2 weeks Ago By Ben Sutton
Channel 7 commentator Abbey Holmes has been overcome by emotion after completing her first marathon in New York City. Holmes posted a video of herself crossing the finish line of the gruelling 42.2km race.
In the video, Holmes wipes away tears as she realises the enormity of her achievement. “Speechless. Proud.
The emotion on that finish line hit me reeeeaal hard. I am a marathon runner !!🥹🫶🏼❤️,” she captioned the video . In the text across the video, Holmes said it was all worth it.
“POV: You just crossed the finish line for your first marathon ...
in NYC!” She wrote. “You never ever thought you’d do one ..
. and now you are part of the one per cent club. “It was all worth it.
” Holmes, who hosted the red carpet at this year’s Brownlow night, juggled her TV commitments this year with training for the marathon. The day before the event, Holmes explained how she “loved the challenge”. “It’s been a journey .
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But with one sleep to go we’re at the start line 🙏🏼,” she wrote on Saturday. “The early mornings, the runs I don’t have time for but find ways to do them anyway. The missed gym sessions, the guilt.
The good gym sessions. “The learnings, the growth. Feeling great, feeling bad.
The ups the downs. This year has been fab and I’ve loved this challenge! Thank you to everyone who has got me here ..
. you know who you are 🥹🫶🏼 xx” Meanwhile, Abdi Nageeye and Sheila Chepkirui have powered away with strong kicks in the final stages to win the New York City Marathon titles for the first time Sunday. Nageeye, who became the first runner from the Netherlands to win the men’s race, was step-for-step with 2022 champion Evans Chebet before breaking away into Central Park for the final time to finish six seconds clear in 2 hours 7 minutes 39 seconds.
“At the finish I was like, ‘am I’m dreaming? I won New York’,” Nageeye said after Sunday’s triumph. He had run the New York race three times before with his best finish coming in 2022, when he was third. Chepkirui was running New York for the first time and pulled away from defending champion Hellen Obiri in the women’s race in the last stretch.
“Let me push the last mile, let me give it my best,” the Kenyan said. “When we were around 600 metres to go, I said to myself I have to push harder. When I saw Hellen wasn’t coming, I knew I was going to win and was so happy.
” Chepkirui, who started to run marathons in 2022, won in 2:24.35, with Obiri, who’d been trying to be the first back-to-back champion since Mary Keitany of Kenya won three in a row from 2014-16, nearly 15 seconds behind. Vivian Cheruiyot finished third, making it a podium sweep for Kenya.
- With AAP.
