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Why we are happy that Molly Huddle will race the 2018 Boston Marathon

Larry Ederby Larry Eder
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Molly Huddle is one of the finest distance runners of her generation. She is tough, meticulous and focused. I have watched her race from the mile to the marathon. What she has done with her coach, Ray Treacy, is fascinating to watch. How will she do in Boston? It will be exciting to see, with Shalane Flanagan, Desi Lindan and Jordan Hasay battling Molly in Boston in April 2018.

Each runner is so different and so fascinating.

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Molly Huddle has a near perfect stride and gait. She is the female version of Garry Bjorklund, (check him out on You Tube). Garry had a near perfect stride.

Molly Huddle to race @bostonmarathon. Molly Huddle has completed her move from track to marathon! It was August 2010, and the Birmingham DL meeting had finished. I was with Mark Bossardet, then VP of Sports Marketing at Saucony, and Molly Huddle. Molly had not been happy with her race and was going to stay in Europe another ten days, get in couple of races, including the 5,000 meters, hopefully, in Memorial Van Damme Meeting in Brussels. Molly knew she was fit, she just needed some more racing to get a fast 5000 meters. Finishing ninth, Molly ran 14:44.76, the AR for 5,000 meters. Molly would set the 5,000m record once again, in 2014, this time in Monte Carlo and the Herculis Meeting, battling fellow American Shannon Rowbury to the very finish, running a 14:42.46 on July 18, 2014. In 2016, Molly Huddle took the 10,000m AR with a fine 30:13.72 at the Rio Olympics, after having won the 5000m and 10,000m in the US Olympic Trials. She finished off 2016 with a 2:28:13 third place in NYC Marathon. 2017 was about fast half marathon, doubling in London World Champs and winning the Abbott 5k Dash in early November. Now, Molly Huddle will be part of the finest field assembled, of American woman marathoners, with Shalane Flanagan, winner of 2017 NYC Marathon, second placer from Boston Desi Linden, and Molly Huddle. I am already calling this a race for the ages. Molly Huddle’s perfect distance is the marathon, and while she is much earlier in her career than Shalane, Desi, or Jordan Hasay, watch out! April 2018 will be amazing! #bostonmarathon, #baa, #abbottwmm, #saucony, #runyourworld,

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I always knew Molly Huddle was tough. That ability to push oneself within an inch of faltering for 25 or 12.5 laps is an acquired talent. In 2014, in Sacramento, I recall Shannon Rowbury taking the lead with less than 100 meters to go, and one wondered if Molly Huddle could over take her. Somehow, somewhere inside Molly Huddle, she choose to win that race and battled back to take the title in the very last meters, to win the 5000m title. I knew Molly was tough, but then, I knew Molly Huddle was fierce.

Huddle_MollyFV-USAout14.jpgMolly Huddle and Shannon Rowbury, photo by PhotoRun.net

In Boston this coming spring, we may should see a race for the ages. The way these fine athletes show respect for each other, and respect for our sport, is by giving the race all that they can. What will be left from the supreme effort? Vapor?

In the story, Concentrate on the Chrysanthemums, Kenny Moore, long time senior editor for Sports Illustrated, wrote about racing the Fukuoka Marathon in 1971. While he was there, he caught a fever, and had this amazing dream:

“In a dream I found myself at the start of the Olympic 5,000-meter final. I had trained in secret for years, preparing for this single race. I tore through the first mile in four minutes even, pulling to a huge lead. In the second mile, despite the pain, I surged harder, responding to the astounded, howling crowd, and ran it in 3:58. Over the last few laps, when I should have dropped, I began to sprint, lapping the earth’s best runners, lowering the three-mile world record by a minute. In the stretch, amid the torture of the effort and the screams of the multitude, I delivered the limit of my energy and all my body’s chemical bonds burst. Only a wisp of vapor crossed the finish line, leaving my nylon shirt folded across the tape.

When I awoke, my fever was gone.”

Women’s running has come of age. American women’s distance running is in a special era. With the likes of Shalane Flanagan, Jordan Hasay, Molly Huddle and Des Liden, Boston 2018 should be an amazing race. These women are role models for all. They are trying to find their limits, and they love what the do!

Molly Huddle will run a fantastic race in Boston. The challenge is for us to wait those three plus months.

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  • Larry Eder

    Larry Eder has had a 52-year involvement in the sport of athletics. Larry has experienced the sport as an athlete, coach, magazine publisher, and now, journalist and blogger. His first article, on Don Bowden, America's first sub-4 minute miler, was published in RW in 1983. Larry has published several magazines on athletics, from American Athletics to the U.S. version of Spikes magazine. He currently manages the content and marketing development of the RunningNetwork, The Shoe Addicts, and RunBlogRun. Of RunBlogRun, his daily pilgrimage with the sport, Larry says: "I have to admit, I love traveling to far away meets, writing about the sport I love, and the athletes I respect, for my readers at runblogrun.com, the most of anything I have ever done, except, maybe running itself." Also does some updates for BBC Sports at key events, which he truly enjoys. Theme song: Greg Allman, " I'm no Angel."

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