Make New York Post a Preferred Source She lit the wrong kind of spark.
A Texas influencer who went viral for running the New York City Marathon with a shirt advertising herself to suitors as a single mom with “bad judgment” has been disqualified from the race for accepting a puff of weed from a stranger on the course.
Andrea Sager said the bad news was delivered this week — but she doesn’t regret taking the toke since she already has the coveted finisher medal in her hand and a few thousand new followers on her Instagram.
“Just go have fun! Do something that is fun, getting laughs and making people smile,” Sager, 35, told The Post Friday.
Road Runners, the organizers behind the marathon, wiped Sager’s entry from its finisher’s board on Tuesday, telling the lawyer from Houston that she violated its Code of Conduct explicitly banning smoking tobacco and marijuana products.
The mom of two tried to dispute the disqualification, arguing that her nearly six-hour finish time made her far from a serious athletic contender and that she had raised thousands of dollars for charity for her chance to run the race.
But she ultimately was forced to accept their decision — especially considering her hearty puff was caught on video with her bib and bright pink T-shirt emblazoned with her dating ad on clear display.
“I mean, I get it. It’s annoying, but they didn’t ask for the medal back and I’m getting a lot of coverage, I’m talking with the brands now, so there’s a lot of upside, but still annoying,” Sager said.
But if she had the chance to go back in time and continue running past the kind pothead, Sager emphasized she “wouldn’t change a thing.”
“I wasn’t planning on smoking weed on the course, but I was in so much pain and needed something to help me finish,” the first-time marathoner said.
Sager had gone viral in the wake of the 50th Big Apple race for her hot pink shirt bearing a message to interested men.
“Andrea, 35, Single. Great Credit. Bad Judgment” read the front, while the back warned: “Looking for a man with more endurance than my ex.”
Dozens of men approached her on the race course, and hundreds more have since poured into her DMs, but none yet have been interesting enough for the increasingly popular runner to fit them into her busy schedule.
The shirt was more for fun anyway, she says, considering her everyday life as a single mom and a working lawyer means she’s “all business all the time.”
“I just wanted to have fun with it because I’m so hardcore all the time,” Sager said.
“And now it’s turned into a lot of opportunities. So honestly, I can’t be mad. I understand they have rules.”
She’s considering breaking the viral T-shirt out again in the coming weeks for a Houston race to narrow down her pool of suitors to a local base, she said.
In the meantime, she’s taking the DQ from the marathon in stride.
“It just means that we might have to just run another marathon!” Sager said.
