![]() ![]() “I’m pretty confident in my last 10K now and I think I’m getting stronger. Kiplagat, the same-time-as-Cragg London Worlds silver medalist, has run 2:19:50 and has five races of 2:21:52 or faster on her résumé. She trains with ace clubmate Shalane Flanagan when their schedules sync, and Flanagan’s best is 2:21:14. She ran 2:27:17 to place 4th at the ’12 Olympic Trials race, another 2:27:03 at Chicago ’14, 2:28:20 in the miserably hot-weather ’16 OT win and 2:27:18 for her medal-effort in London last summer, a tactical chase as champs competitions often are.Ĭomparisons with women who’ve been around her suggest Cragg and a new PR are ready for a meeting. But, yeah, it’s definitely to try and run a very big PR.”Īfter running 2:27:03 out of the box in her debut marathon back in ’11, Los Angeles, Cragg, now 34, still seeks the ceiling-smashing time she believes her legs are ready to bring out. I think I’ve been in shape to run a lot faster than my current PR before.”Īs her “training gets closer ,” Cragg explains, ”we’ll have a more specific time in mind. And then Cragg outlegged two-time world champ Edna Kiplagat 7:04–7:12 over the final 2.195K to finish with both awarded the same time at the line.įor Tokyo this month, Cragg says, “Really, the biggest goal is to run a PR. women’s marathon medalist at a World Champs in 34 years-Cragg closed from 30–40K in 34:22, but the second half of that segment, her 16:27 split for the 35–40K portion of the race, told the more revealing tale. So this year it’s more about just trying to run fast, trying to cut some time off my PR, and I think that will lead to big things in 2020, hopefully.” ”I think we accomplished both of those things, however I still have a slower PR than most of the women I line up against every marathon. Start working on that and then also get better at closing over the last 10K. We decided to do that one with the goal of putting myself in contention for a medal. “Worlds was decided because it was the last championship race I would be able to do before Tokyo. “It was kind of after Rio that we started talking about the next 4 years, what I needed to improve upon and kind of what I needed to do to reach the next level,” Cragg tells T&FN, outlining the game plan she and Bowerman TC coach Jerry Schumacher are working from. She plans to make her next move-strategic step 2 since Rio-mostly coincidentally, in the Japanese capital at the Tokyo World Marathon Majors stop in less than 3 weeks (February 25). Amy Cragg, ’17 World Championships bronze medalist, Olympic Trials winner in ’16 and 9th-place finisher in Rio, is playing the marathon leadup to the Tokyo Olympics like a 4-year chess game. ![]()
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