![]() ![]() I can take this downhill and kind of go into it and then finish the race quick.'" "Once we hit the downhill, I recovered really quickly and I think that's when was I like, 'I'm good to go. "I was feeling it a little bit and I was, 'Maybe I should back off," Van Ord said of the start. But Van Ord moved into first as the course turned left into Washington Park and picked up steam on the steep downhill heading toward the Lake House. On Saturday, 2016 Olympian Marielle Hall took the early lead in the race's uphill start on Washington Avenue. So I decided to take this summer as like just doing some shorter races and just having some fun and doing something different." "But I didn't want to do two more because that would be a lot. "I decided to do this race because I did the Houston Marathon and I knew I wanted to do maybe one more marathon before the (Olympic) trials," Van Ord said. It was a major cutdown in distance from January's Houston Marathon, where she was the first American woman to finish and fourth woman overall. Van Ord, an Appalachian State graduate, was running her first Freihofer's. Cardin and Blaney are teammates with the Hansons-Brooks Original Distance Project, based in Rochester Hills, Mich.ĭiane Ryan, 41, of Ballston Spa successfully defended her master’s division title in 18:03. ![]() She was followed by Jessie Cardin of Sutton, Mass., in second in 16:00, closely followed in third by Anne-Marie Blaney of Ocala, Fla., in 16:02. ![]() At the very end, I was like, 'Just keep going.'" "I was like, 'OK, they're not cheering for anyone else, so I think I'm good.' Honestly, coming down that hill, I could get passed. "I started hearing people's cheers, like maybe 50 meters (from the finish), and they were like, 'You got it, you got it!!" Van Ord said. Van Ord, 28, said she wasn't confident of victory until the final 10 meters in the cool, drizzly conditions. ![]()
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