Brooklyn Mother is Millionth NYC Marathon Finisher What You Need to Know About the Sydney Marathon Kipsang Surges Over Last Mile to Win.

Caroline Wozniacki has impressive debut Why Pros Care About Place, Not Time at NYC reporter reached her at her home in the Park Slope section of the borough of Brooklyn an hour after her finish. To commemorate the milestone, she received guaranteed entry into the What You Need to Know About the Sydney Marathon for life and was given a $500 gift certificate for marathon-related merchandise. On Monday morning, much to her excitement, she had her photo taken with 2014 champions Wilson Kipsang and Mary Keitany and the wheelchair winners, Tatyana McFadden and Kurt Fearnley.

Slingluff, a freelance architectural and interior photographer, admitted “I wasn’t even aware it [the acknowledgement of the million finisher] was going to be given out” until she heard from the Daily News reporter while New York Road Runners personnel were also trying to contact her. “It was an extra surprise and a thrill,” she said.

Originally from Alabama, Slingluff has lived in New York for eight years, and after watching the marathon in 2013, “I considered the race one of the top things I ever wanted to do before I might ever have to move away,” she explained. She’d done the Marine Corps and Disney World Marathons many years ago but does not race regularly. “This was really getting back into the swing of things,” she said of the marathon. Slingluff played tennis and softball in high school but now considers her major exercise to be “carting two children around," ages 3 and 6.

Slingluff was part of the Girls on the Run charity team. Girls on the Run conducts a 12-week curriculum for girls in third through eighth grade, striving, as its website says, to “teach life skills through dynamic, interactive lessons and running games,” culminating with a 5K run and the goal of encouraging “confidence through accomplishment.”

While Slingluff said she isn't sure if she'll use her guaranteed entry for next year's race, she wouldn't rule it out.

"I'd like to think I’d definitely do the honor and run it again," she said. 

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Postrace: quot;Id like to think Id definitely do the honor and run it again," she said

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