Sonia’s fairytale ends in New York
After clocking a slow time of two hours 32 minutes and six seconds O’Sullivan admitted her appetite for marathons has disappeared.
Experience, or a lack of, ultimately proved her undoing in her first race of this magnitude. O’Sullivan, who looked impressive in the early stages, simply had no answer to the skills and patience of eventual winner Joyce Chepchumba of Kenya who broke all of her rivals at 22 miles and won in 2:25:56. By then O’Sullivan was a spent force having fallen out of contention at 16 miles.
