under water

The Olympic qualifying standard is 2:18, and if that time was used by Canada, both McInnes, a radiologist at the Ottawa Hospital, and Giitah Macharia, a Burlington, Ont., resident, would have been off to Beijing in August. However, at Harry Jerome he ran a brilliant tactical race that saw him biding his time slightly off the blistering lead pace set by Ryan Mackenzie and Kevin Sullivan who were trying to help Nate Brennan the Olympic A standard. Molly came into the race as the third seed and, along with Shalane Flanagan, Kara Goucher and Katie McGregor, was one of only four women to have run under the Olympic “A” standard prior to the trials. Her world class time of 31:27 — run