Taking third was Andrea Seccafien. She finished in the time of 33:02, while Sexton had clocked a 32:25. For Seccafien, the race put a cork on her season. It is time to go back to school.
The Guelph, ON native now lives in Melbourne, VIC. She is the Canadian 10,000m and half-marathon record holder having run 31:13.94 and 1:09:38 to take two of Wodak’s former national records. Seccafien has been injured off and on for two years and has struggled to regain the form she displayed in 2020 and 2021. But it is not over.
The 33-year-old packed in a rush weekend having raced the Sun Run and then headed to the Vancouver airport to fly back to Melbourne to start orientation on Monday for law school, which she begins this week. “An athletics career can be short, so I need to have a career as well and it is time, but I am not done with running yet,” shared Seccafien, who will likely seek a career in corporate law. In March, she attempted the Olympic standard in the Tokyo Marathon but retired before halfway. It was her debut and a lot to ask of herself having gradually worked her way back into race fitness.
