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Olympian Izzi Batt-Doyle had only just begun grieving the loss of a close friend when she became the third-fastest Australian woman to run a marathon. Batt-Doyle ran a personal best 2:22.59 at Valencia on Sunday, falling short of only Benita Willis and national record holder Sinead Diver on the all-time list of Australians. It was an exhilarating moment of the 29-year-old’s distance running career that also gave her automatic qualification for the world marathon championships in Tokyo next year.
Asked where she drew motivation from at that point of the race, Batt-Doyle said she had no shortage of reserves with the memory of her friend. “To be honest, there are a lot of factors for why you might finish a race, but just thinking about Bailey got me through and I know he would have been really proud of me regardless of my result,” she said. “He’d be absolutely frothing if he saw the Strava file and saw that average pace. “So yeah, it was for Bailey and that really got me through yesterday.
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