We sat down with Bates to find out how she trains for and recovers from big races-and big wins like her day in Boston-and how she stayed so strong, straight through the finish. Her strategy paid off in a 2:22:10 finish and a personal best. “And he said, ‘just go for it.’” Bates only fell behind the pack in the final few miles, still looking strong, with a solid stride, proud posture, and an ease to her steps. “I got to mile 20 and I was still in the lead, and I just looked at my coach who was at mile 20, and was like, ‘I guess I’m in the front,” she said at the press conference after her finish, shrugging. The plan for Boston wasn’t to stay with the lead pack on Monday-in fact her coach told her not to-but she did for the majority of the race because she felt so great. So, it is a risk going either way, but that’s the way that I feel most comfortable and most confident, running my own race.” “But I think that if I were to have tried, I might have DNFd or slowed down a lot and maybe not have placed as well as I had. “I was kind of left behind the front pack, and then I was never able to catch back up,” she said.
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