Batt-Doyle's run also lowered her own personal best by two minutes and 21 seconds, capping a race she described as a model of control.
Every 5km block landed between 16:36 and 16:47, holding her at about 3:19 to 3:21 per kilometre from the opening kilometres to the final stretch. She went through halfway in 1:10:29 and ran the second half in about 1:10:09, a 20-second negative split. Her quickest split, 16:36, came between 35km and 40km, and she covered the last 2.2km at about 3:14 per kilometre once she sensed the record was hers.
Paced by her fiancé, Riley Cocks, Batt-Doyle spent much of the race isolated between groups. "[We were] isolated the whole race," she said. "The gun went off and second kilometre it was just the two of us, because we were running between groups."
Conditions were warmer than ideal for marathon racing. Batt-Doyle said she prepared by hydrating heavily beforehand and splashing water over herself at every opportunity. "There is a small hill about 400 to go, and then you turn into the last 150 metres, and I saw the clock and that's when I really started celebrating," she said.
"I'm very, very happy. I feel a sense of relief, because it's something I really felt I could achieve and it's been on my mind the past couple of years," she said. "It was quite emotional. You can think you can do it and hope you can do it, and be on pace to do it, but there is so much that can happen in the last 5 kilometres, or last 1 kilometre or even the last 400 metres."
Batt-Doyle said she was proud to join previous Australian record-holders including Stenson, Sinead Diver and Benita Willis, and described the result as validating for the hard work she has put in.