It feels like Houston or bust for Canadian record holder Natasha Wodak if she wishes to race her third Olympic marathon on Aug. 11 in Paris.
Sure, an April marathon (Boston?) could serve as a last-chance qualifier should she not run the two-hour 26-minute 50-second automatic entry standard or faster at 8 a.m. ET Sunday in Texas, but it isn’t a road she wants to travel.
“My body will not recover in time for the Olympic marathon [if I race in April]. I’m not saying it’s out of the question, but it would be challenging,” Wodak said this week from her Vancouver