The expectations of a long-deprived nation pale in comparison to the demands Kara Goucher made of herself going into yesterday’s 113th Boston Marathon.
Following her third-place finish at New York last November, Goucher assumed Deena Kastor’s place as America’s best hope to end the foreign dominance of the world’s oldest marathon. The United States hadn’t produced a winner in Boston since Lisa Larsen-Weidenbach broke the tape in 1985.
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Duluth East High School graduate Kara Goucher, fighting to become the first American to win the Boston Marathon women's division in nearly a quarter-century, held the lead for several miles late in the famed 26.
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