By Erin Strout, Women’s Running
Within about 60 minutes on Sunday morning in Houston, the American women’s distance records were rewritten when Sara Hall finished second in the half marathon in 1:07:15 and Keira D’Amato won the Houston Marathon in 2:19:12.
Hall’s new American record, came 15 years after she watched her husband and coach, Ryan Hall, set the men’s national record on the same course, which still stands. D’Amato is now the fastest U.S. woman ever at the distance.