Photo: Mark Moreve for Virgin Money London Marathon By then, it was clear Huddle was not having her best day and Sisson was left to cruise the latter half of the race in no-man’s land. Midway through, the top guns finally picked up the pace. It’s good practice to adjust your plan in the middle of the race when it doesn’t go how you expect.”

That helped the first half feel really comfortable. “ to have a bunch of people try to catch me and pass me and then I’d fade. I think looking back, I made the right call,” Sisson said. “We didn’t want to run faster and start leading, so we adjusted the plan. The top women, who were expected to take off at 2:17 pace, opted not to run with the pacemaker, which slowed down the entire field. history.Ī post shared by Emily Sisson women were prepared to run between 2:21 and 2:23 at the London Marathon-but the race did not go according to plan. It’s also her third headline-making race of the year: In January, she ran five seconds off the American record at the Houston Half Marathon (1:07:30) and, in March at the Stanford Invitational, became the third-fastest 10K runner (30:49) in U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials so far (behind Hasay and Amy Cragg). woman (just off Jordan Hasay’s debut of 2:23:00) and she’s the third-fastest qualifier for the US. Her run is the second-fastest debut for a U.S. Her most recent accomplishment was an incredibly successful marathon debut-a sixth place finish at the London Marathon in 2:23:08, a time that makes her the seventh-fastest American woman ever. She hoped to match her training partner, 27-time national champion Molly Huddle, in races-eventually.īut that eventuality is happening now, as the 27-year-old stacks up a pristine competition record in 2019. Emily Sisson is not one to get ahead of herself.įrom what her coach Ray Treacy told her, she figured she’d be good at the marathon-eventually.

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