The Marathon Project proved to be anything but a work in progress.
A pandemic-created replacement for World Marathon Majors cancelled this year in Boston, Chicago and New York, the elite race Sunday on a flat loop course in Chandler achieved its desired speedy results.
Just 11 weeks after finishing second at the London Marathon, Sara Hall of Flagstaff became the second fastest American women's marathoner in 2 hours, 20 minutes, 32 seconds and Keira D'Amato seventh fastest (2:22.56).
Martin Hehir, a medical student and health care worker during the COVID crisis, ran the seventh fastest American men's time (2:08.