BOSTON (07-Nov, Race Results Weekly) — Not even a full year into her professional running career, reigning USATF 10,000m champion Sydney Vaught already feels the pull of the sport’s longer distances. The 23-year-old former Arkansas Razorback, who sees her future in the marathon, will step-up to the half-marathon distance for the first time this Sunday at the Boston Half, America’s most prestigious fall half-marathon, organized by the Boston Athletic Association, founders and organizers of the Boston Marathon.
“Honestly, I have always just been super-interested in running kind of the longer distances that you don’t see in the NCAA,” Vaught told Race Results Weekly in a telephone interview last night. “Even just growing up I had always wanted to run a marathon and try half-marathons.
“I think that I handle the mileage really well, and so I just kind of test the waters and see where things are at. Someday I want to be more serious about the half-marathon, the marathon, so kind of having an earlier start and getting some experience under my belt I think is the whole thought process.”…