Elizabeth Wasserman: 2:45:00 at Boston! Olympic Trials qualifier!

Huge, huge, HUGE congrats to Marist Running Alum Elizabeth Wasserman, who had a monster effort at the Boston Marathon today. Elizabeth ran 2:45:00 and hit the 2020 U.S. Olympic Trials Marathon standard to the second! The standard is 2:45:00. How cool is THAT? Elizabeth went out hard (1:20:01) and hung on for a remarkable four-minute PR. It’s all the more remarkable because she injured her hip in the “gross sleet and slush” of the Celebrate Life Half Marathon last month in Sullivan County, a race she won easily. She had to take a week off and said she could barely run a mile, just a few weeks ago. Miraculously, she nailed this race, and speculated that she may have been able to go even faster with 100 percent training over the final few weeks. Regardless … this was an awesome run and we are so proud of Elizabeth. We always felt she had the ability to move up successfully to the marathon, but who could have predicted that she would get this fast this quickly, just two years after graduating from Marist? It’s awesome. Nicely done, Elizabeth! Thanks to Annie Gould for texting me these pix.