Article: As the great unknown, Lewy Boulet found her place

US WOMEN'S OLYMPIC TRIALS / On road racing

For more than two hours yesterday morning she was in her own world, her own race. The gun was fired on Boylston Street and Magdalena Lewy Boulet sprinted off by herself and stayed there for more than 23 miles. Around the Common, up Commonwealth Avenue, over the Harvard Bridge, and along Memorial Drive.

"That's not Deena," a bystander at MIT observed.

If any woman was going to run away from the pack at the Olympic Marathon Trials, it figured to be Deena Kastor, the Olympic medalist and US record-holder, whose qualifying time was a dozen minutes faster than anyone else's. Instead, here was a mystery guest with shades, a bare midriff, and a long braid ...

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