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The 2022 TCS New York City will be professional runner Emma Bates’s seventh time racing 26.2 miles. However, between a second-place finish in sweltering conditions at last year’s Chicago Marathon, and a new personal best of 2:23:18 and a seventh-place finish at the 2022 World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Oregon this past July, Bates has proven that she knows how to stick her nose in it to get the best out of herself in competition. Just six days out from New York, she chatted with Women’s Running about her goals for the race, how she’ll use the less-than-ideal conditions (temperatures are expected to be in the mid- to high 60s with high humidity at the race start) to her advantage, how she’s adjusted to training with Team Boss (the Boulder-based elite group coached by Joe Bosshard, husband to steeplechaser and team member Emma Coburn), and what she’s…