Hall, 38, enters the race with an eye on breaking Deena Kastor’s American marathon record of 2:19:36, set in 2006 in London. Hall dropped out of the 2020 Olympic marathon trials but returned in October to finish second in the London Marathon. She ran a 2:20:32 — the second-fastest time by an American woman — in December at The Marathon Project in Chandler, Ariz.
Galen Rupp and Sara Hall headline the Chicago Marathon fields as the race returns in October after being canceled in 2020
