LA goal clear as Batt-Doyle sets the Sydney pace

After a Paris selection "debacle" Izzi Batt-Doyle has made her stance clear as the two-time Olympian prepares to set the pace in the Sydney Marathon.

Fresh off recording the fastest half marathon by an Australian woman on home soil on the Gold Coast six weeks ago, the 30-year-old will pace current world champion and Tokyo gold medallist Peres Jepchirchir through the first 25km of Sunday's picturesque 42.2km course.

One of six Australians to meet the qualification standards for the 2024 Games, Batt-Doyle was a controversial omission from the three-woman team.

Instead she qualified for the 5000m on the track for a second-straight Games, missing the final by one place.

The Adelaide talent, who boasts a two hours, 22 minutes and 59 seconds marathon personal best, has put her track duties on hold though.

She ran April's Boston Marathon and is set to lace them up in Chicago in October.

"Unless something happens like the last selection debacle and I'm forced into doing something else," Batt-Doyle told AAP, outlining her LA 2028 marathon desires.

"This time around I'll position myself to be a lead player from very early on.

"But also, we had six girls under the standard (for Paris); I don't think this will be the case this time around, the way people come in waves at this distance and the qualifying time (being lower)."

Batt-Doyle has paced an elite field before, but never in Australia or in Sydney, where the marathon is now considered one of the world's eight majors.

"I'll be wearing a pacing bib but people will be cheering for me and thinking I'm winning and then wondering why I stopped," she smiled.

"But it's good for me as a training run, and just to experience what it's like to be at the front of a major.

"I can take away a lot of confidence if I do that job and do it well."

A day after Batt-Doyle's Gold Coast effort, fellow Australian Haftu Strintzos blew away the men's marathon field to set a new national mark of 2:06:20.