Rapid improvement has earned Goodrich High grad Erin O'Mara berth in U.S. Olympic Women's Marathon Trials
Published: Monday, December 05, 2011, 2:22 PM Updated: Monday, December 05, 2011, 2:23 PM
By Bill Khan | Flint Journal The Flint Journal
At first, Erin O'Mara's motivation for running faster marathons had nothing to do with qualifying for major events or winning races.
After taking 4 hours, 8 minutes and 8 seconds to complete the 2006 Detroit Free Press Marathon, the 2002 Goodrich High graduate knew she never wanted to take that long to endure 26.2 miles of running again.
"When I finished that race, one of the first things I said to my family was I was definitely going to do it again, but I was going to run a lot faster, because that was too long to be out there," O'Mara said. "At that point, I remembered thinking I'd trained a lot and done all the work. The more you run, the more you realize you probably didn't train that much for it, which is why I ran well over an hour of what I run now."
Read on here<http://blog.mlive.com/flintjournal/runners/2011/12/erin-omara-120511.html>.
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