Brian Nicholson
Jared Ward was so worried that he wasn’t ready for Sunday’s New York Marathon, he called race officials a few weeks ago to let them know he was considering not racing.
“I had pulled my hamstring right at the beginning of September, and I tried to run a half marathon in the middle of September, and I had to pull out,” Ward told the Deseret News after earning the best finish (6th place) of U.S. men with a time of 2:12:24. “I just missed enough training that I thought, ‘This marathon is not going to work.