Ready for Redemption

I watched this happen and felt for her, she was running so well. I wish her luck in NYC. From Running Times online…

Ready for Redemption

Kim Smith hopes to put Boston misery behind her at this weekend's NYC Marathon

By Jim Gerweck

As featured in the Web Only issue of Running Times Magazine

After struggling in Boston, Kim Smith is ready to run a solid race in New York.

As Kim Smith readies for her third run in Sunday's ING New York City Marathon, she hopes to forge a new image, one that will replace the one so deeply ingrained in the minds of running fans the world over.

The current edition is one that has joined the pantheon that illustrate the unpredictability and potential cruelty of the 26.2-mile distance, right up there with Geoff Smith collapsing to the pavement after being nipped at the line by Rod Dixon in New York in 1983, or Gabrielle Andersen staggering down the final yards of the inaugural Olympic women's marathon in 1984.


Smith's vignette was sketched this April in Boston, where in the space of a few strides she went from cruising to what could have been a wire-to-wire runaway victory in the marathon to hobbling along as painfully as any mid-packer suddenly struck with a cramp in the closing miles of the race.


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