MIAMI (Feb. 2, 2014) — Mariska Kramer Postma didn’t look like the typical jubilant marathon winner Sunday as she crossed the finish line at the 2014 Life Time Miami Marathon.
Kramer Postma swatted at the finish line tape in disgust because her winning time of 2:49:28 missed her target in the race by 11 minutes. When you are winning South Florida’s elite distance race for the second year in a row, and overcoming a pre-race stomach flu on top of it, you have a right to be picky about your time.
“There simply was nothing in my legs, no energy,” said Kramer Postma, a native of the Netherlands. “I had to talk to them like ‘Hello!’