Can We Predict How Fast Kim Smith and Kara Goucher Will Run in NYC?
“Predicting how someone will debut in the marathon is never an easy task,” say our colleagues over at “Running Times.” But they try and do so anyway, looking at the past times of 10,000-meter stars tackling 26.2 miles. Kim Smith actually will be the third fastest female 10,000-meter runner ever to run the New York City Marathon. Click on “More” to see some educated guesses about Smith’s and Goucher’s outcomes on Sunday. More Mary Wittenberg Thinks ‘Running Should Be Our National Pastime’ This is the busiest week of the year for a woman who ONLY has busy weeks. New York Road Runners President and CEO Mary Wittenberg is the second of three ‘Idea Makers’ profiled at the link at “More,” and there’s a good summation of how she got to this point (she grew up in Buffalo as the oldest of seven children, and later trained with the men’s cross country team while she was a law student at Notre Dame). The NYRR budget grew by 50 percent in her first two years at the helm. “We need to make some big
