Her sixth-place finish of 2:27:12 took nearly a minute off her best time, while other notable names finished farther back.
At today’s Boston Marathon, the second World Marathon Major race in the U.S. since the COVID-19 pandemic began, just one—Rojas stayed with the lead pack for much of the race, which was her fourth marathon and her debut in a world major. She even led for several miles, a situation she hadn't planned on, she said afterward. “I couldn’t get out of the front, and that’s not the way I race,” she said.
Slightly after halfway, she was the only American woman left in the pack, as Dakotah Lindwurm, 26, dropped back. When Rojas noticed that, she used it as momentum: “At that point, I was like—my goal is to be top American,” she said. “We have to run a little bit faster so that the Americans don’t catch me.”When Kenya’s Diana Kipyokei—who went on to win in 2:24:45—made her first decisive move at mile 18, Rojas fell back.
Once the pack broke, the race got mentally tough."At 10K to go, I was like, I don’t know how I’m going to move forward at a pace that I need to be going,” she said. But she stayed strong by harnessing the energy of the crowd and running down her competitors. By 40K, she’d moved up to sixth, and stayed there, covering the last mile at 5:33 pace.
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