Paula Radcliffe, Jordan Hasay, Joan Benoit Samuelson, photo by David Wearn for Chicago Marathon
Jordan Hasay has only been running marathons for less than a year. It was last January, 2017, that Jordan Hasay opened our eyes with her supurb half marathon in 1:08:45. In April 2017, Jordan Hasay took third in Boston with a fine 2:23:00 debut! Jordan Hasay had found her event. Her strength, her speed, her size all added to her ability to compete with the toughest women in the event!
And then, Jordan Hasay put her head down and ran this amazing marathon in Chicago in October 2017. Her 2:20:57 broke the CR of Joan Benoit Samuelson. There is this wonderful picture of Jordan Hasay with Paula Radcliffe and Joan Benoit Samuelson from Chicago. Jordan Hasay showed some serious racing focus as she stayed up front with Tirunesh Dibaba, and running a 2:18 pace for the first ten miles. Her gutty finish, running and staying on a 2:20 marathon pace for so long, opened many eyes.
Jordan Hasay, photo by PhotoRun.net, January 12, 2018, Houston Presser
And now, Jordan is focused on the 2018 Boston Marathon. Face it the Boston Marathon in 2018 has one of the finest women’s fields of all times and the finest American women’s field of all times, with Huddle, Flanagan, Linden, Hasay, Kastor, among others.
This weekend, January 13-14, Jordan Hasay is dueling in Houston over the Aramco Half Marathon course. How fast will she run? We will just have to wait and see! And that should be fun!
