Lindwurm was a little disappointed with her 14th-place finish at Boston this year. Sellers has finished second at Boston before so she’s legit, but she also has a 17-month-old daughter, Emery, who she hugged as soon as she crossed the line. I thought my best-case scenario would be around a 2:26, and I was under that today, so I was really happy with it.” “I knew Dakotah was really strong, and if she was going to run in the 2:24ish-range, then she deserved it. “It’s a big benefit running with someone in a marathon, but you kind of have to make that gamble of letting them go and thinking, ‘Either I’m going to catch them later or they deserved to beat me,” Sellers said, laughing. While she reeled in the latter two and gained ground on Lindwurm, Sellers never did catch sight of the leader. Sellers backed off the lead pack of Lindwurm, Esther Wanjiru and Molly Bookmyer only three miles in and ran her own race. They were just trash at that time, but I just had to hold it together to give myself a shot.” “I’ve never experienced anything like that, where every step I might fall. “I nearly slipped away in that last mile,” Lindwurm said. Lindwurm did just that but as soon as she made the turn off Superior Street and headed back to Canal Park any chance of breaking the record was gone with the headwind. I changed my mind and said, ‘I’m not going to tell myself I can’t. I actually have a coffee cup that has that Lift Bridge on it and I drink from it every single morning. “But by 18 miles you see that Lift Bridge, it’s so big, it’s so beautiful. There’s no way I’m hanging onto it,’” Lindwurm said. “At 18 miles I was five seconds under the record, but I was going through a rough patch right there and my initial thought was, ‘I can’t do it. Kellyn Taylor’s blazing 2:24:28, set in 2018 when the course went along Michigan Street due to downtown construction, will retain the event record, considered the bigger prize as the difference between those two courses is a matter of splitting hairs. Officially, Lindwurm will now hold the Grandma’s Marathon original course record as the race returned to Superior Street for the first time since 2017 due to construction. That is four times more than the $5,000 she received for the COVID-crimped 2021 race. With incentives, Lindwurm netted $20,000 for the victory, some of which she said was going to student loans from her days running at Northern State. “It’s the first time he’s ever got to watch me race, and winning was amazing, but crossing that finish line and going straight into his arms, I can’t even stop tearing up over it,” Lindwurm said.
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