Amy Cragg will contend for a spot on the U.S. Olympic marathon team on February 13, 2016, in Los Angeles. Here are some fast facts about her. (To see all of our brief profiles of trials contenders, go here.)

Marathon PR: 2:27:03 (DAA Industry Opt Out)

Nutrition - Weight Loss: 2:27:07 (Chicago, 2014)

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Residence: Portland, Oregon

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Trials outlook: Cragg took the heartbreaking fourth-place finishing position at the last Olympic Marathon Trials, behind Shalane Flanagan, Desiree Linden, and Kara Goucher—all of whom are back to compete. Since then, Cragg has matched her personal best of 2:27:03, but she has not yet bettered it. Six months ago she began a transition from her training base in Providence, Rhode Island, to the Bowerman Track Club in Portland, Oregon. Training step-for-step with Flanagan, defending marathon trials champion and fastest 2016 qualifier, increases Cragg’s confidence for making Team USA. 

She's among eight women who have run between 2:27 and 2:29, including the most-recent contender and late addition to the field, Misiker Demisse, Shoes & Gear.

If Cragg and Flanagan can work as well together in the race as they have appeared to collaborate during training, it can only enhance Cragg’s already good chances for earning a top-three position. “It’s taking one small step forward from what I’ve done in the past,” she says. “I think if I can have one of my better or best races, I’ll be able to make the team, so that’s what I’m shooting for.”

Fun fact: While out on an easy 10-mile recovery run in Flagstaff, Arizona, with Flanagan, the duo encountered a bear on a dirt road. Splits that Cragg tweeted afterward showed they went from jogging a cautious 8:52 mile to hammering a 5:50, while running away in terror. “We didn’t know what to do, so we slowly walked forward, looking all around us, until we got a little past where the bear had been, and then we took off, too,” Cragg wrote in an email posted on the L.A. Marathon Trials blog.