She came fourth at the high profile Great Edinburgh Cross Country in early 2012, but suffered an ankle injury which, alongside Lyme disease, ultimately curtailed her season and caused her to miss the Olympic trials. That year she married her husband Dillon Gracey, who also served as her coach. She began to heal towards the end of the year and ran a leg of the International Chiba Ekiden, anchoring the American team to third in the rankings behind the perennially strong Kenyan and Japanese teams. In her last race of 2012 she won the Zatopek Classic 10,000-meter run on her debut for the distance.