Maine’s own long-distance runner Joan Benoit Samuelson will be trying out once more for the Olympics on Sunday. She’s not expecting to make the U.S. team again, as she told The New York Times: "Oh, God, no. It’s just me against me. I want to run 2:50 at age 50." That’s two hours and 50 minutes for the 26.2-mile course.

Mrs. Samuelson, who won the first Olympic marathon for women in 1984, is running an hour or two a day in preparation for this year’s trials in Boston. She used to run 120 miles a week, but she told The Times, for an article published last Sunday, "Now I’m down to 70 or 80."

"I run maybe a dozen races a year, but I haven’t run a marathon since 2005," she said. "I’m slow, not fast. Some days I run faster. I used to plan my day around running. Now I plan running around my day."