On her 41st birthday, the veteran marathoner placed second American—and raised funds for women in Ethiopia.
On her 41st birthday, Sara Hall completed her third Boston Marathon in 2:27:58, finishing 15th overall and second American. Although it’s about 2 minutes slower than the 2:25:48 she ran here last year, the effort comes just slightly more than two months after Hall’s fifth-place finish at the Olympic Marathon Trials, where her time of 2:26:06 was an American masters marathon record.
The funds will provide micro-loans for women in Ethiopia, and Hall is matching donations until she reaches her $50,000 goal. Hall and her husband, Ryan, have spent significant time in Ethiopia and adopted four daughters from the country in 2015. “It’s something I think about every day, just the extreme poverty there and in so many places in the world,” she said. “No matter what I do, whether it’s running or anything else, I want to continue to bring justice to these areas.
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