Duluth. She is married to wizard messenger and 2000 Olympian Adam Goucher. They school with the Nike Oregon Project.
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